Background
Meyer, Eric Kent was born on August 23, 1953 in Marion, Kansas, United States.
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Designing Infographics
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Eric Kent Meyer
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Education
Bachelor of Science, U. Kansas, 1975; Master of Arts, Marquette U., 1997.
Career
He is also a former associate dean for academic and administrative affairs with the university"s College of Media. His first newspaper was the Meyer Messenger, which he created as a child. He photocopied the homemade newspaper and distributed it to residents of his neighborhood.
Meyer earned a bachelor of science degree in journalism from the University of Kansas in 1975 and earned a master of arts degree in journalism from Marquette University in 1998.
From 1975 to 1977 Meyer worked as a Sunday edition editor, assistant news editor and reporter for Illinois" Bloomington Pantagraph, 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. His primary duties include teaching information graphics, page layout and design, and online journalism.
He also is associate dean for academic affairs and administration in U of I"s College of Media. 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.
Meyer is president and majority owner of Hoch Publishing Company, publisher of Marion County Record, Hillsboro Star-Journal and the Peabody Gazette-Bulletin.
He is the third of three family generations in the newspaper business.
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Membership
President Spring Terrace Homeowners, Milwaukee, 1981-1983. Member Society Professional Journalists (board directors Milwaukee chapter 1995-1996, treasurer), Society Newspaper Design, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (member Executive Committee newspapers division since 1997).
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Son of Otto William Junior and Joan Aileen (Wight) M. Divorced; 1 child, Nathaniel Jeremy Meyer-Gleason.
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Republican