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.
Nothing but coal in the stockings (and stocks) for newspapers
Will the bleeding stop for newspapers? Unlikely.
The Seattle Times tells its managers to take a week off unpaid. A stock analyst downgrades Lee Enterprises, owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The only good news comes from New Jersey where one small paper is doing quite nicely by refusing to give away its content on the web. Of course that paper only has a staff of three. Dick Weiss and McGraw Milhaven talk it over on the McGraw Show on KTRS-AM (550-AM)
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #72
The Moment of Truth -- St. Petersburg Times
What's a mom to do when her nine-year starts putting two and two together about Santa? Lane DeGregory's story is hilarious.
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-- Dick Weiss
New business model for newspapers: Stop home delivery
Home delivery cuts in the Motor City. Can it happen here?
Newspapers in Detroit are cutting back on home delivery. Will that stop the bleeding or make things worse? Dick Weiss and Paul Harris talk it over on the McGraw Show on KTRS-AM (550-AM)
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Anchors away
Familiar faces disappear from local tv stations; others take pay cuts
Newspapers are sinking fast. But so, too, are news anchors. Many with decades of service in their home towns are getting the heave-ho. Dick Weiss and McGraw Milhaven discuss this and the prospect of no-newspaper towns on the McGraw Show on KTRS-AM (550-AM)
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #71
Caring for Tommy -- Roanoke Times
When her husband, Tommy Rhodes, began to lose ground to dementia, Linda Rhodes made two important decisions. She decided to keep Tommy at home with her as long as possible. And she allowed a reporter and videographer to follow along as she cared for Tommy. This illuminating account is as inspiring as it is bleak.
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-- Dick Weiss
Outsourcing the news
Why hire local reporters when you can cover the news from India?
A Pasadena online news publisher fires his local staff -- paid $600 to $800 a week -- and hires freelancers in India who cover the news by phone and internet. They earn $7.50 for every thousand words. Dick Weiss and McGraw Milhaven discuss this and other topics in the news on the McGraw Show on KTRS-AM (550-AM)
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #70
A mom goes undercover to woo and entrap a juror who convicted her son in a sensational NY murder trial.Now she's trying to use the evidence she gathered to win her boy a new trial. Click on the link above to read this story.
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-- Dick Weiss
Nearly Worthless
Newspapers tied to the tracks and the train whistle can be heard in the distance.
An analyst says the stocks of some media companies are now nearly worthless. Dick Weiss and McGraw Milhaven discuss the the plight of newspapers on the McGraw Show on KTRS-AM (550-AM)
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #69
The day they came for Addie Polk's house -- New Yorker
Peter J. Boyer's poignant story about the day that a sheriff's deputy in Akron, Ohio came to evict 90-year-old Addie Polk from her home. Polk once owned her home outright but after her husband died, predatory lenders talked her into squandering her equity. In despair, Ms. Polk turned a gun on herself, but survived to become a cause celebre.
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-- Dick Weiss
The E-Mail Outrage
The Post-Dispatch, Kansas City Star and AP call the governor's bluff
It took months, but three news organizations get access to e-mails from Gov. Matt Blunt and his staff. The correspondence contradicts what the governor's staff was telling the press and the public. Dick Weiss discusses the e-mail outrage and other media matters with McGraw Milhaven on the McGraw Show on KTRS (550-AM).
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