EVERY WRITER NEEDS AN EDITOR. Some are fortunate to have good ones; others have bad ones, and many have none at all. If you are in the latter two categories, Dick Weiss can help.
Dick offers workshops and provides one-on-one coaching in person or by e-mail for journalists, freelance writers, students, communications professionals, and those who have simply got a story to tell.
Dick has 30 years experience as an award winning reporter, editor and writing coach, most of them at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Visit "About WeissWrite" for a bio and writing samples.
Rose Jonas: Preparing For Your Next Job In Communicatons
Listen to Rose's advice.
Rose Jonas is known to millions as TV's "Job Doctor" and is the author of Can I Lie On My Resume? Strategies that WIN the Career Game. The Job Doctor helps companies and individuals shape significant, life-changing outcomes. Contact Rose at jobdoc@aol.com.
Margaret Freivogel: Launching An Online Publication
Listen to Margaret Freivogel talk about The Platform
Margaret Freivogel, a former assistant managing editor at the Post-Dispatch, is the editor of The Saint Louis Platform, a nascent online site that will provide enterprise journalism and commentary for and about the St. Louis region. Freivogel hopes to launch The Platform by the end of the year. Contact Margaret at mfreivogel@gmail.com.
William Freivogel: Moving From A Newspaper To The Ivory Tower
Listen to William Freivogel talk about training young journalists.
William Freivogel, a former assistant editor of the Post-Dispatch editorial page, is now the director of the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Associate Professor with the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. He is also helping with The Platform.
Contact William at wfreivogel@gmail.com.
Terry Ganey: Moving From One Newspaper To The Next
Listen to Terry Ganey talk about his experience as a project editor at the Columbia Daily Tribune.
Judith VandeWater: Taking Your Reporting Skills Into The Business World
Dick Weiss: The Journalist As Entrepreneur
Listen to Dick Weiss talk about starting a business.
Sink Anchorwoman
Anchorwoman sinks to a new low for broadcast journalism. Listen to or download the podcast.
I could have run an alluring picture of a model atop an anchor desk as a way of getting you to pay attention to my diatribe against the new reality series Anchorwoman on Fox. But then I would just be playing into the hands of the producers of this farce. Maybe I am anyway. But this series deserves a broadside (so to speak). It chronicles the hiring of a woman who once modeled scanty garments and has no journalism experience. Now she's broadcasting the news at a television station in Tyler, Texas. Listen to my take and that of Victoria Babu (a former anchorwoman) on the McGraw Show on KTRS (550 AM).
Dick's media segment airs each Monday at 11:05 a.m.
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Sportswriters, Spare Us The Literary Cliches
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote : "There are no second acts in American lives." And yet that line has been trotted out by journalists for more curtain calls than anyone can count. Dick Weiss and McGraw Milhaven call for a moratorium on the McGraw Show on KTRS (550 AM).
Dick's media segment airs each Monday at 11:05 a.m.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #12
Enjoy a chuckle and shed a tear over the demise of the Weekly World News -- one of those trashy tabloids that kept breaking the big stories. Like, for example , Elvis is alive and well and living in Kalamazoo. Read Peter Carlson's account in the Washington Post.
-- Dick Weiss
The Buyout Blues Revisit the Post-Dispatch
More journalists set to leave the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Listen to or download the podcast.
The Post-Dispatch is offering veteran staffers another buyout meaning the newspaper's ability to produce enterprise journalism will be diminished further. Two years ago, the paper lost a thousand years of journalism experience with a buyout that trimmed 40 newsroom staffers. Dick Weiss and McGraw Milhaven discuss the ramifications on KTRS (550 AM).
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