ABOUT ME
Catching big air
Jay Weiner is an experienced reporter and writer based in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. He has long specialized in sports business and off-the-field issues. Weiner has covered every Winter and Summer Olympics since 1984.
In 2010, he was a research supervisor for NBC at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
In 2009 he helped author “College Sports 101,” a primer about big-time intercollegiate athletics finances, for the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.
In 2008-09, he covered the Al Franken-Norm Coleman U.S. Senate recount for MinnPost. This opened a new area of reporting and expertise for Weiner, who was honored with the Frank Premack Award, Minnesota’s most prestigious journalism award.
His book about the recount -- THIS IS NOT FLORIDA: How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate Recount -- was published in October 2010. It was nominated for a 2011 Minnesota Book Award.
He is a former Policy Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs and has been an adjunct journalism professor at the University of Minnesota.
He is married to Ann Juergens, a professor at William Mitchell College of Law. They have two sons: Henry, a first-year student at the University of Wisconsin Law School; and Nate, a research laboratory fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.
JAY WEINER
Born Philadelphia, PA, July 2, 1954
Attended Oberlin College
B.A. Temple University
Fellow, University of Maryland Specialized Journalism, Sports Business, 1995
Policy Fellow, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, 2004
Author, This Is Not Florida: How Al Franken Won The Minnesota Senate Recount, published October 2010 by the University of Minnesota Press.
Writer, MinnPost.com, Twin Cities-based news and analysis Web site, November 2007 to present.
Researcher/reporter, NBC/Universal, NBCOlympics.com, Vancouver Winter Olympics, February 2010.
Consultant/writer, Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, special project on college sports finances, March 2009 to present.
Freelance writer, with work appearing in, among others: Sports Business Journal, ESPN.com, USA Today, SportsIllustrated.com, University of Minnesota Alumni Magazine, Delta Sky Magazine, Business Week, Sporting News, Minnesota Monthly, Twin Cities Business, Chronicle of Higher Education, Christian Science Monitor, June 2007 to present.
Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 1980 to June 2007; lead reporter and coordinator on Olympics from 1984-2006; project coordinator and launch director for a hyperlocal Web site; sports feature and sports business writer; lead reporter on stadium issues; Twins beat reporter.
Author, Stadium Games: Fifty Years of Big League Greed and Bush League Boondoggles, University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Sports commentator, Minnesota Public Radio's "Weekend Edition," April 1987 to February 1998; occasional MPR sports analyst, March 1998 to February 2006.
Long Island Newsday, September 1979 to November 1980: major league baseball beat reporter; college football and basketball reporter.
Minneapolis Tribune, September 1978 to September 1979: roving Minnesota state sports correspondent, covering rural, high school and small college sports issues.
Philadelphia Inquirer, September 1977 to September 1978: part-time copy desk; high school sports reporter.
Editor, QUASH, monthly journal of the National Lawyers Guild's Grand Jury Project, New York, January 1978 to September 1978.
Member, first American sports fact-finding delegation to People's Republic of China, January 1976.
Long Island Newsday, Summer 1974, sports intern.
Staff, Institute for the Study of Sport and Society, Oberlin, Ohio, 1972 to 1974.
Contact: jay.weiner@comcast.net
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