Steve Weinberg, MA Biography
- Title:
- Author and freelance magazine writer
- Position:
- Not Clearly Pro or Con to the question "Should the Death Penalty Be Allowed?"
- Reasoning:
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“[J]ournalists like myself who have written extensively about wrongful convictions understand that innocent defendants have been executed – before DNA testing could prove prosecutors wrong; before we grasped the frequency of mistaken eyewitness testimony, false confessions, and the lies of jailhouse snitches cutting secret deals with district attorneys.”
“Dead Men Walking Away From Justice,” Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 28, 2004
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Author and freelance magazine writer
- Professor of Magazine Journalism, Missouri School of Journalism
- Senior contributing editor, Investigative Reporters and Editors Journal
- Alicia Patterson Fellow, 1997-1998
- Former Executive Director, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.
- Education:
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- MA, Missouri School of Journalism
- BA, Missouri School of Journalism, 1970
- Other:
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- Frequent expert witness for defendant media organizations that have been sued for libel
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