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Philip Meyer is professor emeritus and former holder of the Knight Chair in Journalism at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...
. He researches in the areas of journalism quality, precision journalism,
civic journalism Civic journalism (also known as ''public journalism'') is the idea of integrating journalism into the democratic process. The media not only informs the public, but it also works towards engaging citizens and creating public debate. The civic jo ...
, polling, the newspaper industry, and communications technology. Meyer was a
Nieman Fellow The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University awards multiple types of fellowships. Nieman Fellowships for journalists A Nieman Fellowship is an award given to journalists by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University ...
in 1966–1967. Before becoming a professor in 1981, Meyer was employed in the newspaper industry for a total of 26 years, the last 23 with
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, where he started as a reporter for the ''
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''. In 1962, he became the Washington correspondent for the ''
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'', then a national correspondent, and finally, from 1978–1981, the director of news research at company headquarters in Miami, where he worked on Knight Ridder's
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online service. One of the earliest examples of
computer-assisted reporting Computer-assisted reporting describes the use of computers to gather and analyze the data necessary to write news stories. The spread of computers, software and the Internet changed how reporters work. Reporters routinely collect information in dat ...
was in 1967, after riots in Detroit, when Meyer, on temporary assignment with the ''
Detroit Free Press The ''Detroit Free Press'' is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, US. The Sunday edition is titled the ''Sunday Free Press''. It is sometimes referred to as the Freep (reflected in the paper's web address, www.freep.com). It primari ...
'', used survey research, analyzed on a mainframe computer, to show that people who had attended college were equally likely to have rioted as were high school dropouts. The National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting hosts the annual Philip Meyer Journalism Award, which "recognize excellent journalism done using social science research methods". Meyer was a member of Board of Contributors for
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's Forum Page, part of the newspaper's Opinion section. The Summer 2008 Carolina Communicator includes a profile of Meyer, written by one of his former students, John Bare.


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