October 12,
2007
Philip Meyer
Present
Position
Knight Chair
in Journalism Professor,
Previous
Positions
William Rand
Kenan Jr. Professor of Journalism
and Mass Communication,
Director of
News and Circulation Research,
Knight-Ridder, Inc., 1978-1981
Director of
Market Research, Viewdata
Corporation of America, Inc., 1979-1981
National
Correspondent, Knight-Ridder, Inc.,
Washington, D.C., 1967-1978
Project
Director, Russell Sage Foundation, New
York City, 1969-1970 (on leave from Knight-Ridder).
Reporter, The
Graduate
Assistant and Part-time Instructor
(Political Science),
Reporter,
Editor, Kansas
State Collegian, Spring semester, 1952
Reporter,
Reporter,
Education
Awards
Sigma Delta
Chi Distinguished Service Award for
Research About Journalism (with Scott Maier) 2005.
Fellow of the
Society of Professional
Journalists, 2005
Professional
Freedom and Responsibility Award,
Award, Newspaper Division, Association for Education in Journalism and
Mass
Communication, 2004
AAPOR Award
for Exceptionally Distinguished
Achievement, American Association for Public Opinion Research, 2000
Newspaper
Association of
National
Press Foundation Distinguished
Contributions to Journalism Award, 1994
Carr Van Anda
Award for Enduring Contributions
to Journalism,
Sigma Delta
Chi Distinguished Service Award for
Research About Journalism, 1974
Shared (based
on temporary assignment to cover
the 1967
Citation for
Outstanding Interpretation of
Education, Education Writers Association, 1960
Public
Affairs Reporting Award, American
Political Science Association, 1960
University
Service
Tenure and
Promotion Committee,
Academic
Affairs Institutional Review Board,
1998 - 2000
M.A. Program
Coordinator,
Administrative
Board, Institute for Research in
Social Science, 1983-1988
IRSS Review
Committee, 1988
Committee of
Kenan Professors, 1985-1988
Hettleman
Prize Committee, 1987-1989
Administrative
Board, School of Journalism,
1982-1987
Other
Activities
Treasurer and
founding member of the board of
directors, The North Carolina Center On Actual Innocence, 2000 - 2003
University
Ministry Committee, Chapel of the
Cross (Episcopal), 1999-2001
Board of
Contributors,
Trustee,
President,
World Association for Public Opinion
Research, 1993-1994. Council member, 1991-1996.
American
President,
American Association for Public
Opinion Research, 1989-1990; member executive council, 1982-1991.
Board of
Directors,
Editorial
Board, International Journal of Public Opinion Research,
1988-1999
Tom Selleck
Visiting Fellow in Media Ethics,
Senior
Fellow,
Member,
American Newspaper Publishers
Association Readership and Circulation Committee, 1984-1990
Member,
Editorial Board, Public Opinion Quarterly, 1981-1987
American
Political Science Association
Congressional Fellowship Program Advisory Committee, 1981-1996
Editorial
Board, Newspaper Research Journal, 1980-1992
Trustee,
Bureau of Social Science Research,
Washington, D.C., 1976-1986
President,
Council for the Advancement of
Science Writing, 1976-1977. Member, 1971-1980
Member,
National Research Council Panel on
Privacy and Confidentiality as Factors in Survey Response, 1976-1978
Director,
Seminar on Social Research Methods
(funded by National Science Foundation through CASW),
.
Other
Professional Associations
Association
for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication, Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative
Reporters
& Editors
Clubs
National
Press Club,
Military
Service
Active duty,
1952-1954, with assignments at
Naval Air Training Command, Pensacola, Fla., and Atlantic Fleet
Amphibious
Force, Little Creek, Va.
Family
Married to
Sue Quail,
Roots
Born October
27, 1930,
Selected
Bibliography
Books
Editor,
William F. Woo, Letters from the
Editor: Lessons on Journalism and Life,
The
Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age,
Editor, Assessing
Public Journalism, with Edmund
Lambeth and Esther Thorson,
Ethical
Journalism: a Guide for Students, Practitioners and Consumers, Longman,
Inc., 1987.
Portugese translation, A Etica No
Jornalismo, Rio de Janiero: Forense
Universitaria, 1989.
