David Weir is a journalist, author, and co-founder and former Executive Director of the Center for Investigative Reporting.
[1] He has written for publications including 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, and the San Francisco Examiner..[2] While at Rolling Stone, Weir and Howard Kohn revealed the "Inside Story" of Patty Hearst's odyssey while she was underground, following her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
[3] Other investigative pieces included FBI surveillance scandals involving the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement,[4] and, in 1977, the first article leading to his best-selling book, Circle of Poison.
Weir is discussed in the book "Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine" in many sections.
[5] Weir was KQED's senior editor for digital news, and often wrote about the Giants.