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Alec Meer

Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Director

Previously: Edge Contributor, Eurogamer Contributor, IGN Contributor, PC Gamer Contributor, Techradar Contributor

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Cronyism

Apparent

Cronyism

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Covered the videogame Volume two times. Volume was a customer of Agency for Games, a company owned and founded by fellow journalist Leigh Alexander, who appears to have a friendly relationship with Meer—exchanging tweets since 2009, and attempting to meet up multiple times. Meer’s articles contain no disclosure of this relationship.

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2015 Aug 18

Filed

2016 Oct 13

Wrote about the game "Redshirt", without disclosing that they were on friendly enough terms with the game's creator Mitu Khandaker-Kokoris to have hanged out together multiple times — including going to a concert together and Khandaker-Kokoris participating at a barbecue organized by Meer.

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2015 Jun 01

This journalist’s career means they might be subject to slight asymmetric scrutiny.

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