David Weigel Biography
David Weigel is a journalist from the United States. He is employed with Semafor. Weigel has previously written on politics for The Washington Post, Slate, and Bloomberg Politics, and he is a contributor to Reason magazine.
How old is David Weigel? – Age
He is 41 years old as of 26 September 2022. He was born in 1981 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States.
David Weigel Education
He graduated from the American Community School in Cobham, Surrey, in “the high Tory London suburbs” of the London commuter belt, in 2000, after coming to England in 1998. He came to Evanston, Illinois in 2000 and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 2004 from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, with a double major in journalism and political science and a minor in history.
Weigel wrote for The Daily Northwestern and was the editor-in-chief of the campus’s conservative newspaper, the Northwestern Chronicle, while in college. He also had a “fun” internship at the libertarian Center for Individual Rights in the summer of 2001.
David Weigel Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
David Weigel Joke
The Post suspended Weigel without pay for a month in June 2022 after he shared a sexist joke that categorized all women as bisexual or bipolar. Felicia Sonmez, a colleague, publicly chastised Weigel after he withdrew the retweet and apologized.
David Weigel Book
In June 2017, his book The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock was released.
David Weigel Blog
He has made appearances on The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC and Fresh Air on NPR. Weigel has written guest posts for Andrew Sullivan’s “Daily Dish” blog at The Atlantic as well as The Economist’s “Democracy in America” blog.
David Weigel Washington Post
David Weigel left the Washington Independent to write the “Right Now” column for the Washington Post website, concentrating on the conservative movement. Conservatives chastised him for tweets disparaging news editor Matt Drudge and labeling opponents of same-sex marriage as “bigots.” According to Politics Daily, The Washington Post’s guidelines urge journalists to refrain from writing, tweeting, or posting anything that could be seen as displaying political, racist, sexist, religious, or other bias or preference. On May 3, Weigel issued an apology.
Fishbowl DC and Tucker Carlson’s conservative news site, The Daily Caller, posted portions of several of David Weigel’s private emails from JournoList toward the end of June 2010. Various public figures associated with American conservatism, including Pat Buchanan, Matt Drudge, Newt Gingrich, and Rush Limbaugh, were the subject of disparaging remarks in these emails.
Before the second set of email excerpts were posted on Tucker Carlson’s website, Weigel posted an online apology, explaining that he had believed the off-the-record listserv environment was a place where he could “talk bluntly to friends.” Weigel resigned from The Washington Post in response to the leaked emails, and Ezra Klein shut down JournoList. Klein said that Weigel’s “different preferences don’t fall perfectly across partisan loyalties” and that assuming different messages had been picked, Weigel might have been made to seem to be a moderate fanatic.
Keith Olbermann made the announcement on June 28, 2010, that Weigel would be joining MSNBC as a news contributor. Politico, posting Weigel as one of the “50 politicos to watch”, noticed that he might have lost a writing for a blog work with The Washington Post over his spilled messages to an in private liberal email list, yet he didn’t harm his vocation. As a political reporter, Weigel joined The Washington Post-owned Slate magazine in August 2010. He ran a blog about politics and wrote long pieces, including a progressive rock series that was split into multiple parts. He mostly wrote about the conservative movement. Weigel left Slate in September 2014 to start a new job at Bloomberg Politics.
Weigel returned to The Washington Post on July 20, 2015, after only nine months at Bloomberg Politics. Weigel posted on Twitter on December 8, 2017, a picture of the audience at President Donald Trump’s rally in Florida’s Pensacola Bay Center that showed many empty seats.
The Post suspended Weigel without pay for a month in June 2022 after he shared a sexist joke that categorized all women as bisexual or bipolar. Felicia Sonmez, a colleague, publicly chastised Weigel after he withdrew the retweet and apologized. Weigel departed the Washington Post for Semafor in September 2022.