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David Weigel

January 19, 2024

David Weigel (born September 26, 1981) is an American journalist. He works for Semafor.[2] Weigel previously covered politics for The Washington Post, Slate, and Bloomberg Politics and is a contributing editor for Reason magazine.[3][4]

David Weigel
Weigel in 2011
Born (1981-09-26) September 26, 1981 (age 42)
Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.[1]
EducationNorthwestern University (BS)
Occupation(s)Journalist, blogger
EmployerSemafor
Websitedaveweigel.com

Early years and background edit

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"[5] of the London commuter belt, in 2000.[1][5]

He moved to Evanston, Illinois 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.[6][7] While at college, Weigel wrote for The Daily Northwestern and was editor-in-chief of the campus's conservative newspaper Northwestern Chronicle.[5][8] In the summer of 2001,[9] he also had a "fun" internship at the libertarian Center for Individual Rights.[10]

Political affiliations edit

In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, Weigel voted for Ralph Nader, and served as a Delaware college elector for Nader.[11] In May 2002, then-The Daily Northwestern writer and current Bloomberg News reporter[12][13] Dan Murtaugh noted how "in two years Dave Weigel has gone from being a Ralph Nader-voting uber-liberal to the scorn of the leftist movement at Northwestern" and how Weigel underwent a "180-degree political turn" "after he was turned away from The Daily" and started working for The Chronicle.[8] In February 2003, while enrolled as a junior and working as editor-in-chief of Northwestern Chronicle,[14] Weigel supported the Iraq War and crashed an anti-war protest at Northwestern University.[9]

In the 2004 election, Weigel voted for John Kerry. Weigel later wrote that "[he regrets] the Nader vote, but not the Kerry vote, as a weak Democratic president with a conservative Congress would have been pretty tolerable in retrospect".[11] He voted for Jack Ryan in the Illinois United States Senate election, 2004 Republican primary.[15]

In early 2007, Weigel became a registered Republican in the Washington, D.C. area,[16][17][18] in order to vote for Ron Paul at the Republican primary stage of the 2008 presidential election.[19] In November 2008, Weigel voted for Barack Obama, explaining "I really don't think McCain has the temperament to be President or the interest in standing up to a Democratic Congress....I've got the luxury of a guilt-free, zero-impact vote in the District of Columbia, which I would cast for Bob Barr if he was on the ballot".[11]

In January 2011, Weigel stated that he had voted for Republican Patrick Mara in elections to the Council of the District of Columbia, and that he had voted for Mara "every time he's been on the ballot".[20]

In the Republican Party presidential primaries 2012, Weigel voted for Jon Huntsman, despite his having withdrawn from the race, because "If you looked past his whiff of a tax plan (Huntsman recommended using the flat rates that Simpson and Bowles recommended not using), the guy had a few good ideas."[21] In the 2012 general election, Weigel voted for Gary Johnson.[22]

Career edit

Weigel began his professional career as an editorial assistant and researcher for the USA Today editorial page and as a reporter for Campaigns & Elections. He has contributed articles to Slate, The Daily Beast, Time, The Guardian, The American Prospect, The American Spectator, The Washington Monthly, The American Conservative, Politico, and The Nation. He has appeared on NPR's Fresh Air and MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show.[23] Weigel has also blogged for The Economist's "Democracy in America" blog, and guest-blogged for Andrew Sullivan's "Daily Dish" blog at The Atlantic.[24][25] His book The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock was published in June 2017.[26]

Weigel is a contributing editor of the libertarian Reason magazine and was one of its staff political writers from 2006 to 2008.[6] He wrote for the liberal Washington Independent from November 2008 until early 2010 and was one of the "best sourced" reporters there, according to Michael Calderone of Politico.[27]

The Washington Post edit

After working for the Washington Independent, Weigel took a job writing the "Right Now" column on the Washington Post website, focusing on the conservative movement. Weigel told Politico that "If readers get a deeper understanding of these people, their strategy, and their ideas, then I'm doing my job."[27] The national editor of The Washington Post said Weigel was hired to add a voice to the paper's online politics coverage.[27] Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post said the online columns were supposed to contain a mixture of reporting and opinion.[28]

