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Philip Meyer

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Professor Emeritus
 
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
919 906-3425
pmeyer(at)email(dot)unc(dot)edu

Courses

Research

Publications

Full CV

Web sites

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Courses

            Fall 2007

• Special Topics Seminar, JOMC 890.1

           Spring 2008

• Advanced Reporting, JOMC 453.001

Research Interests

• The Quality Project
• Precision Journalism
• Public/Civic Journalism
• Polling
• Communication technology
• Newspapers
• Ethics
• Full CV in outline form

CARSTAT: Computer assisted reporting

• CARSTAT Web Site

Publications

• The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age, 2004
  
• reviews and ordering information
  
 
• Precision Journalism, Fourth Edition
• order from Rowman & Littlefield (2002)
  
• view the previous edition (1991)
 
• Ethical Journalism: a Guide for Students, Practitioners and Consumers, 1987
  
  
• And others...

 

Criticism

• Laying the Newspaper Gently Down to Die
• Philip Meyer should have stopped when he was ahead
  
• Wake up, Prof. Philip Meyer -- You're Dreaming
• Philip Meyer and the Emperor's New Clothes
• Invisible Ink
  

Personal Interests

• Family

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Articles and interviews available online

• The Future of Journalism, Sydney Australia  (video 2008)
• Saving Journalism (2004)
  
• Opinion Without Polls: Finding a Link Between Corporate Culture and Public Journalism, (with David Loomis), International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 2000.
• Tuttle Creek Dam: A Case Study in Local Opposition  (M.A. thesis, 1962)
  
• Making a Difference: Covering Campaign '96, a report on the Poynter Election Project, by Philip Meyer and Deborah Potter
• Public Journalism and the Problem of Objectivity, based on a talk given to the IRE conference on computer assisted reporting in Cleveland in September 1995.
• Why Journalism Needs Ph.D.s (1996)
• Learning to Love Lower Profits (1995)
• The Future of CAR (1999)
• If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably (1970)

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Other Web sites of interest

At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...

• Meyer profile in Endeavors Magazine: "Fixing the News"
  
• The School of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Journalism Library and Research Resources
• Web-search advice (originally for JOMC 141 students)
• Institute for Research in the Social Sciences

And elsewhere...

• "Classic CAR" stories
• SPSS (statistical software)
• Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE)
• The National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting
• The 1997 Nashville CAR conference
• SPJ's The Electronic Journalist