The
Newspaper Survival Book: An Editor's Guide to Market Research,
To
Keep
the Republic: Governing the
Precision
Journalism: A Reporter's Introduction to Social Science Methods,
Monograph
Editors,
Publishers and Newspaper Ethics: A Report to the American Society of
Newspaper
Editors,
ASNE,
Articles in
Scholarly Journals
“In Memoriam:
Leo Bogart, 1921-2005,” Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol.
70, No.
1, Spring 2006.
"Quantifying
Newspaper Quality: I Know It When I See It" (with Koang-Hyub Kim), Newspaper
Research Journal , Winter 2005.
"The
Influence
Model and Newspaper Business," Newspaper Research Journal,
Winter
2004.
"Above-Average
Staff Size Helps Newspapers Retain Circulation" (with Minjeong Kim), Newspaper
Research Journal, Vol. 24 No. 3, Summer 2003.
"Learning
Reconsidered: Education in the Digital Age," Journalism Educator,
Winter 2003 (with Everette E. Dennis and others).
"Talking the
Talk:
Expressions of Social Responsibility in Public Newspaper Groups" (with
Diana Knott and Virginia Carroll), Newspaper Research Journal,
Winter 2002.
“Opinion
Without Polls: Finding a Link Between
Corporate Culture and Public Journalism,” (with David Loomis), International Journal of Public Opinion
Research, Autumn 2000.
"Changing
Values in the News Room,"
(with David Arant), Journal of Media
Ethics, Winter 1999.
"Preelection
Polls and Issue Knowledge in
the 1996
“SAT Scores,
Journalism and Public Policy,” Economics of Education
Review, Vol. 12,
No. 3, 1993.
"After
Journalism" (with Karen
Jurgensen), Journalism Quarterly,
Summer 1992.
"Use of an
Electronic Database to Evaluate
Newspaper Editorial Quality" (with David Arant), Journalism
Quarterly, Summer 1992.
"The
"Beating
Disclosure to Death" (with
Karen Jurgensen), Newspaper Research
Journal, Summer 1991.
"Polling as
Political Science and Polling
as Journalism," Public Opinion
Quarterly, Fall 1990.
"Symposium on
the Work of Samuel
Lubell" (with Alexander Lamis,
"Precision
Journalism and the 1988
Elections in the
"Defining and
Measuring Credibility of
Newspapers: Developing an Index," Journalism
Quarterly, Fall 1988.
"A Workable
Measure of Auditing Accuracy in
Newspapers," Newspaper Research
Journal, Fall 1988.
"The Effect
of Public Ownership on
Newspaper Companies: A Preliminary Inquiry" (with
"Videotex as
a Marketing Problem," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
Communications, February 1983.
"The National
vs. Local News Controversy: A
Behavioral Approach," Newspaper
Research Journal, January 1980.
"The Comic
Strip Problem," ANPA News Research Report No. 24,
November 1979.
"Models for
Editorial Decision Making: The
Benefits of Semi-Formality," Journalism
Quarterly, Spring 1978.
"Elitism and
Newspaper Believability,"
Journalism Quarterly, Spring 1973.
"Journalist,
Friend or Foe?" Public Opinion Quarterly, Fall 1971.
"Aftermath of
Martyrdom: Negro Militancy
and Martin Luther King," Public
Opinion Quarterly, Summer 1969.
Book Chapters
"What Kind of
Journalism Does the Public Need?," in Institutions
of American Democracy: The Press (with Carolyn Marvin),
"The Proper
Role of
the News Media in a Democratic Society: Is It Enough Simply to Cover
the
News?" in Media, Profit, and Politics, Joe Harper and Thom
Hantek,
Eds., Kent State University Press, 2003.
"Research as
a
Media Accountability System," in An Arsenal for Democracy: Media
Accountability Systems, Claude-Jean Bertran, Ed.,
"Introduction,"
Listening and
Learning: Community Indicator Profiles of Knight Foundation Communities
and the
Nation, Knight Foundation, 2001.
"Hidden
Value: Polls and Public
Opinion," in Paul Lavrakas and Michael Traugott, Eds., Election
Polls, the News Media and Democracy
(with Deborah Potter),
"La recherche
comme moyen de rendre les
médias responsables," in Claude-Jean Bertrand, Ed., L'Arsenal
de la Démocratie: Médias, déontologie et M*A*R*S, Paris,
Economica, 1999.
"If It Works,
How Will We Know?," in
Lambeth, et al., 1998 cited above.
