Karl E. Meyer

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Karl E. Meyer (May 22, 1928 – December 22, 2019) was an American-based journalist. The third generation of his family to be engaged in that occupation,^[1] Meyer's grandfather, George Meyer, was the editor of the leading German language newspaper in Milwaukee, the Germania; his father, Ernest L. Meyer, was a columnist for The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin and then the New York Post. In 1979, he joined The New York Times as the senior writer for foreign affairs, a position he held until his retirement in 1998.