June 13, 2009
My current resume is available online at pmeyer.web.unc.edu/resume
Philip Meyer
Present
Position
Professor
Emeritus,
Previous
Positions
Knight
Chair in Journalism Professor,
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
to write Precision Journalism).
Reporter, The
Graduate
Assistant and Part-time Instructor (Political Science),
Reporter,
Editor, Kansas
State Collegian, Spring semester, 1952
Reporter,
Reporter,
Education
Awards
Inducted
into
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
Chair,
Grantham Prize Jury, 2006-
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
"The Elite
Newspaper of the Future," American
Journalism Review, October-November, 2008
“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
“Giving Objectivity a Bad Name,” The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media, October 1, 2007.
“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
55 “Forum” columns in