David Weir (journalist)

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David Weir is a journalist who's written for The Economist, HotWired, L.A. Weekly, Mother Jones, The Nation, New West, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Salon.com, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, and others.

With Dan Noyes, Weir wrote Raising Hell: How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets the Story. With Mark Schapiro, he wrote Circle of Poison: Pesticides and People in a Hungry World. He also wrote The Bhopal Syndrome.

Weir taught at the University of California Graduate School of Journalism from 1985 to 1999, and was the Lorry I. Lokey visiting professor in professional journalism at Stanford University from 2002-2005.

He was an editor at SunDance Magazine, Rolling Stone, California Magazine, Mother Jones, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and (in 2001) was the founding editor of 7x7 Magazine in San Francisco. He was a content executive at Wired Digital, Salon.com, and Excite@Home. He is now Editor in Chief at Keep Media.

In college, David Weir was the sports editor of the Michigan Daily at the University of Michigan, and a stringer for UPI.

While at Rolling Stone, Weir and Howard Kohn revealed the "Inside Story" of Patty Hearst's odyssey while she was underground following her kidnapping by the "Symbianese Liberation Army."

He is on the board of the Center for Investigative Reporting and the editorial board of The Nation.

Weir is currently working on a biography of Rolling Stone Publisher Jann Wenner.^[1]