Name Gil Weinreich | Role Journalist | |
Books Who Really Wrote the Bible?: And why it Should be Taken Seriously Again Education University of California, Berkeley, American University | ||
Gil Weinreich is an American journalist, author and the editor since 1997 of the financial trade magazine Research (magazine). As of June 2010 this magazine's subscription base was about 90,000 investment advisors. During his time as editor of Research, The New York Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) awarded Research magazine's editors and writers the award for Excellence in Financial Journalism in each of the seven years from 2003 to 2010. Weinreich himself won the award in 2003 and 2004 for a column he wrote in 2003-2004 called “The Ethical Advisor.”
Life and career
At Research, Weinreich has participated as a speaker, panelist or moderator at numerous industry conferences — from the World Series of ETFs to the Retirement Income Industry Association to various broker-dealer conferences; he’s lectured on ethics at Credit Lyonnais and keynoted at Dalbar’s financial professional conference.
Before he began his work at Research, Weinreich worked for Voice of America (VOA) as an international news reporter. Here he wrote news for VOA broadcasts, mainly on the Africa and Mideast desks, and covered international news events, and was responsible for the production of live news shows, documentaries and feature programs. He also won a journalism award for his coverage of breaking events in the Middle East. Before Research and VOA, early on in his career, he worked at U.S. News & World Report in Washington, D.C., where he produced the weekly letters page.
In 2010 Weinreich published his first book, Who Really Wrote the Bible? which prompted appearances on the Michael Medved show and other national radio programs.
Weinreich received his Master’s degree at American University in Washington, D.C., where he studied international relations and served as a teaching assistant for a graduate colloquium on the European Union, taught in French. He earned his bachelor’s degree at U.C. Berkeley, in political science.