Weigel was criticized by conservatives for tweets that he made on May 2, 2010, that disparaged news editor Matt Drudge,[29] and that called opponents of same-sex marriage "bigots". Penny Nance of conservative group Concerned Women for America responded that Weigel's "arrogance disqualifies him as a serious journalist assigned to covering conservatives."[30] Politics Daily noted that The Washington Post's guidelines require Post journalists to "refrain from writing, tweeting or posting anything ... that could be perceived as reflecting political, racial, sexist, religious or other bias or favoritism that could be used to tarnish our journalistic credibility."[30] Weigel apologized on May 3.[31]

Leaked e-mails edit

In late June 2010, excerpts of several of Weigel's private emails from JournoList[32] were posted online by the website Fishbowl DC[33] and later by Tucker Carlson's conservative news site, The Daily Caller.[32][34] JournoList had been started in 2007 by Ezra Klein[28] as an invitation-only discussion and debate forum for left-of-center bloggers and reporters.[35] The excerpts of Weigel's archived emails contained negative remarks about various public figures associated with American conservatism such as Pat Buchanan, Matt Drudge, Newt Gingrich, and Rush Limbaugh.[34]

Weigel said all of the emails were sent before he joined The Washington Post.[28] He apologized online before the second round of email excerpts was published on the Tucker Carlson site, explaining that he had thought the off-the-record listserv environment was a place where he could "talk bluntly to friends".[36] However, The Washington Post responded that the apology could not save his job because "the damage was too severe."[37] Jim Geraghty of the National Review Online wrote that "there was definitely a perception that his blog was designed to make conservatives look bad."[28]

Weigel on media tempest

"I used to make fun of these people[...]when they tried to explain their downfall, or when they tried to express contrition. And suddenly I was one of them". "I can't imagine ever again writing about someone without manning up to get him or her to comment, or provide more context. I realized that no one could take the same scrutiny and walk away looking saintly".[38]

As a result of the leaked emails, Weigel resigned from The Washington Post and Ezra Klein shut down JournoList.[32][35][39] The executive editor of The Washington Post said the paper "can't have any tolerance for the perception that people are conflicted or bring a bias to their work.”[35] Journalist Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic said Weigel was forced to resign under an "old media", "non-ideological standard that just doesn't exist".[35] In closing down JournoList, Klein said it had "become a weapon, and insofar as people's careers are now at stake, it has to die".[35] Describing Weigel as "an idiosyncratic libertarian who likes some politicians and media figures, and not others", Klein said that Weigel's "likes and dislikes do not fall neatly across party lines".[39] Remarking that leaked information can show only a partial, cherry picked truth, and that it can be just plain wrong, Klein said that if other emails had been chosen, Weigel could have been made to look like a conservative extremist.[39]

After the Post edit

Weigel began appearing on MSNBC in 2009. On June 28, 2010, Keith Olbermann announced that Weigel was joining MSNBC as a news contributor.[40]

Politico, listing Weigel as one of the "50 politicos to watch",[41] commented that "Weigel may have lost a blogging job with The Washington Post over his leaked e-mails to an off-the-record liberal e-mail list, but he didn't exactly damage his career. If anything, the enthusiastic endorsements of his reporting skills after he left the Post last month brought Weigel to the attention of a wider audience than the relatively small group of conservative activists and the reporters who write about them for whom Weigel has long been a must-read" and that he expected to sign on to "some outlet that has a big online presence" by the end of July.[42]

In August 2010, Weigel joined Slate magazine (owned by The Washington Post) as a political reporter. Weigel said "This is the magazine that invented the sort of journalism I want to do", he continued, "And I'm very pleased that I'll get to continue working the beat I developed at the Post, the Independent, and Reason." Weigel ran a blog covering politics, focusing largely but not exclusively on the conservative movement, his area of expertise. He also wrote long-form pieces,[43] including a multi-part series on progressive rock.

