Rex Weyler - Journalism

Journalism

• 1973 with the North Shore News in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, first as a photographer and reporter and later as Editor and Associate Publisher.

• 1975 and 1980, Weyler co-founded and served as publisher and editor of the original Greenpeace Chronicles newspaper. It was one of the first international environmental publications, with stories by writers Robert Hunter, Paul Watson, John Lilly, Kitty Tucker, Ben Metcalfe, and David Garrick, and art and cartoons by cartoonists Ralph Steadman and Ron Cobb.

• 1979 and 1982, Weyler served variously as publisher and writer for the Boston-based New Age Journal. He was prominent among the editors and writers of Rick Fields's popular Zen-oriented self-help book Chop Wood, Carry Water: Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in Everyday Life (Tarcher, 1984).

• 1998, Weyler and Joel Solomon formed a company to purchase and publish Shared Vision Magazine in Vancouver, B.C. Weyler served as publisher and editor until 2001. They sold the magazine in 2002 to Dragonfly Media. Weyler maintained his monthly column in Shared Vision until 2004 and as of 2008 serves as Editor-at-Large.

• 2007, Weyler founded the Institute for Citizen Journalism to broaden input to international media.

As of 2007 Weyler appears regularly online in The Tyee. He has appeared on CBC, BBC, Air America Radio, and other radio networks with commentary on ecology and current events. His stories and photographs have appeared in the Utne Reader, New York Times, National Geographic, The Liberal, and other journals.