Meredith Clark

Meredith D. Clark is an American journalist and scholar.

She was named by The Root to their 2015 list of 100 most influential Black Americans after her Ph.D. dissertation, To Tweet Our Own Cause: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Online Phenomenon "Black Twitter", won a Top Dissertation award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

According to The Root, the dissertation was one of the first analyses of Black Twitter by an academic researcher. NPR called her "the go-to person about Black Twitter".

Clark attended Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, earning a bachelor's degree in political science in 2002 and a master's degree in journalism in 2006. It won a Top Dissertation award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Prior to earning her Ph.D., Clark worked as a journalist for the Capital Outlook, the Tallahassee Democrat, the Austin American-Statesman, and the News & Observer.

After earning her Ph.D., Clark became an assistant professor at the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas.

She is an assistant professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia.

She received a grant of $1.2 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to research African-American social media.

As of 2021 she is an associate professor at Northeastern University.

In July 2024 Clark was hired by alma mater The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media as an associate professor of race and political communication.

Personal life Clark is married to Willie A. Green III The couple live in Charlottesville, Virginia.