Arick Wierson

Wierson grew up in Excelsior, Minnesota and attended part of his high school years overseas, attending the Alexander Muss High School in Israel. He graduated from Minnetonka High School (1990), later graduating cum laude from Georgetown University (1994) with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Foreign Service.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}} In 1997, 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 (UNICAMP).{{cite web |url=http://www.eco.unicamp.br/teses/mest_economia.html |title=Instituto de Economia |access-date=2007-07-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807221126/http://www.eco.unicamp.br/teses/mest_economia.html |archive-date=2007-08-07 }} Wierson's career began as an investment banker, working for the World Bank, ABN AMRO Bank, and JP Morgan.{{cite web|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a9587.asp|title=Career Advice|work=Mediabistro}}

In 2001, billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg{{cite web|url=http://digitalcontentproducer.com/mag/video_civil_service_television/|title=News, Features, Reviews, Forums and Resources for the Professional Content Creator - Creative Planet Network}} recruited Wierson to aid him in his first bid to become the 108th Mayor of New York City. During the campaign, Wierson oversaw field operations which combined traditional electioneering and voter profiling databases, which political analysts point to as the campaign that ushered in a new era of technically sophisticated, statistical, voter profiling for political operations in the country.

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Wierson is known to be close to maverick political strategist Bill Hillsman, who has asked Wierson to lecture in his courses at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University on several occasions.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eh1Vph-3j0AC&q=arick+wierson+bill+hillsman&pg=PR13|title=Run the Other Way|isbn=9780743238595|last1=Hillsman|first1=Bill|date=April 26, 2004|publisher=Simon and Schuster }} In June 2010, Brazilian vice presidential candidate and Federal Deputy Antônio Pedro de Siqueira Indio da Costa (Democrats) invited Wierson to advise him and presidential candidate José Serra on media and political matters during the final months of the campaign before the October election.{{cite web |url=http://www.portaldatelevisao.net/2010/08/e-os-candidatos-vice-voces-consideram.html |title=Portal da Televisão -> TV: E os candidatos a vice? Vocês consideram eles na hora de escolher o candidato? |access-date=2010-08-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100826051831/http://www.portaldatelevisao.net/2010/08/e-os-candidatos-vice-voces-consideram.html |archive-date=2010-08-26 }} Wierson is said to have declined the invitation due to "ongoing engagements in Angola."http://revistapiaui.estadao.com.br/materia/ego-nas-alturas{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

In 2018, Wierson's name surfaced again in the Brazilian media as being in talks with several presidential candidates. Although it was initially widely reported in major Brazilian news outlets that a marketing and political consulting firm closely associated with Arick Wierson had been working to elect Brazilian businessman-turned candidate presidential candidate João Dionisio Amoêdo and the New Party (Brazil), multiple reports later indicated that Wierson was in fact advising the campaign of presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro who was elected President of Brazil in October 2018. Wierson advised the Bolsonaro campaign on its strategic messaging and television advertising. Analysts covering the race in Brazil credit Wierson with "softening" Bolsonaro's image and encouraging him to not attend the final debates. It is suggested that Wierson impacted the outcome of the race by repositioning Bolsonaro as more moderate and inclusive in an effort to lower the candidate's negatives.{{cite web|author=Notícias da TV |url=https://noticiasdatv.uol.com.br/noticia/televisao/televisao-perdeu-relevancia-na-campanha-eleitoral-dizem-marqueteiros--22635 |title=Televisão perdeu relevância na campanha eleitoral, constatam marqueteiros · Notícias da TV |publisher=Noticiasdatv.uol.com.br |date=2019-01-28 |access-date=2019-03-07}}{{cite web|url=https://renovamidia.com.br/jair-bolsonaro-comeca-a-divulgar-manifesto-a-nacao/|title=Jair Bolsonaro começa a divulgar 'Manifesto à Nação'|date=26 September 2018|website=renovamidia.com.br}}

During his tenure at NYC Media working under New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Wierson led the flagship NYC TV station to 160 Emmy nominations, while personally being nominated on 29 different occasions for the role of Executive Producer in the creation of various programs. To date he has won five Emmy awards for his role as the Executive Producer of the nationally syndicated Secrets of New York{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-28-na-secrets28-story.html|title=City TV dons stilettos and vinyl|work=Los Angeles Times|date=May 28, 2007 }}

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}} as well one Emmy for his role as Executive Producer of the feature documentary film "Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace" which featured former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, former Secretary-General of the U.N. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Dr. Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. Secretary of State and CNN's Wolf Blitzer, among other notables.