In September 2014, Weigel left Slate in preparation for a new job at Bloomberg Politics.[44]

Return to the Post edit

 
David Weigel playing video games with Senator Cory Booker as part of an interview at The Washington Post in 2018

After only nine months at Bloomberg Politics, Weigel returned to The Washington Post on July 20, 2015.[45] His beat was to cover grassroots movements as part of the Post's presidential coverage. He began authoring the newsletter The Trailer in 2018, which focused on electoral campaigns.[46]

On December 8, 2017, Weigel tweeted a photo of the crowd at President Donald Trump's rally at the Pensacola Bay Center in Florida that showed many empty seats. He quickly deleted the tweet after it was pointed out that the photo was taken before the venue filled up. Trump addressed the incident the next day on his Twitter account and demanded that Weigel be fired. Weigel replied and apologized, writing "Was confused by the image of you walking in the bottom right corner."[47]

In June 2022, the Post suspended Weigel without salary for a month after he retweeted an allegedly sexist joke which characterized all women as either bisexual or bipolar.[48] Weigel, who later removed the retweet and apologized, was publicly criticized by colleague Felicia Sonmez.[49][50][51][52]

Semafor edit

In September 2022, Weigel left the Washington Post and was hired by news startup Semafor, which launched the following month.[53] He writes the Americana newsletter, which focuses on national politics.[54]

Personal life edit

Weigel was mentioned in a 2006 article in The New York Times about bloggers who roomed together. At that time, he shared a house with fellow Reason.com writer Julian Sanchez that they had dubbed "Casa de Libertarios".[55]

He lives in Los Angeles.[56]

References edit

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External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to David Weigel.
  • Official website
  • Weigel's articles at The Washington Post
  • Weigel: Reporting about politics and policy at Slate
  • David Weigel: The Remaking Of The Right, (audio), Fresh Air, NPR September 2009.
  • Video debates featuring Weigel on Bloggingheads.tv
  • Appearances on C-SPAN

