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, 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.
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