Heath Meriwether has served at the highest echelons of the newspaper industry. He was publisher of the Detroit Free Press for seven years, and played a key role in managing the newspaper during its 1995 labor strike and the period of great changes that followed. Previously as the newspaper’s executive editor, he oversaw its award-winning news coverage, including two Pulitzer Prizes. He also was executive editor and managing editor of the Miami Herald from 1981-87 when the paper won four Pulitzers. Meriwether regularly wrote columns on journalistic ethics and other newsroom issues. He has served on the faculty of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, presenting lectures to reporters at the Guangzhou Daily in China. Meriwether received a B.A. in History and a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia, and a M.A. in Teaching from Harvard University.