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I've been a journalist and news executive for 40 years, much of that time at the Anchorage Daily News and almost all of it with McClatchy. I had a chance to help produce Pulitzer winning investigations, win a newspaper war, and work with some of the best people in the world.

I left McClatchy at the end of 2008. I'm writing now, fiction and non-fiction, blogging and serving on the board at Publish2.

More at howard.weaver.org/resume

Narrative biography:

Howard Weaver was born in Anchorage, Alaska in 1950 and was educated at Anchorage public schools. He was graduated from East Anchorage High School in 1968, received a BA degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1972 and a Master of Philosophy degree from Cambridge University in 1993.

Weaver twice lead the Anchorage Daily News to Pulitzer Prizes; he wrote the stories for which the paper won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service, and was editor and a lead writer on the project for which the paper again won the prize in 1989. He was one of three reporters whose coverage of the Alaska Teamsters Union during construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline won the award in 1976. In 1989, the paper won for its coverage of alcoholism and suicide among Alaska Natives.

The newspaper also won numerous national awards for investigative reporting, feature writing, sports coverage, photography and design during his tenure.

Weaver first worked at the Anchorage Daily News while still in high school, covering prep wrestling matches. He later covered summer baseball and went to work full-time at the newspaper after college graduation. He worked as a police reporter, court reporter, legislative correspondent and special projects reporter between 1972-1976. He has also worked as a construction worker, cannery hand and commercial fisherman.

In October, 1976 Weaver was one of five people who started the Alaska Advocate, a statewide weekly newspaper. When it folded in 1979, he returned to the Daily News as an editorial writer. He later served as a daily columnist and was named managing editor in January 1981. He assumed full editorial responsibility in May, 1983.

In 1995, he moved to Sacramento, CA to assume a new position as assistant to the president for new media strategies at McClatchy Newspapers, advising senior management at the company on digital publishing, the internet and other new media issues. He was named editor of the editorial pages for McClatchy Newspapers in January, 1997 and Vice President, News in April, 2001.

Weaver is married to Barbara L. Hodgin; they have no children. Interests outside the newspaper industry include hockey, personal computers, opera and foreign travel. In 1991, he was Distinguished Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He has four times served as a Pulitzer Prize juror by invitation, and is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and other professional organizations. From 1990-1994 he was co-chair of the international association of northern editors, the Northern News Service. In 1998 he was named by an Alaska Public Radio Network survey as one of the 40 most influential Alaskans in the state's first 40 years of history.
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