After graduation in 1956, his career in foreign affairs began for "The Washington Post". He also wrote a weekly column from America for the "New Statesman". Meyer won an Overseas Press Club award for his coverage of Latin America, and during the Cuban revolution he interviewed Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra. From 1965 to 1970, he was the "Post"s London bureau chief where he became a weekly regular on the BBC and a character in the humor magazine "Private Eye". In 1968, he covered the Soviet invasion and occupation of Czechoslovakia. Returning home in 1970, he headed the "Post"s New York bureau.