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{{cite web|url=http://ticketing.abudhabifilmfestival.ae/eng/film.aspx?ID%3D2148 |title=Film | ADFF |access-date=2010-10-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706062314/http://ticketing.abudhabifilmfestival.ae/eng/film.aspx?ID=2148 |archive-date=2011-07-06 }}{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2010/film/reviews/back-door-channels-the-price-of-peace-1117944010/|title=Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace|first=Jay|last=Weissberg|work=Variety|date=November 9, 2010}}{{cite press release|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/back-door-channels-the-price-of-peace-to-air-on-public-television-nationwide-beginning-january-2012-131158368.html|title='Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace' to Air on Public Television... -- NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --|author=Fisher Klingenstein Films|date=5 October 2011}}{{cite news| url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118038863?refCatId=13&query=Back+door+channels | work=Variety | first=Dave | last=McNary | title='Peace' doc roll out set | date=2011-06-21}} The film deals with the 1979 Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt and the unlikely circumstances and behind-the scenes jockeying that led to its coming to fruition.{{cite web|url=http://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews.asp?id=90091 |title='Back Door Channels' to Open 49th Monte Carlo Television Festival |access-date=2016-03-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222052059/http://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews.asp?id=90091 |archive-date=2012-02-22 }}

In 2009, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Wierson was returning to the private sector.{{cite web|url=http://www.channelproductionfilms.com|title=- Channel Production Films -}}

Broadcasting & Cable Magazine described Wierson as "one of the most important people in New York media". Under Wierson, NYC TV expanded from a local cable operation to a broad array of broadcast, cable, production, online video and syndication entities, organized under the name of NYC Media.{{cite web

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}} At his time at NYC TV, Wierson led the network to 42 NY Emmy Awards and over 100 National Telly Cable Awards. In addition to Secrets of New York, Wierson played a role in the creation of many of the network's original series' productions including $9.99, Eat Out NY, New York 360*, and The Bridge. In 2008, Wierson led NYC TV's digital media group to its first-ever Webby nominations.

At NYC Media Group (since rebranded as NYC Media), Wierson was vocal critic of traditional public broadcasting for second-tier stations in heavily saturated markets like New York City.{{cite web|url=http://gothamist.com/2006/05/22/wnyc_tv_love_it.php|title=NYC TV - Love It or Hate It|work=Gothamist|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914090936/http://gothamist.com/2006/05/22/wnyc_tv_love_it.php|archive-date=2008-09-14}} In 2005, Wierson disbanded the station's long-held PBS status, enabling NYC TV's original shows to take over prime-time{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/22/nyregion/22nyctv.html?pagewanted=2&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/B/Bloomberg,%20Michael%20R | work=The New York Times | title=One Television Station, and Countless Hours, Devoted to Pulse of New York Life | first=Winnie | last=Hu | date=2006-05-22 | access-date=2010-04-25}} "It was smart not to be the 'fifth channel,' said Dalton Delan, executive vice president of WETA in Washington and producer of the PBS News Hour. You don't want to be the triple-A team. You want to find a new ballpark where you can be No. 1."NEW YORK TIMES, "One Television Station, and Countless Hours, Devoted to Pulse of New York Life" filed by Winnie Hu, 5.22.06 In August 2006, Wierson, Unger and Bloomberg appeared in the NBC studios, joined WNBC General Manager Francis X. Comerford and former NBC Station Group President Jay Ireland in announcing a partnership between NYC TV and NBC flagship station WNBC{{cite web|url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1117948489.html?categoryid=14&cs=1|title=NYC TV shows to WNBC|first=Addie|last=Morfoot|work=Variety}} Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who began Bloomberg Television as part of his media empire, knew better than most the value of a city television station, his aides said."

