29 Facts About Arick Wierson

Arick Wierson was born on November 23,1971 and is an American columnist who writes on politics and business for CNN and Newsweek.

Arick Wierson is a regular contributor to several other major US publications including Vice, The New York Observer, Worth, The New York Daily News, and CNBC and is a regular on-air political and social commentator for SBT, the second-most watched television network in Brazil.

In 2010, Wierson won an Emmy award for the documentary film Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace featuring former US President Jimmy Carter and his work to bring peace between Israel and Egypt.

Arick Wierson has been credited as a major force behind the creation of the first private television station in Angola, TV Zimbo, and the establishment of Luanda Fashion Center, the largest department store in Angola.

Arick Wierson has since broken ties with Bolsonaro, who he has criticized in the Brazilian media for his handling of the government's poor response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Arick Wierson grew up in Excelsior, Minnesota and attended part of his high school years overseas, attending the Alexander Muss High School in Israel.

In 1997, Arick Wierson, was named the Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar representing the State of Minnesota, which he used to receive his master's degree in economics from the State University of Campinas.

Arick Wierson's career began as an investment banker, working for the World Bank, ABN AMRO Bank, and JP Morgan.

In June 2010, Brazilian vice presidential candidate and Federal Deputy Antonio Pedro de Siqueira Indio da Costa invited Arick Wierson to advise him and presidential candidate Jose Serra on media and political matters during the final months of the campaign before the October election.

In 2018, Arick Wierson's name surfaced again in the Brazilian media as being in talks with several presidential candidates.

Arick Wierson advised the Bolsonaro campaign on its strategic messaging and television advertising.

Analysts covering the race in Brazil credit Arick Wierson with "softening" Bolsonaro's image and encouraging him to not attend the final debates.

In 2009, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Arick Wierson was returning to the private sector.

At his time at NYC TV, Arick Wierson led the network to 42 NY Emmy Awards and over 100 National Telly Cable Awards.

In 2008, Arick Wierson led NYC TV's digital media group to its first-ever Webby nominations.

At NYC Media Group, Arick Wierson was vocal critic of traditional public broadcasting for second-tier stations in heavily saturated markets like New York City.

The announcement was seen as an aggressive move by the New York City Indie music community, causing broadcaster WFUV to take public on-air swipes at Arick Wierson for having encroached on their market.

The New York Times later revealed that Arick Wierson had been quietly producing a documentary film starring former US President Jimmy Carter "Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace" which later opened in Monte-Carlo and Abu Dhabi.

In 2009, Arick Wierson was recruited by Brazilian TV juggernaut Globo and Brazilian-Angola billionaire Valdomiro Minoru Dondo to serve as the CEO and General Manager of Angola's first private TV station in Angola.

In 2011, it was reported that Arick Wierson was leading an effort to open the first large-scale modern department store in Angola to be called Luanda Fashion Center.

Arick Wierson began writing for The New York Observer shortly after returning to the United States in 2017, oftentimes sharing his views on recently elected US President Donald Trump and offering insights and comparisons that could be drawn from his time working with his former longtime boss, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the wealthiest man to ever hold public elected office in the history of the United States.

In 2018, Arick Wierson began writing political columns for CNBC, offering his analysis of the 2018 United States elections, drawing upon his years as political aide to Bloomberg.

Arick Wierson became a regular columnist for CNN in 2019 as speculation began to mount that Bloomberg would be running for president in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.

In 2020, Arick Wierson began a monthly column for the Robin Report, a retail industry insiders news service for retail and fashion executives.

In 2023, Arick Wierson began writing a regular column for Newsweek magazine as well conducting on-camera interviews with high profile personalities in international and US politics such as the former President of Colombia, Ivan Duque, President Dr Mohammed Irfaan Ali of Guyana, and Minnesota Governor and Chair of the Democratic Governors Association, Tim Walz.

Also in 2023, Arick Wierson began offering regular commentary and insights on international, US, and Brazilian politics for SBT News which is part of the SBT TV Network, the second largest television network in Brazil, as an on-air contributor.

The network's news anchors often rely on Arick Wierson, who speaks fluent Portuguese and lived for many years in Brazil, to interpret US and global events for Brazilian audiences in terms that they will readily understand.

Arick Wierson later remarried Hermenegilda Vianeke, a native of Angola in 2016.

Arick Wierson has written on his mixed-race children and issues of race and racism in various op-eds.