# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-meyer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:37:11.070Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-meyer"
name: "Philip Meyer"
slug: "philip-meyer"
description: "Philip Meyer was an American journalist and scholar who was a professor and holder of the Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He researched in the areas of journalism quality, precision journalism, civic journalism, polling, the newspaper industry, and communications technology. Meyer received his undergraduate degree in technical journalism from Kansas State University (1952), a master's degree in political science from Chapel Hill (1958) and was a non-degree Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (1966–1967)."
tagline: "American journalist and scholar (1930–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Meyer110719a.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1930-10-22"
deathDate: "2023-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.21
  momentum:             5.294117647058822
  historical:           5.672426666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Meyer"
    title: "Philip Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A)"
    title: "فيليب ماير (صحفي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "فيليب ماير (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Meyer"
    title: "Philip Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Meyer"
    title: "Philip Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Meyer"
    title: "Philip Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3901469"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump