Meredith D. Clark – Project Information Literacy

Board Member
Associate Professor of Communication, Media Innovation & Social Change Northeastern University

Meredith D. Clark, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Communication, Media Innovation & Social Change at Northeastern University. A longtime member of the National Association of Black Journalists, she is the advisor for the newly chartered chapter of NABJ-UVA. She spent 10 years working in print and digital news media before making the transition into academia, and is a 2010 graduate of the Maynard Institute Media Leadership Academy.

Meredith’s research, teaching, and professional writing focuses on the intersections of race, media, and power. She is the lead researcher for the American Society of News Editors’ annual Newsroom Diversity Survey, and serves as chair of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication’s Commission on the Status of Women. In 2015, she was named No. 66 on TheRoot’s Root 100, a list of the 100 most influential African Americans under 40 in the country. She was one of the inaugural co-contributors to Poynter’s diversity column.

In her newsroom career, Meredith worked through the ranks as a copy editor, reporter, editorial board member, and columnist at the Tallahassee Democrat in Tallahassee, Florida, and served as editor of the North Raleigh News and Midtown Raleigh News, two neighborhood weeklies produced by the Raleigh News & Observer. She was a contributor to Hashtag Publics: The Power and Politics of Discursive Networks (2015), and co-author of the reports “Beyond the Hashtags: #Ferguson, #BlackLivesMatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice” (2016), and “How Black Twitter and Other Social Media Communities Interact with Mainstream News” (2018). Her original research has been published in the academic journals New Media & Society, Electronic News, Journalism & Mass Communication Educator and The Journal of Social Media in Society. She is currently writing a book about Black Twitter, and serves as academic lead on “Documenting the Now 2,” a social media and web archiving project funded through a $1.2 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Day or night, she can be found on Twitter @meredithdclark.