Steve Weiner, president, is a writer, editor, strategic communications consultant and one-time Alaskan broadcaster. He has co-owned and operated Readmore Communications for 31 years, and before that spent 22 years in journalism, including as a consumer economics/retailing reporter for the Wall Street Journal; Chicago bureau manager for Forbes magazine; reporter and news editor for The Associated Press in Washington, Alaska and Illinois; city editor of the Eugene (OR) Register-Guard, and night city editor of the Seattle Times. Weiner also co-founded and served as editorial director and editor of Forward, a business thought-leadership magazine that served the global economics and public policy informational needs of senior executive management in the industrial metals industry. He has reported on business issues internationally from Europe (including France, Hungary, the former Czechoslovakia and Poland), and from Asia (including South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong).
As a public relations practitioner, Weiner has worked with an eclectic mix of companies of all sizes, including such Fortune 500-sized companies as Baxter International, Smithfield Foods, Sara Lee Corporation, Inland Steel Industries, Sears, Roebuck & Company, Harley-Davidson Credit, Alliant Foodservice, the Marmon Group, Keebler Co., and Thomas & Betts; technology companies such as i2 Technologies, Scala Business Solutions and Epitope, Inc., and a range of other health care, manufacturing and banking clients.
Weiner's education clients have included the public school districts of Chicago, Philadelphia, and St. Louis; the Illinois State Board of Education and its early childhood education division; The Center: Resources for Teaching and Learning; the Portland Schools Foundation, and two corporately sponsored education programs, the Corporate/Community Schools of America, and the Civic Committee of Chicago’s initiative to create a new teacher recruiting program for Chicago’s schools. Weiner also served as a consulting English-language editor to the Stockholm University’s School of Business.
In addition to more than a dozen awards earned by Forward magazine for editorial content and design, Weiner's work has been recognized with a Triad Award (granted jointly by the Chicago chapters of the National Investor Relations Institute, the Investment Analysts Society and the American Institute of Graphic Arts) for annual reports. He is a former member of the board of directors of Harley-Davidson's Eagle Credit Corporation and its Eagle Financial Trusts. Weiner was also a co-winner of the Alaska Broadcaster of the Year award for his work to establish The AP's first voice news service in the state.
He holds APR accreditation from PRSA and the NSPRA, and a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Washington, Seattle. Weiner lives in the Chicago area with his wife, writer Teresa Barker, two cats and a poodle.
As a public relations practitioner, Weiner has worked with an eclectic mix of companies of all sizes, including such Fortune 500-sized companies as Baxter International, Smithfield Foods, Sara Lee Corporation, Inland Steel Industries, Sears, Roebuck & Company, Harley-Davidson Credit, Alliant Foodservice, the Marmon Group, Keebler Co., and Thomas & Betts; technology companies such as i2 Technologies, Scala Business Solutions and Epitope, Inc., and a range of other health care, manufacturing and banking clients.
Weiner's education clients have included the public school districts of Chicago, Philadelphia, and St. Louis; the Illinois State Board of Education and its early childhood education division; The Center: Resources for Teaching and Learning; the Portland Schools Foundation, and two corporately sponsored education programs, the Corporate/Community Schools of America, and the Civic Committee of Chicago’s initiative to create a new teacher recruiting program for Chicago’s schools. Weiner also served as a consulting English-language editor to the Stockholm University’s School of Business.
In addition to more than a dozen awards earned by Forward magazine for editorial content and design, Weiner's work has been recognized with a Triad Award (granted jointly by the Chicago chapters of the National Investor Relations Institute, the Investment Analysts Society and the American Institute of Graphic Arts) for annual reports. He is a former member of the board of directors of Harley-Davidson's Eagle Credit Corporation and its Eagle Financial Trusts. Weiner was also a co-winner of the Alaska Broadcaster of the Year award for his work to establish The AP's first voice news service in the state.
He holds APR accreditation from PRSA and the NSPRA, and a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Washington, Seattle. Weiner lives in the Chicago area with his wife, writer Teresa Barker, two cats and a poodle.