David Weigel
| David Weigel | |
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Weigel in 2011
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| Born |
September 26, 1981 Wilmington, Delaware, United States |
| Residence | Washington, D.C., United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Journalism and political science major |
| Alma mater |
Northwestern University B.S. (2004) |
| Occupation | Journalist, blogger |
| Employer | The Washington Post |
| Website | daveweigel |
David "Dave" Weigel (born September 26, 1981) is an American journalist. Since 2015, he has worked for The Washington Post. Weigel previously covered politics for Slate and Bloomberg Politics.
From April through June 2010, he wrote a weblog for The Washington Post website focusing on the conservative and Tea Party movements and the Republican Party's preparations for the 2010 midterm elections. Weigel resigned from the Post following the leak of several emails he had written on JournoList.
Weigel was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. After moving to England in 1998, he graduated from the American Community School in Cobham, Surrey, in "the high Tory London suburbs" of the London commuter belt, in 2000.
He moved to Chicago in 2000 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 2004 from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, with a double major in journalism and political science and a minor in history. During this time, Weigel was a frequent poster on George Starostin's popular 'Music Babble' forum. While at college, Weigel wrote for The Daily Northwestern and was editor-in-chief of the campus conservative newspaper Northwestern Chronicle. He described his interests as including politics and far-right and far-left radicalism.
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