Bill weir born in 1967 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is american journalist and television co-host on Nightline ABC. He has a degree in journalism and creative writing from Pepperdine university in Malibu, California. Before this he was a long-term co-host of Good Morning America Weekend edition.
Weir start his career in 1991 as a reporter, general stores and weekend sports KAAL in Austin, Minnesota.
Weir went to anchor WGN Morning News WGN in Chicago from 1995 to 1998. Weir was a sports anchor at KABC-TV in Los Angeles from 1998 to 2002, where he hosted the popular weekly Monday night in a live program that aired after Monday Night Football. Between 2002 and 2004, he developed, wrote and hosted three television pilots in the U.S. and FX network.In June 2007, Weir was appointed leading magazine ABC News “iCaught.” As a writer and anchor, he prepared a special watch for the network on topics ranging from religion to science on brain growth and the fall of General Motors.
He went along the flooding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, escaped the bullets of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2010 and led the network coverage of Iraq where things are in the midst of the American contingent.
Now he took a ride on a Red Bull Air Race on Thursday ahead of the weekend race in New York.
In July 2010, he was named co-anchor on Nightline in place of Martin Bashir.
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