David Weir is a journalist, author, and co-founder and former Executive Director of the

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. He has written for publications including ''

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, L.A. Weekly, Mother Jones,

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, New West,

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, and the

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.''. While at Rolling Stone, Weir and Howard Kohn revealed the "Inside Story" of

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's odyssey while she was underground, following her kidnapping by the

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. Other investigative pieces included

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surveillance scandals involving the

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, the

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, and, in 1977, the first article leading to his best-selling book, ''Circle of Poison.'' He was an editor at ''SunDance Magazine,

, 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 ''

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Digital,

,'' 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). While in college, he was the sports editor of the ''

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'' at the

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, and a stringer for

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. Weir taught at the

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Graduate School of Journalism from 1985 to 1999, and was the Lorry I. Lokey visiting professor in professional journalism at

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from 2002-2005. He is a member of the editorial board of

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. He is also a judge, in 2008, for

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, the

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, and

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USA.

References to David Weir

Weir is discussed in the book "Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine" in many sections. One where it states Wenner could be snobbish, but not when it came to great writers like Weir. Then later it said that Weir was fired for Jann's limo when the company moved to New York. Weir was KQED's senior editor for digital news, and often wrote about the Giants.

Published works

Books

* Weir, David and Mark Schapiro. ''Circle of Poison: Pesticides and People in a Hungry World'' (Food First Books) February 1981) Describes the international marketing of pesticides banned in the United States and incidences of pesticide poisoning in farm workers and through the exportation of contaminated foods. * Weir, David and Dan Noyes. '' Raising Hell: How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets the Story'' (Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 1983: 1983) . * Weir, David. ''The Bhopal Syndrome: Pesticides, Environment and Health'' (

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, 1987) Discusses the

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in the context of a global syndrome that puts countless lives at risk; proposes measures to reduce unnecessary risk.

References

External links

The Neiman Journalism LabThe San Francisco Public PressThe Center for Investigative Reporting archived websiteKQED ContributorsDavid Weir’s Newsletter
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