About Me

I’m Rob Weir, the director of digital development at the Columbia Missourian. That’s a fancy way of saying that I’m in charge of all our digital planning, from computer needs to building our new Web site to teaching people how to text message.

Recently, I realized that I’ve been thinking and talking a lot about new media — and especially what we’re up to with our Web site — without necessarily remembering to write down any of my thoughts. So this might serve more as a personal journal than anything else, but at least now I have a spot to jot down some thoughts.

As to who I am — I grew up in a journalism family. My dad’s a longtime newspaper publisher and manager in Missouri and, recently, in Colorado; his dad was a publisher too. So I’ve got ink in my blood. I’ve also worked at a whole lot of newspaper jobs, from the pressroom to the newsroom to the business office. So I have a little bit of experience in a lot of areas.