In addition to the TV business, Wierson is also credited with leading a complete overhaul of WNYE 91.5 FM, with new formats for morning and afternoon drive-time programming, re-branding itself as "Radio New York" and in partnership with live coast-to-coast music feeds from Seattle-based alternative rock station KEXP.{{cite web|url=http://jazzchill.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html|title=JAZZ CHILL|author=Jazz Chill}} 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 Wierson for having encroached on their market.{{cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/tv/27691/air-raid|title=Air raid|work=Time Out New York}} On March 5, 2009, Wierson, along with NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, announced that WNYE, after being in Brooklyn since 1938, was moving its radio broadcast operations to Manhattan, and was unveiling a new digital transmitter, capable of transmitting multiple in-band HD radio streams.

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Over the years that Wierson was at the helm of New York City's media assets, he was known to spar with several public officials who were critical of the Bloomberg Administration. New York City Councilwoman Gale Brewer, who at the time represented Manhattan's Upper West Side on the City Council and had oversight over telecommunications and technology (she is now the Manhattan Borough President{{cite web |url=http://manhattanbp.nyc.gov/html/home/home.shtml |title=Manhattan Borough President - Home |publisher=Manhattanbp.nyc.gov |access-date=2019-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190314041633/https://www.manhattanbp.nyc.gov/html/home/home.shtml |archive-date=2019-03-14 |url-status=dead }}), regularly criticized the Bloomberg media and communications operation as being "too flashy" with its focus on fashion, celebrity, and other topics she viewed as inconsistent with the mission of the network.

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While at NYC Media, Wierson also taught as an adjunct professor of business at the MBA program at Metropolitan College of New York (formerly known as Audrey Cohen College) lecturing on the business of media and television.

In 2009, Mayor Bloomberg announced Wierson was stepping down as President of NYC Media Group, saying "Over the past seven years, Arick Wierson and his team transformed NYC TV into one of the nation's best television stations. After helping build the station virtually from scratch, Arick oversaw the merger of NYC TV with WNYE-TV and WNYE (FM), creating the largest local media group in New York that now reaches hundreds of thousands of people every day. NYC TV's 160 New York Emmy nominations and 42 awards serve as a testament to Arick's vision, tenacity, and leadership and to the excellence of the media group he was instrumental in creating. I have no doubt that Arick's entrepreneurial and creative talents, which helped him achieve great things at NYC TV will serve him well as he rejoins the private sector..."{{cite web|url=http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2009a%2Fpr187-09.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1STATEMENT|title=NYC.gov}}

The New York Times later revealed that Wierson had been quietly producing a documentary film starring former U.S. President Jimmy Carter "Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace" which later opened in Monte-Carlo and Abu Dhabi.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/movies/back-door-channels-the-price-of-peace.html |title=Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace |work=The New York Times |first=Daniel M. |last=Gold |date=September 15, 2011 |access-date=March 23, 2017}}

In 2009, Wierson was recruited by Brazilian TV juggernaut Globo (conglomerate) and Brazilian-Angolan billionaire Valdomiro Minoru Dondo to serve as the CEO and General Manager of Angola's first private TV station in Angola.{{cite web |title=What It's Like to Work for Billionaires: The Good, the Bad and the Notable |url=https://observer.com/2017/03/working-for-billionaires-michael-bloomberg/ |website=observer.com |date=16 March 2017}}

In 2011, it was reported that Wierson was leading an effort to open the first large-scale modern department store in Angola to be called Luanda Fashion Center.{{cite web|url=http://mulher.sapo.ao/moda-beleza/tendencias-novidades/atelier-xl-uma-nova-solucao-163644-0.html|title=Moda e Beleza|work=SAPO Lifestyle|access-date=2012-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122211925/http://mulher.sapo.ao/moda-beleza/tendencias-novidades/atelier-xl-uma-nova-solucao-163644-0.html|archive-date=2015-01-22|url-status=dead}}

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Luanda Fashion Center was acquired by the Brazilian retailer, Morena Rosa Group in 2014.{{cite web|url=http://portal.morenarosagroup.com:9090/noticias/Paginas/Diretor-visita-lojista-do-Grupo-na-Angola.aspx |title=Diretor visita lojista do Grupo na Angola |publisher=Portal.morenarosagroup.com:9090 |access-date=2019-03-07}}:pt:Morena Rosa Group{{Circular reference|date=March 2019}}

