David Weir (journalist)

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David Weir is a journalist, consultant, and a blogger on media for BNET. He'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.

He also is a co-founder of the Center for Investigative Reporting (in 1977).

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 was Editor in Chief at Keep Media, (which became MyWire) from 2005-7.

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 "Symbionese Liberation Army." He also exposed FBI surveillance scandals involving the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement.

In addition, in 1977, he published the first article that eventually led to the best selling book, "Circle of Poison," in Rolling Stone.

He currently is Vice-President of the Center for Investigative Reporting and a member of the editorial board of The Nation Institute. He is also a judge, in 2008, for Alternet, the Society of Professional Journalists, and PEN USA.

Weir is working on a memoir of his years at Rolling Stone. Additionally, Weir is the Editor in Chief for web startup predictify.com .