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.
Covering Two Tragedies
The death of Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock and Bill Moyer's indictment of the mainstream media in the lead up to the Iraq War were the topics of conversation on the McGraw Show this week on KTRS-AM.. Click the link above to listen to the podcast. To see Moyer's first-rate program, follow this link. Bill Moyers Journal.
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Spare Us The Baldwin Diatribe
Download Dick's take on the Alec Baldwin case and how the media handled the Virginia Tech shootings
The mainstream media should have kept Alec Baldwin's tirade against his daughter out of print and off the air, Dick Weiss tells McGraw Milhaven on KTRS. On the other hand, NBC handled its responsiblilities well when it aired a portion of the manifesto sent to the network by Seung-Hui Cho.
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Ban The Exclamation Point!
Download Dick Weiss's reasoned rant against the exclamation point
Exclamation points are the bane of reasonable and reasoned writing, Dick Weiss proclaimed this week on the McGraw Milhaven show. You can listen to his rant by clicking on the link above or read the following screed.
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Our Top Flight Speakers Bureau
Several months ago, Dick Weiss formed a speakers bureau with four award winning journalists -
- Sylvester Brown, Todd Frankel, and Aisha Sultan of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times. All (along with recent addition Rick Horowitz) have made their mark at newspapers in a variety of ways -- moving readers with their stories, righting wrongs, and stimulating intelligent debate.
But Dick also believed they had something to say from a podium that could inspire, entertain and educate writers at a high school, college or professional level. Sylvester has the ability to keep an audience spellbound with stories from his difficult youth and his struggle to make it as a writer. Todd, a consummate storyteller, shows writers in step-by-step how they can 
turn a mundane assignment into a small masterpiece or get an enterprise story into the paper in a very short period of time. Aisha, a young Muslim mother, speaks movingly about how we can help readers move past stereotypes through effective interviewing techniques and research to get to the heart of a story about minority communities. And effervescent Lane both delights and informs 
audiences with the techniques she uses to track down the quirkiest people in some of the oddest places. Those stories have won her acclaim and a devoted following in South Florida.
Recently Dick,Todd, Aisha and Sylvester spoke at the New York Press Association before hundreds of editors and reporters. (Lane had a conflict and couldn’t make it.) Evaluation sheets were handed out and the marks were incredibly high. Almost all of them rated us excellent or good.
We're sharing some of the comments on our work here in the hope you will consider us as speakers for your next event. Click here to learn more about the speakers and here to learn more about Dick and the workshops that he offers. To schedule any or all of us, send an e-mail to weisswrite@gmail.com.
The comments:
Will the Post-Dispatch Dump Its NewsWatch & Everyday sections?
Dick's Picks: The Nation's Best Business Stories
The Dish on Tony LaRussa and Fred Thompson
Storytelling In A Topsy Turvy Media World
3-19-07: WeissWrite On The Air
Missouri Miracle Podcast
