Dick Meyer Biography
Dick Meyer is Scripps’ Chief Washington Correspondent and the author of Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium. He previously worked as Executive Producer for the BBC’s American news services and Executive Editor for National Public Radio.
Dick Meyer Age
Meyer was born in Glencoe, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, United, States of America.
Dick Meyer Education
He earned a bachelor’s degree in religion from Columbia University in New York in 1980, followed by a master’s degree in politics from the University of Oxford in 1982.
Dick Meyer Wife
He lives in the Washington DC metro area with his wife and two children.
Dick Meyer CBS News
Meyer began his media career in 1985 as an election-unit researcher for CBS News, later covering the 1988 presidential campaign as an off-air producer and filing reports for CBS Radio News. He worked at CBS News for nearly twenty-three years, eventually becoming a producer for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and then the editorial director of CBS News Online. Meyer joined NPR as Editorial Director for Digital Media and was instrumental in growing the organization’s digital journalism and unifying the broadcast and digital newsrooms. He was NPR’s Executive Editor, in charge of supervising the network’s on-air and online news operations around the world. Meyer was the Executive Producer for the BBC’s news services in America, overseeing the editorial content of BBC World News America.
He also advised on the strategy and production of additional BBC news material in the United States, such as the 24-hour news channel BBC World News and BBC World Service radio productions for US audiences. Meyer is presently working on DecodeDC, a new multi-platform feature produced by the Scripps Washington Bureau, as well as writing about Washington in general.
Meyer Awards
Meyer has received several awards, including the Alfred I. du Pont-Columbia University Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, and the Sigma Delta Chi Society of Professional Journalists Award. Meyer was honored by North Shore Country Day School with the Francis R. Stanton Alumni Recognition Award in 2011.
Dick Meyer Net Worth
Meyer has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.