David Weir (journalist)

David Weir is a journalist and co-founder, in 1977, of the Center for Investigative Reporting.

He has 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.

Weir has written or co-authored at least three books, listed below.

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 wrote a retrospective of Hunter Thompson.

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 2005–07, and held the same title at Predicify (2008–09).

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

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