Jeff Weinstein
The media make a potentially fatal mistake by dividing arts coverage into high and low, old and young, and by trivializing our passionate attraction to things.
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Jeff Weinstein’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Based in New York, I’ve been an editor of arts coverage at New York’s Soho Weekly News (1977-79); of visual arts and architecture criticism and much else at the Village Voice (1981-95, with a stint as managing editor of Artforum); of the fine arts at the Philadelphia Inquirer (1997-2006); of arts and culture at Bloomberg News (2006-07). I was deputy director of the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program and associate director of the NEA Arts Journalism Institute of Theater and Musical Thea…
Interview
See all 19 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
High-school paper. First paycheck? San Diego Reader, 1971 or '72.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Of course. I'm old.
How is social media changing news?
Not enough space to answer.