[1] In 1921 he became editor of the Knoxville News daily paper, later known as the News-Sentinel, and then just Sentinel, and ten years later edited the Memphis Press-Scimitar.
[1] After his retirement from the Press-Scimitar in 1962, Meeman served "as conservation editor of all Scripps-Howard newspapers ... until his death"[2] on November 15, 1966, at age 77.
[3] Subsequently, Scripps Howard created the Edward J. Meeman Foundation to support journalism and conservation through grants and awards.
[2] The Edward J. Meeman Environmental Reporting Award has been given to various journalists since 1967, including Ken Ward Jr., Sam Roe, Bruce Ingersoll, James V. Risser, Larry Tye, and Craig Flournoy.
The Meeman Museum and Nature Center in the Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park in Tennessee is named after him.