In the spring of 2018, in the wake of a failed attempt to bring the 2023 World's Fair to Minnesota,{{cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-loses-bid-for-2023-world-s-fair/457750723/ |title=Minnesota loses bid for 2023 World's Fair; Argentina wins instead |publisher=StarTribune.com |date=2017-11-15 |access-date=2019-03-07}} it was reported that Wierson, former General Mill's Chief Marketing Officer Mark Addicks, and publicist Kathryn Tunheim joined forces with The Medical Alley Association, The Mayo Clinic, and Walmart to launch [https://www.manovasummit.com/ The Manova Global Summit on the Future of Health].{{cite web|last=Kennedy |first=Patrick |url=http://www.startribune.com/inaugural-manova-global-health-summit-kicks-off/496015871/ |title=Inaugural MANOVA Global Health Summit kicks off |publisher=StarTribune.com |date=2018-10-08 |access-date=2019-03-07}}

Wierson began writing for The New York Observer shortly after returning to the United States in 2017,{{cite web |title=Forget Mexico: Trump Needs Bloomberg's 'Chinese Wall' |url=https://observer.com/2017/01/donald-trump-first-billionaire-president/ |website=Observer.com |date=12 January 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,{{Cite web|url=https://observer.com/2017/03/working-for-billionaires-michael-bloomberg/|title=What It's Like to Work for Billionaires: The Good, the Bad and the Notable|website=The New York Observer |date=March 16, 2017}} the wealthiest man to ever hold public elected office in the history of the United States. In 2018, Wierson began writing political columns for CNBC,{{cite web |last1=consultant |first1=Arick Wierson, political and branding |title=In 2018 midterms, Democrats must win this House race-commentary |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/28/this-california-race-could-crush-democrats-hopes-in-the-2018-midterms-commentary.html |website=www.cnbc.com |date=28 February 2018}} offering his analysis of the 2018 United States elections, drawing upon his years as political aide to Bloomberg. Later that year he began doing political analysis for Vice{{cite web |title=Mitt Romney Might Become Trump's Next Great Nemesis |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/mitt-romney-might-become-trumps-next-great-nemesis/ |website=Vice.com |date=December 14, 2018 |language=en}} as well. It was also in 2018 that Wierson was invited to offer political commentary for CNN both as an on-air analyst as well as for the network's website.{{cite web |last1=Wierson |first1=Arick |title=Why Trump chickened out of going to Peru |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/10/opinions/trump-chickened-out-summit-americas-opinion-wierson |website=www.cnn.com |language=en |date=10 April 2018}} 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 a column for the Observer, after Bloomberg famously dismissed speculation he would be running for president in 2020, Wierson famously labeled the New York billionaire as the "Obi-Wan Kenobi of the Democratic Party, more powerful in his political afterlife than he ever was as an elected official or as a potential presidential candidate."{{cite web |title=By Not Running for President, Michael Bloomberg Is Now the Obi-Wan Kenobi of Democrats |url=https://observer.com/2019/03/michael-bloomberg-democratic-force-2020-election-trump-demise |website=Observer.com |date=8 March 2019}}—a meme Bloomberg would use as part of his political messaging once he entered and then dropped out of the presidential race after a disastrous showing on Super Tuesday, 2020.{{cite web |last1=Glennon |first1=Jen |title=Bloomberg says he's Obi-Wan to Trump's Vader, so is Biden Luke Skywalker? |url=https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/bloomberg-trump-star-wars-obi-wan-kenobi-darth-vader-tweet |website=www.inverse.com |date=March 4, 2020 |language=en}}

