Mark Weisenmiller was born on November 26, 1963 in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has liked to write for as long as he can remember. Weisenmiller was encouraged to pursue a possible writing career by a high school English composition teacher, who enjoyed a humorous essay about golf that he wrote. It was also about this time that his interest in broadcasting began, as he was one of innumerable youngsters who built their own primitive styles of radios.
He was graduated from Slippery Rock University and also the Pennsylvania State Universities in the 1980's. Previous to these two events, he began his career in journalism with United Press International (UPI) and also other media outlets in Western Pennsylvania.
Moving to Florida in mid-1988, he reported for both the UPI Print and Radio Divisions; Associated Press (AP) Radio; and the now-defunct but very much missed "The German News" magazine. He was a Florida Correspondent for the international news-wire agency, based in Germany, known as Deutsche Presse Agentur (dpa) during the 1990's. One of his last reporting assignments for UPI was to help to cover the 2000 U.S. Presidential ballot recount matter in the state of Florida.
In 2001, Weisenmiller was hired as a Florida-based reporter for yet another international news-wire agency, the Paris, France-based Agence France Presse (AFP). Along with other AFP reporters, he covered the many stories which were spawned from the September 11, 2001 series of attacks on American commerical airplanes. In 2004, he found work for two London, England-based media outlets: as an occasional contributor of Florida-based stories for "The Economist" and also as a Florida Correspondent for Global Radio News.
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Currently, he is a Florida-based reporter for the international news-wire agency, based in Paris, France, known as Agence France Presse (AFP). Thus for 20 years, and counting, he has been reporting on all Florida-based stories of significance for international media outlets.
He also is a contributor and reporter for a number of national and international magazines, "The Economist" among them, as well as a freelance nonfiction book reviewer.
In 2006, along with other writers, he was a contributor to the book Uncle John Shoots And Scores. Along with other Inter Press Service (IPS) correspondents (he worked for IPS from 2006 to 2008), he was a contributor to the book Crime & Justice: Abolishing The Death Penalty (2007).
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Mr. Weisenmiller is married, and he and his wife and their two children reside in a suburb of Tampa, Florida.
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