Jim Meyer
IBJ Media announced Friday that Jim Meyer, news editor of The Herald-Bulletin in Anderson, will become editor of the Indiana Lawyer on June 24.
Meyer, 44, is a Pennsylvania native who studied journalism at Slippery Rock University. Meyer said he enjoyed writing about crime and courts while working as a reporter for newspapers in the communities of St. Mary’s and Oil City in his home state.
“I enjoyed everything from covering serious crimes to just sitting in court,” Meyer said. “I found the law and its interpretations fascinating. …I’m going to bring that enthusiasm and experience to the Indiana Bar.”
The Indiana Lawyer, launched in 1990, covers Indiana’s legal community, courts and judicial opinions in a weekly and daily newspaper at theindianalawyer.com and through email newsletters.
Meyer will succeed Olivia Covington as editor. Covington, who was hired as editor in June 2021, left IBJ Media in February to take a role as business development specialist for law firm Dentons Bingham Greenebaum.
Before graduating from Slippery Rock University, Meyer served in the U.S. Army for eight years. He worked as a vehicle mechanic during a deployment to Kosovo and two deployments to Iraq.
Meyer said his military experience comes in handy in the daily tasks of journalism.
“I would say it definitely contributes to flexibility and adaptability,” Meyer said. “A journalist may have what is basically a 9 to 5 schedule, but you never know what’s going to happen that day.”
Meyer will lead the four-person staff of The Indiana Lawyer, which is part of the IBJ Media newsroom that includes the Indianapolis Business Journal and Inside INdiana Business.
In naming Meyer as editor of The Indiana Lawyer, IBJ Media also announced that Indianapolis Business Journal editor Lesley Weidenbener will become assistant editor of IBJ and The Lawyer.
IBJ Media CEO and publisher Nate Feltman became the company’s sole owner in March.
“We are excited to welcome Jim Meyer to the team,” Weidenbener said. “He brings a great mix of skills to the position: he is a former court reporter, currently edits a team similar in size to Indiana’s legal staff, and has been working for several years in Indiana, so he understands the local landscape. And we believe that his military experience also brings great perspective to the company.”
Weidenbener said IBJ Media is entering a new era of integrating the expertise of IBJ staff members, Inside Indiana Business and Indiana Lawyer to inform consumers about each platform.
“Our goal is to harness the power of our larger, combined newsroom to bring readers the most important business and legal stories of the day and help them make good decisions about their lives and organizations,” he said. “Jim will be an important part of that effort.”
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