Jay Weiner

Jay Weiner is a Minnesota-based writer with a wide-range of journalism and executive communications experience. For more than 30 years, he covered social issues on the Minnesota sports scene, most notably following the decades-long battles over stadium and arena financing.

His book, "Stadium Games: Fifty Years of Big League Greed and Bush League Boondoggles," was the product of this reporting. It was published in 2000.

Another area of expertise was Olympic sports. Weiner reported on every Winter and Summer Olympics from 1984 to 2010. Most of that work was for the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune.

In 2008, Weiner was asked by editors at startup MinnPost.com to “help out” on coverage of the Al Franken-Norm Coleman U.S. Senate recount. That led to eight months of daily recount coverage for MinnPost, reporting that earned him Minnesota’s top journalism prize, the 2009 Frank Premack Public Affairs Award for breaking news.

It culminated in him authoring, "This Is Not Florida: How Al Franken Won The Minnesota Senate Recount," which was published in 2010.

From 2011 to 2018, Weiner was the speechwriter for University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler, promoting the University's impact across the state, nation, and world. During those years, Weiner got to know beloved University history professor Hy Berman. That helped form the partnership that produced, "Professor Berman: The Last Lecture of Minnesota's Greatest Public Historian," which was published in 2019.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Weiner attended Oberlin College and is a graduate of Temple University. He is currently at work on his next book.