About Brad Weisenstein

WEISENSTEIN, BRAD is the multimedia editor at the Belleville News-Democrat, a 60,000-circulation newspaper, and bnd.com, its Web site with 400,000-plus monthly unique visitors, both covering the Illinois side of the St. Louis metropolitan area. His responsibilities include supervising four photojounalists/videographers and three spot-news team mojos in various phases of “mo.” He handles special projects, such as a weekly feature called “Our War” that shares experiences of World War II veterans through text, stills and video. He worked for the News-Democrat as a features writer for a year after college. He spent two years editing a journal for optometrists, which necessitated a season living in Alaska to work the gross eyeball images from his brain. He returned to the News-Democrat and has been there more than 20 years as a city desk reporter and editor. His experiences helping at the Sun Herald in southern Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina led him to gravitate towards the mojo-text-visual world in November. He lives with his wife and junior high dancer-jock daughter, with occasional visits from his college-aged drama daughter, as well as a horse, pony, Labrador retriever and black cat. He is an avid reader, loves sport bikes, hiking, tinkering, music, Kurosawa and coaching Odyssey of the Mind.