Judith Meyer

Sun Journal

Judith Meyer is executive editor of the Sun Journal, Kennebec Journal, the Morning Sentinel and the Western Maine weekly newspapers of the Sun Media Group. She serves as vice president of the Maine Freedom of Information Coalition and is a member of the Right to Know Advisory Committee to the Legislature. A journalist since 1990 and former editorial page editor for the Sun Journal, she was named Maine’s Journalist of the Year in 2003. She serves on the New England Newspaper & Press Association Board of Directors and was the 2018 recipient of the Judith Vance Weld Brown Spirit of Journalism Award by the New England Society of Newspaper Editors. A fellow of the National Press Foundation and the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, she attended George Washington University, lives in Auburn with her husband, Phil, and is an active member of the Bicycle Coalition of Maine.

Latest

Published
August 11, 2019

Epstein suicide sparks fresh round of conspiracy theories

Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide in a federal jail is sparking a fresh round of conspiracy theories online, and even from prominent officials, in a case that has long provided fuel for them.
Published
August 10, 2019

Wet winter, hot summer damaging Maine’s fruit trees

Weather conditions so far in 2019 have damaged many of Maine’s fruit trees, but despite the damage one expert predicts the apple crop will come in just fine.
Published
August 10, 2019

US military says service member killed in Iraq

The U.S. military says a U.S. service member has died in Iraq during a mission with Iraq’s security forces in the country’s north
Published
August 10, 2019

Libraries putting social workers on staff to help patrons struggling with poverty, drug addiction or mental illness

A few master’s degree programs for aspiring librarians have classes on mental health, but most don’t. To help fill in the gaps, an estimated 40-plus library systems have full-time social workers on staff, according to Whole Person Librarianship, an organization that tracks such partnerships.
Published
August 9, 2019

Jalbert named vice president, general manager of Sun Media Group

Sales Executives Dan McManus and Kelly Wade have also been promoted, and the company has hired three new sales executives.
Published
August 9, 2019

Lewiston man gets life sentence in stabbing

This is the second time the 77-year-old man has been sentenced for killing a woman. He was released from prison in 2000 for that crime. One of the victim’s friends said, “I hope he rots in hell.”
Published
July 29, 2019

This week’s agenda

Monday Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Casco: Select Board, 6:30 p.m., Casco Community Center Wednesday Buckfield: Community Day Planning workshop, 3 p.m., Municipal Center Hartford: Brainstorming on Town Office, 7 p.m., Town Hall Thursday Buckfield: Library Committee, 6:30 p.m., Zadoc Long Free Library Canton: Planning Board, 6:30 p.m., Town Office New Vineyard: Selectmen, […]
Published
July 28, 2019

Police identify man shot to death Saturday in Auburn

AUBURN — The man who was fatally shot Saturday evening in the parking lot at Walmart has been identified as Jean Fournier, 41, of Turner. Fournier was shot twice in the back in a possible case of road rage, according to police. He died at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. Stephen McCausland, spokesman for […]
Published
July 28, 2019

Book World: Eight men, one chaotic election and the birth of the modern primary system

It was a bloody year. Every night in 1968 Americans watched the Vietnam War rage on television. Casualties from the war had increased dramatically in 1966, again in 1967 and again in 1968. When Americans weren’t tuning into the dismal news from Vietnam, they were watching race riots in major cities. In the nation’s capital, […]
Published
July 28, 2019

All-girls school becomes 1st in US with varsity esports

A private school near Cleveland has become the first U.S. all-girls school to launch a varsity esports program. The team at Hathaway Brown is coached by J Collins, a former U.S. Department of Education employee who has concerns about patterns of inequity in the budding collegiate esports scene. Collins hopes to set an example for how high schools can attract more girl and gender minority gamers so those players can take advantage of scholarship opportunities.

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