Hans K. Meyer
CCN Faculty Champion
Ohio University - Athens, OH
Center for Community News
BIO
Ohio University - Athens, OH
Program Summary: Build a collaborative sharing system with the Athens Independent – a community news newsletter and website – to enable Independent staff to easily integrate student work into local news reporting.
Before joining Ohio University in 2009, Hans Meyer spent nearly a decade as an editor and reporter with newspapers along the Interstate 15 corridor in Utah, Nevada, and California. He led a news and advertising team of 15 at the Desert Dispatch, a 6,000-circulation daily newspaper in Barstow. His research focuses on helping journalists embrace and tell better stories through new technology including podcasts, social video, and even VR.
Bio
Ohio University - Athens, OH
Program Summary: Build a collaborative sharing system with the Athens Independent – a community news newsletter and website – to enable Independent staff to easily integrate student work into local news reporting.
Before joining Ohio University in 2009, Hans Meyer spent nearly a decade as an editor and reporter with newspapers along the Interstate 15 corridor in Utah, Nevada, and California. He led a news and advertising team of 15 at the Desert Dispatch, a 6,000-circulation daily newspaper in Barstow. His research focuses on helping journalists embrace and tell better stories through new technology including podcasts, social video, and even VR.