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Josh Meyer is an author, screenwriter, lecturer, and reporter. He has worked for various media and is currently withPolitico.[1]
According to his profile page atPolitico, Meyer is from the Boston area. He obtained Bachelor of Arts degrees with honors in 1987 from theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst insocial thought andpolitical economy as well as journalism.[1]
He worked at theLos Angeles Times for twenty years until 2010 when he helped launchMedill School of Journalism's National Security Journalism Initiative in Washington, D.C., an effort to teach security journalism for the 21st century and digital platforms.[1] 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.[2] He has also been a correspondent for Quartz, an Atlantic Media online publication. He has also written for Reuters,Der Spiegel,The Boston Globe, andSalon.[1] He has been a guest on NPR, BBC, PBS, and CNN.
In 2017 Meyer reported on actions taken by theObama administration to preventHezbollah drug-trafficking activities from being closed down because of fears it would affect relations withIran. 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.[3]
Meyer co-authoredThe Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of The Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (2012) withTerry McDermott.[4]
He was a screenwriter and executive producer for the 2000 network TV crime thriller showLevel 9 with mystery novelistMichael Connelly and consults on documentary films such asMorgan Spurlock's 2008 documentaryWhere in the World Is Osama bin Laden?.
He plays in the band Suspicious Package.