With the Observer moving to decidedly less political coverage by 2018 due to the outlet being owned by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner,{{cite web |last1=Seelye |first1=Katharine Q. |title=Developer's Son Acquires The New York Observer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/31/business/media/31observer.html |website=www.nytimes.com |date=31 July 2006}} Wierson began to focus his writing on disruption and innovation in business.{{Cite web|url=https://observer.com/author/arick-wierson/|title=Arick Wierson|website=The New York Observer }} His annual list of "The Hottest Companies in 'Flyover tech'" has become a staple of the outlet's "Power Lists."{{cite web |title=Power List |url=https://observer.com/tag/power-list/ |website=observer.com}} In 2019, Wierson began writing for the upscale Worth (magazine) on a range of topics spanning healthcare, innovation, philanthropy, and other topics of interest to the magazine's ultra-high net worth readers,{{cite web |title=Arick Wierson, Author at Worth |url=https://www.worth.com/awierson/ |website=www.worth.com}} including interviews with famous business leaders.{{cite web |title=Life Time Founder Bahram Akradi Says 'COVID-19 Is a Wake-Up Call' |url=https://www.worth.com/life-time-founder-bahram-akradi-says-covid-19-is-a-lucky-break |website=www.worth.com |date=1 April 2020}}{{cite web |title=Jeff Fritz on Icario and Health Care in a Post-COVID World |url=https://www.worth.com/jeff-fritz-icario-health-care-post-covid-world/ |website=www.worth.com |date=5 January 2021}}{{cite web |title=An Inside Look at the US Fintech Company With Its Finger on the Pulse of Gen Z |url=https://www.worth.com/an-inside-look-at-the-us-fintech-company-with-its-finger-on-the-pulse-of-gen-z/ |website=www.worth.com |date=8 July 2020}} In 2020, Wierson began a monthly column for the Robin Report, a retail industry insiders news service for retail and fashion executives.{{cite web |title=Arick Wierson, Author at The Robin Report |url=https://www.therobinreport.com/author/awierson |website=www.therobinreport.com}}

In 2023, Wierson began writing a regular column for Newsweek magazine{{cite web | url=https://www.newsweek.com/america-can-do-more-protect-its-children-opioid-overdose-opinion-1830900 | title=America Can do More to Protect Its Children from Opioid Overdose | website=Newsweek | date=October 4, 2023 }} as well conducting on-camera interviews with high profile personalities in international and U.S. 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.{{cite web | url=https://www.newsweek.com/guyana-flexes-its-diplomatic-muscles-un-security-council-president-opinion-1870820 | title=Guyana Flexes Its Diplomatic Muscles as U.N. Security Council President | website=Newsweek | date=February 16, 2024 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.newsweek.com/latin-americans-leaders-venezuela-looms-large-us-presidential-election-opinion-1897219 | title=For Latin Leaders, Venezuela Looms Large in U.S. Presidential Election | website=Newsweek | date=May 6, 2024 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.newsweek.com/democratic-governors-are-sharp-end-spear-bidens-re-election-efforts-opinion-1901202 | title=Democratic Governors Are the Sharp End of the Spear in Biden's Re-Election | website=Newsweek | date=May 16, 2024 }}

Also in 2023, Wierson began offering regular commentary and insights on international, U.S., 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.{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YqUCGZiaVg | title=Atentado a Trump une republicanos e divide democratas, avalia analista político | website=YouTube | date=July 15, 2024 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZiwtV71gUo | title=Especialista analisa relação de EUA e Brasil com a Guiana | website=YouTube | date=May 24, 2024 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=388aGirA2m0 | title=Analista político comenta as articulações da direita norte-americana | website=YouTube | date=March 22, 2024 }} The network's news anchors often rely on Wierson, who speaks fluent Portuguese and lived for many years in Brazil, to interpret U.S. and global events for Brazilian audiences in terms that they will readily understand.{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=388aGirA2m0 | title=Analista político comenta as articulações da direita norte-americana | website=YouTube | date=March 22, 2024 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPFWsHxn67Q | title=Donald Trump e Joe Biden disputam votos nos Estados Unidos | website=YouTube | date=May 17, 2024 }}

From 2000 to 2013 Wierson was married to Fabiana Mesquita-Wierson, a former executive at Bloomberg, LP with whom he has one daughter, Isabella Wierson. He later remarried Hermenegilda Vianeke, a native of Angola in 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1768480/bio|title=Arick B. Wierson|website=IMDb}} Together they have two children, Haakon and Gabriella. Wierson has written on his mixed-race children and issues of race and racism in various op-eds.{{cite web |last1=Wierson |first1=Opinion by Arick |title=White dad with Black kids: George Floyd was my wake-up call |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/opinions/white-dad-black-kids-george-floyd-wake-up-call-wierson/index.html |website=www.cnn.com|date=June 19, 2020 }}[https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/07/opinions/letter-to-black-daughter-kamala-harris-vice-president-elect-wierson/index.html open letter on CNN.com]

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