Eric K. Meyer is the associate professor of journalism at the University of Illinois. He teaches information graphics, page layout and design, and online journalism. He's also the dean for academic affairs and administration in U of I's College of Media, and has been a U of I faculty member since 1996.

He's also know for his work long ago with Bloomington Pantagraph in Illinois and Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in Wisconsin.

This seems to have started in Marion County of Kansas state, where the Meyers owned a newspaper named Marion County Record.

So far, as the story goes:

Marion County Record's newspaper publisher, Eric Meyer, said a confidential source had provided documentation that restaurant owner, Kari Newell, had been convicted of drunken driving in 2008 and had driven without a license. This makes Kari's new application for a liquor license seem fraudulent. Yet, fearing the confidential tip may have been Keri's divorced or divorcing partner, Eric claimed to decide not to publish an article about the info, but instead to report it to the police.

Then the jackboot thugs began raiding everyone, taking the whole news paper's means for operation, and continuing to devastate owners and journalists with raids of their homes, ultimately leading to this death.