"The Media
Reformation: Giving the Agenda
Back to the People," in Michael Nelson, Ed., The Elections
of 1992, Congressional Quarterly, 1993.
"News Media
Responsiveness to Public
Health," in Charles Atkin and
"On the
Impracticality of Applied
Research," in
"Social
Science Reporting," in Proceedings: Education for
Newspaper
Journalists in the Seventies and Beyond, American Newspaper
Publishers
Association Foundation, 1974.
Articles for
Trade Journals
“Organizing
the New News,” Nieman Reports, Fall
2005.
“The
Next Journalism’s Objective Reporting,” Nieman
Reports, Winter 2004.
"Saving
Journalism,"
"Journalism's
Road to Becoming a Profession," Nieman Reports,
Winter 2002.
"Counting
things not easily counted," The American Editor, April 2002.
"The Absence
of Memory Hurts
Journalism," Nieman Reports, Summer 2001.
“Enforcing
ethics through exposure,” Quill, December 2000.
“Evaluating
the Toolbox,” American Journalism Review, March 2000.
“Changing
Values in the Newsroom,” (with M.
David Arant), Nieman Reports, Fall
1997.
“Why We Need
Ph.Ds,” The American Editor, September 1996.
"Learning to
Love Lower Profits," American Journalism Review,
December
1995.
“Defining
Public Journalism: Discourse Leading
to Solutions,” IRE Journal,
November-December 1995.
“Paper
Trail,”
"Moral
Confusion: The What, Why, and How of
Journalism is Changing," Quill,
November/December 1994.
"Accountability
When Books Make News,"
Media Studies Journal, The
"Stop Pulling
Punches with Polls,"
"An Ethic for
the Information Age," Social Responsibility: Business,
Journalism,
Law, Medicine, Vol. XVI,
"Trailing a
Weasel Word: How Arguably Unleased a Flood of
Superlatives,"
"Ghostboosters:
The Press and the
Paranormal,"
"There's
Encouraging News About Newspapers'
Credibility, and It's in a Surprising Location." presstime,
June 1985.
"News Side
and Business Side: Getting Us
Together," Bulletin of the American
Society of Newspaper Editors, July/August 1983.
"A Struggle
with the News Research Puzzle,"
presstime, February 1982.
"What
Videotex Can Learn from
Newspapers," Nieman Reports,
Winter 1981.
"Precision
Journalism in the
"Le
Journalisme de Precision," Trimedia, August/September
1979.
"In Defense
of the Marketing
Approach,"
"The Trouble
with News Research," Bulletin of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors, October 1975.
"The Limits
of Intuition,"
"The Risks of
Interpretation," Bulletin of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors, April 1969.
"Truth in
Polling,"
"A
Newspaper's Role
Between the Riots," Nieman Reports,
June 1968. Reprinted in “a selection of outstanding writing published
in Nieman Reports during the last half of
the 20th Century, Nieman
Reports, Double Issue, Winter 1999/Spring 2000.
"
"Social
Science: A New Beat?" Nieman Reports, June 1967.
Articles
Online
“Readership
vs. Reach: Where’s Leo Bogart When
We Need Him?,” Nieman Watchdog.org,
Feb. 23, 2006.
“Newspapers
Can’t Maintain Monopoly Profits
Because They’ve Lost Their Monopolies, Gradethenews.org,
October 3, 2005.
“Gas Prices
Aren’t At a Record High (Yet) but
Health Care Costs Are,” Nieman
Watchdog.org, August 16, 2005.
“A Correction
on the Matter of Trust in
Newspapers,” Nieman Watchdog.org, May
11, 2005.
“Bush’s
National Guard Service: The
Boccardi-Thornburgh Report Leaves Some Questions Unanswered,”Nieman Watchdog.org, Jan. 12, 2005.
General
Publications
"Do the Polls
Help or Hinder?" Dialogue, United States Information
Agency, (in six languages) 1992.
"The ABC's of
Psychographics," American Demographics, November 1983.
"If Hitler
Asked You to Electrocute a
Stranger, Would You?" Esquire,
February 1970. Reprinted in a number of
textbooks, e.g. Richard Greenbaum and Harvey A. Tilker, eds., The Challenge of Psychology,
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1972.
"Playing for
the Upper Hand," Playboy, April 1969.
More than 50 “Forum” columns in