Josh Meyer is an author, screenwriter, lecturer, and reporter. He has worked for various media and is currently with
Politico
''Politico'' (stylized in all caps), known originally as ''The Politico'', is an American, German-owned political journalism newspaper company based in Arlington County, Virginia, that covers politics and policy in the United States and intern ...
.
Education
According to his profile page at ''Politico'', Meyer is from the Boston area. He has Bachelor of Arts degrees with honors in 1987 from the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...
in Social Thought and Political Economy as well as Journalism.
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Career
He worked at the ''Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...
'' for twenty years until 2010 when he helped launch Medill School of Journalism
The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications is a constituent school of Northwestern University that offers both undergraduate and graduate programs. It frequently ranks as the top school of journalism in the Unite ...
's National Security Journalism Initiative in Washington, D.C., an effort to teach security journalism for the 21st century and digital platforms.[ He is the McCormick Lecturer in National Security Studies at Medill and leads the Medill National Security Reporting Project, an annual three-month post-graduate student national security project. He is also on the board of directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors, a professional association of investigative reporters.
In 2016, NBC News hired him as a senior investigative reporter. He has also been a correspondent for Quartz, an Atlantic Media online publication. He has also written for Reuters, ''Der Spiegel'', ''The Boston Globe'', and ''Salon''.][ He has been a guest on NPR, BBC, PBS, and CNN.
In 2017 Meyer reported on actions taken by the ]Obama administration
Barack Obama's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017. A Democrat from Illinois, Obama took office following a decisive victory over Republican ...
to prevent Hezbollah
Hezbollah (; ar, حزب الله ', , also transliterated Hizbullah or Hizballah, among others) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group, led by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah since 1992. Hezbollah's parami ...
drug-trafficking activities from being closed down because of fears it would affect relations with Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
. An official spokesperson said he had relied on "low-level, ideological sources", but Meyer said he had "spent months of meticulous reporting" on the story.
Meyer co-authored ''The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of The Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed'' (2012) with Terry McDermott
Terence McDermott (born 8 December 1951) is an English former football midfielder who was a member of the Liverpool team of the 1970s and early 1980s, in which he won three European Cups and five First Division titles. He was capped 25 times ...
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Involvement with shows
He was a screenwriter and executive producer for the 2000 network TV crime thriller show ''Level 9'' with mystery novelist Michael Connelly
Michael Joseph Connelly (born July 21, 1956) is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller.
Connelly is the bes ...
and consults on documentary films such as Morgan Spurlock
Morgan Valentine Spurlock (born November 7, 1970) is an American documentary filmmaker, humorist, television producer, screenwriter and playwright.
Spurlock's films include ''Super Size Me'' (2004), '' Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?'' (20 ...
's 2008 documentary '' Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?''.
He plays in the band Suspicious Package.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American male journalists
University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences alumni
Politico people