January 19, 2024
david, weigel, born, september, 1981, american, journalist, works, semafor, weigel, previously, covered, politics, washington, post, slate, bloomberg, politics, contributing, editor, reason, magazine, weigel, 2011born, 1981, september, 1981, wilmington, delawa. David Weigel born September 26 1981 is an American journalist He works for Semafor 2 Weigel previously covered politics for The Washington Post Slate and Bloomberg Politics and is a contributing editor for Reason magazine 3 4 David WeigelWeigel in 2011Born 1981 09 26 September 26 1981 age 42 Wilmington Delaware U S 1 EducationNorthwestern University BS Occupation s Journalist bloggerEmployerSemaforWebsitedaveweigel wbr com Contents 1 Early years and background 1 1 Political affiliations 2 Career 2 1 The Washington Post 2 1 1 Leaked e mails 2 2 After the Post 2 3 Return to the Post 2 4 Semafor 3 Personal life 4 References 5 External linksEarly years and background editWeigel 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 5 of the London commuter belt in 2000 1 5 He moved to Evanston Illinois 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 6 7 While at college Weigel wrote for The Daily Northwestern and was editor in chief of the campus s conservative newspaper Northwestern Chronicle 5 8 In the summer of 2001 9 he also had a fun internship at the libertarian Center for Individual Rights 10 Political affiliations edit In the 2000 U S presidential election Weigel voted for Ralph Nader and served as a Delaware college elector for Nader 11 In May 2002 then The Daily Northwestern writer and current Bloomberg News reporter 12 13 Dan Murtaugh noted how in two years Dave Weigel has gone from being a Ralph Nader voting uber liberal to the scorn of the leftist movement at Northwestern and how Weigel underwent a 180 degree political turn after he was turned away from The Daily and started working for The Chronicle 8 In February 2003 while enrolled as a junior and working as editor in chief of Northwestern Chronicle 14 Weigel supported the Iraq War and crashed an anti war protest at Northwestern University 9 In the 2004 election Weigel voted for John Kerry Weigel later wrote that he regrets the Nader vote but not the Kerry vote as a weak Democratic president with a conservative Congress would have been pretty tolerable in retrospect 11 He voted for Jack Ryan in the Illinois United States Senate election 2004 Republican primary 15 In early 2007 Weigel became a registered Republican in the Washington D C area 16 17 18 in order to vote for Ron Paul at the Republican primary stage of the 2008 presidential election 19 In November 2008 Weigel voted for Barack Obama explaining I really don t think McCain has the temperament to be President or the interest in standing up to a Democratic Congress I ve got the luxury of a guilt free zero impact vote in the District of Columbia which I would cast for Bob Barr if he was on the ballot 11 In January 2011 Weigel stated that he had voted for Republican Patrick Mara in elections to the Council of the District of Columbia and that he had voted for Mara every time he s been on the ballot 20 In the Republican Party presidential primaries 2012 Weigel voted for Jon Huntsman despite his having withdrawn from the race because If you looked past his whiff of a tax plan Huntsman recommended using the flat rates that Simpson and Bowles recommended not using the guy had a few good ideas 21 In the 2012 general election Weigel voted for Gary Johnson 22 Career editWeigel began his professional career as an editorial assistant and researcher for the USA Today editorial page and as a reporter for Campaigns amp Elections He has contributed articles to Slate The Daily Beast Time The Guardian The American Prospect The American Spectator The Washington Monthly The American Conservative Politico and The Nation He has appeared on NPR s Fresh Air and MSNBC s The Rachel Maddow Show 23 Weigel has also blogged for The Economist s Democracy in America blog and guest blogged for Andrew Sullivan s Daily Dish blog at The Atlantic 24 25 His book The Show That Never Ends The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock was published in June 2017 26 Weigel is a contributing editor of the libertarian Reason magazine and was one of its staff political writers from 2006 to 2008 6 He wrote for the liberal Washington Independent from November 2008 until early 2010 and was one of the best sourced reporters there according to Michael Calderone of Politico 27 The Washington Post edit After working for the Washington Independent Weigel took a job writing the Right Now column on the Washington Post website focusing on the conservative movement Weigel told Politico that If readers get a deeper understanding of these people their strategy and their ideas then I m doing my job 27 The national editor of The Washington Post said Weigel was hired to add a voice to the paper s online politics coverage 27 Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post said the online columns were supposed to contain a mixture of reporting and opinion 28 Weigel was criticized by conservatives for tweets that he made on May 2 2010 that disparaged news editor Matt Drudge 29 and that called opponents of same sex marriage bigots Penny Nance of conservative group Concerned Women for America responded that Weigel s arrogance disqualifies him as a serious journalist assigned to covering conservatives 30 Politics Daily noted that The Washington Post s guidelines require Post journalists to refrain from writing tweeting or posting anything that could be perceived as reflecting political racial sexist religious or other bias or favoritism that could be used to tarnish our journalistic credibility 30 Weigel apologized on May 3 31 Leaked e mails edit In late June 2010 excerpts of several of Weigel s private emails from JournoList 32 were posted online by the website Fishbowl DC 33 and later by Tucker Carlson s conservative news site The Daily Caller 32 34 JournoList had been started in 2007 by Ezra Klein 28 as an invitation only discussion and debate forum for left of center bloggers and reporters 35 The excerpts of Weigel s archived emails contained negative remarks about various public figures associated with American conservatism such as Pat Buchanan Matt Drudge Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh 34 Weigel said all of the emails were sent before he joined The Washington Post 28 He apologized online before the second round of email excerpts was published on the Tucker Carlson site explaining that he had