Meyer, Philip 1930- (Philip Edward Meyer)

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Meyer, Philip 1930- (Philip Edward Meyer)

PERSONAL:

Born October 27, 1930, in Deshler, NC; son of Elmer Edward (a sales representative) and Hilda (a homemaker) Meyer; married Sue Quail (a homemaker), August 5, 1956; children: Caroline, Katherine Meyer Lucente, Melissa, Sarah. Ethnicity: "White." Education: Kansas State University, B.S., 1952; University of North Carolina, M.A., 1963; Harvard University, additional graduate study, 1966-67. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Episcopal. Hobbies and other interests: Photography.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Chapel Hill, NC. Office—School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3365. E-mail—philip_meyer@unc.edu.

CAREER:

Topeka Daily Capital, Topeka, KS, assistant state editor, 1954-56; Miami Herald, Miami, FL, reporter, 1958-62; Knight-Ridder Newspapers, correspondent in Washington, DC, 1962-78 (including contributions to Detroit Free Press), director of news and circulation research in Miami, 1978-82; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, 1981-93, Knight Professor of Journalism, 1993—. Military service: U.S. Naval Reserve, active duty, 1952-54.

MEMBER:

World Association for Public Opinion Research (president, 1993-94), American Association for Public Opinion Research (president, 1989-90), Society of Professional Journalists.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Public Affairs Reporting Award, American Political Science Association, 1960; Nieman fellow at Harvard University, 1966-67; as a contributor to the Detroit Free Press shared Pulitzer Prize for general local reporting, 1968, for covering the Detroit riots of 1967; Sigma Delta Chi Award for research about journalism, Society of Professional Journalists, 1974, for Precision Journalism: A Reporter's Introduction to Social Science Methods; lifetime achievement awards, National Press Foundation, 1994, and American Association for Public Opinion Research, 2000.

WRITINGS:

Precision Journalism: A Reporter's Introduction to Social Science Methods, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 1973, 4th edition, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 2002.

(With David Olson) To Keep the Republic: Governing the United States in Its Third Century, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), 1975, 2nd edition, 1978.

Editors, Publishers and Newspaper Ethics: A Report to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, American Society of Newspaper Editors (Washington, DC), 1983.

The Newspaper Survival Book: An Editor's Guide to Marketing Research, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 1985.

Ethical Journalism: A Guide for Students, Practitioners, and Consumers, Longman (New York, NY), 1987.

The New Precision Journalism, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 1991.

(Editor, with Edmund B. Lambeth and Esther Thorson) Assessing Public Journalism, University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 1998.

The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age, University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 2004.

(Editor) Newspaper Ethics in the New Century: A Report to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, American Society of Newspaper Editors (Reston, VA), 2006.

(Editor and author of introduction) William F. Woo, Letters from the Editor: Lessons on Journalism and Life, University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 2007.

Contributor to journalism magazines, and to Public Opinion Quarterly, Esquire, and Playboy.

SIDELIGHTS:

Philip Meyer told CA: "Our fragile democracy needs an informed and interested citizenry in order to survive. All of my books have had the purpose of preserving and improving journalism."