Philip Meyer, reporter who brought data crunching to newsrooms, dies at 93

Philip Meyer, a journalist who introduced computers to newsrooms in the late 1960s as a powerful tool for mining reams of data, inspiring generations of reporters to fuse social science methods with classic reporting to produce revelatory journalism, died Nov. 4 at his home in Carrboro, N.C. He was 93.

The cause was complications from Parkinson’s disease, said his daughter Kathy Lucente.