thought the off the record listserv environment was a place where he could talk bluntly to friends 36 However The Washington Post responded that the apology could not save his job because the damage was too severe 37 Jim Geraghty of the National Review Online wrote that there was definitely a perception that his blog was designed to make conservatives look bad 28 Weigel on media tempest I used to make fun of these people when they tried to explain their downfall or when they tried to express contrition And suddenly I was one of them I can t imagine ever again writing about someone without manning up to get him or her to comment or provide more context I realized that no one could take the same scrutiny and walk away looking saintly 38 As a result of the leaked emails Weigel resigned from The Washington Post and Ezra Klein shut down JournoList 32 35 39 The executive editor of The Washington Post said the paper can t have any tolerance for the perception that people are conflicted or bring a bias to their work 35 Journalist Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic said Weigel was forced to resign under an old media non ideological standard that just doesn t exist 35 In closing down JournoList Klein said it had become a weapon and insofar as people s careers are now at stake it has to die 35 Describing Weigel as an idiosyncratic libertarian who likes some politicians and media figures and not others Klein said that Weigel s likes and dislikes do not fall neatly across party lines 39 Remarking that leaked information can show only a partial cherry picked truth and that it can be just plain wrong Klein said that if other emails had been chosen Weigel could have been made to look like a conservative extremist 39 After the Post edit Weigel began appearing on MSNBC in 2009 On June 28 2010 Keith Olbermann announced that Weigel was joining MSNBC as a news contributor 40 Politico listing Weigel as one of the 50 politicos to watch 41 commented that Weigel may have lost a blogging job with The Washington Post over his leaked e mails to an off the record liberal e mail list but he didn t exactly damage his career If anything the enthusiastic endorsements of his reporting skills after he left the Post last month brought Weigel to the attention of a wider audience than the relatively small group of conservative activists and the reporters who write about them for whom Weigel has long been a must read and that he expected to sign on to some outlet that has a big online presence by the end of July 42 In August 2010 Weigel joined Slate magazine owned by The Washington Post as a political reporter Weigel said This is the magazine that invented the sort of journalism I want to do he continued And I m very pleased that I ll get to continue working the beat I developed at the Post the Independent and Reason Weigel ran a blog covering politics focusing largely but not exclusively on the conservative movement his area of expertise He also wrote long form pieces 43 including a multi part series on progressive rock In September 2014 Weigel left Slate in preparation for a new job at Bloomberg Politics 44 Return to the Post edit nbsp David Weigel playing video games with Senator Cory Booker as part of an interview at The Washington Post in 2018After only nine months at Bloomberg Politics Weigel returned to The Washington Post on July 20 2015 45 His beat was to cover grassroots movements as part of the Post s presidential coverage He began authoring the newsletter The Trailer in 2018 which focused on electoral campaigns 46 On December 8 2017 Weigel tweeted a photo of the crowd at President Donald Trump s rally at the Pensacola Bay Center in Florida that showed many empty seats He quickly deleted the tweet after it was pointed out that the photo was taken before the venue filled up Trump addressed the incident the next day on his Twitter account and demanded that Weigel be fired Weigel replied and apologized writing Was confused by the image of you walking in the bottom right corner 47 In June 2022 the Post suspended Weigel without salary for a month after he retweeted an allegedly sexist joke which characterized all women as either bisexual or bipolar 48 Weigel who later removed the retweet and apologized was publicly criticized by colleague Felicia Sonmez 49 50 51 52 Semafor edit In September 2022 Weigel left the Washington Post and was hired by news startup Semafor which launched the following month 53 He writes the Americana newsletter which focuses on national politics 54 Personal life editWeigel was mentioned in a 2006 article in The New York Times about bloggers who roomed together At that time he shared a house with fellow Reason com writer Julian Sanchez that they had dubbed Casa de Libertarios 55 He lives in Los Angeles 56 References edit a b Chronicle staff David Weigel Bio Northwestern Chronicle Political Reporter David Weigel Is Happy to Stay in the Cheap Hotel next to Chili s GQ November 7 2022 Retrieved December 2 2022 Calderone Michael September 2 2014 Bloomberg Politics Hires Slate s Dave Weigel As New Venture Prepares For Launch Huffington Post Retrieved October 28 2015 Wemple Erik July 8 2015 Washington Post nabs Dave Weigel from Bloomberg Politics Washington Post Retrieved October 28 2015 a b c Maddalone Joe February 21 2012 6 Questions for Slate s David Weigel Loquiveri Archived from the original on February 23 2012 Retrieved May 20 2021 a b Dave Weigel Contributing Editor Reason January 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Twitter Dave Weigel on Twitter Dave Weigel on Twitter Dave Weigel on Twitter Weigel David April 3 2012 Why I Wasted My Vote on Jon Huntsman Slate Slate Votes Slate November 5 2012 The Rachel Maddow Show for Tuesday July 21 Transcript NBC News July 21 2009 Retrieved October 31 2009 Holmes Elizabeth August 31 2006 No Day at the Beach Bloggers Struggle With What to Do About Vacation The Wall Street Journal Retrieved June 27 2010 About Dave Weigel DaveWeigel com Retrieved June 27 2010 Prog Rock Gets Some Respect In The Show That Never Ends Jason Heller National Public Radio 13 June 2017 a b c Calderone Michael March 22 2010 WaPo Hires Weigel Politico Retrieved June 25 2010 a b c d Kurtz Howard June 26 2010 Washington Post Blogger David Weigel Resigns After Messages Leak The Washington Post Retrieved June 27 2010 Harper Jennifer May 3 2010 Drudge Smudge Inside the Beltway The Washington Times Retrieved June 29 2010 a b Lewis Matt May 4 2010 Washington Post Reporter s Bigots Tweet Criticized 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