Eric Meyer (Professor)

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Eric K. Meyer is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also is assistant dean for academic and administrative affairs with the university's College of Communications.

1 Early life and career
2 Academic life
3 Awards
4 Published works
5 See also
6 External links
7 References

[edit] Early life and career

Meyer was born August 23, 1953, in Marion, Kansas. His first newspaper was the Meyer Message, which he created as a child. He photocopied the homemade newspaper and distributed it to residents of his neighborhood.

Meyer worked as a Sunday edition editor, assistant news editor and reporter for Illinois' Bloomington Pantagraph from 1975 to 1977, and later as a news photo and graphics editor, assistant news editor, systems editor, copy desk chief and reporter for the Milwaukee Journal, now the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel from 1977 to 1994.

Meyer is president and majority owner of Hoch Publishing Co., publisher of Marion County Record, Hillsboro Star-Journal and the Peabody Gazette-Bulletin. He is the third of three family generations of newspaper ownership.

He is former owner of NewsLink, an online resource to national and international news publication Web sites, including resources to newspapers, magazines, radio, television and blogs.

[edit] Academic life

Designing Infographics

Meyer is a former adjunct lecturer at Marquette University and has been an associate professor of journalism at the University of Illinois since 1993. His primary duties include teaching information graphics, page layout and design, and online journalism.

Meyer earned a bachelor of science degree in journalism from the University of Kansas in 1975 and later earned a master of arts degree in journalism from Marquette University in 1998.

Meyer and associate professor of journalism Nancy Benson earned first place in the Professor Newspaper Publishing Awards competition for their 2004 I-Elect publication, a student journalism convergence project that incorporated newsprint and online publication, and radio and television broadcasts, in an effort to examine and solve university student voter apathy.

The competition was sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

[edit] Awards

Meyer was nominated for the Pulitzer prize in 1983, and is winner of 10 major regional or national awards for reporting, editing, photojournalism and design.

[edit] Published works

Executive producer, Project on the State of the American Newspaper (1998-2000).
Co-publisher, American Journalism Review online (1996-2001).
Author, Designing Infographics (1997)
Author, Tomorrow's News Today: A Guide to Strategic Planning for Online Publishing (1995-2000, nine editions)