Philip Meyer

Professor of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Professor of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age; former Director of News and Circulation Research for Knight-Ridder

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The reports coming in from American newsrooms are ominous: budget cuts, staff layoffs, rollbacks in reporting and falling circulation, with a slump that's hitting newspapers and…

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