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.
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Now a buck and a bargain at that
The price of your daily newspaper goes up.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch quietly bumped its newsstand price to a dollar last month -- a 33 percent increase. But Dick Weiss tells McGraw Milhaven it's still a good deal on the McGraw Show on KTRS-AM (550).
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #87
Riding the subway at 9 -- The Week
Lenore Skenazy caused a stir when she let her 9-year-old ride New York City’s subway by himself. In this book excerpt published in The Week, she explains why.
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-- Dick Weiss
Foot-in-Mouth disease more virulent than swine flu ... so far
Swine flu coverage mostly first rate
Joe Biden's assessment of the swine flu epidemic was a gaffe, but so far the media has done a good job covering the illness, Dick Weiss tells McGraw Milhaven on the McGraw Show on KTRS-AM (550).Also the Post-Dispatch loses circulation on weekdays but gains on Sundays -- beating industry trends.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #86
Ever since crash, flying is different -- St. Petersburg Times
Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Lane DeGregory takes you into the world of one of the survivors of Flight 1549 (the Sulley Sullenberger landing in the Hudson). For Casey Jones every flight is a white knuckler.
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-- Dick Weiss
Best of times, worst of times for New York Times and Lee Enterprises
Great journalism trumped by budgetary woes
The New York Times wins five Pulitzer Prizes but sees its debt downgraded to junk status in the same week. The Post-Dispatch's coverage of the Kirkwood shootings also gets recognition in the Pulitzer competition. At the same time, though, parent company Lee Enterprises lays off a Suburban Journals reporter who took a bullet as he was covering the meeting where the shootings occurred. Dick Weiss talks it over with McGraw Milhaven on the McGraw Show on KTRS-AM (550).
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #85
Elks lock horns -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Christine Byers's story in the P-D raises questions of brotherhood, loyalty and the rule of law.
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-- Dick Weiss
Two kinds of farewells
Deanne Lane and Sylvester Brown lose their jobs and react in different ways.
Two prominent local media stars lost their jobs last week. One, Sylvester Brown, held a news conference and leveled charges at his former employer. The other, Deanne Lane, has yet to be heard from. Beacon contributing editor Dick Weiss talks it over with McGraw Milhaven on the McGraw Show on KTRS-AM (550).
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #84
Why I fired my broker - The Atlantic
Jeffrey Goldberg provides a humorous and illuminating account of what went wrong with the financial services industry as far as he and his 401-K are concerned. We provide the link here, but Jeffrey says he wishes you'd buy the magazine. I'm a subscriber.
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-- Dick Weiss
Another steroids story for St. Louis
The New York Times provides an exclusive story about one of our hometown heroes
The New York Times breaks a story about Cardinals third baseman Troy Glaus's use of steroids while with another team. Meanwhile, our hometown paper has taken a passive approach to this and other steroid stories, Beacon contributing editor Dick Weiss tells McGraw Milhaven on the McGraw Show on KTRS-AM (550).
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #83
Waiting for death, alone and unafraid - Los Angeles Times
Edwin Shneidman studied and wrote about death -- and, in particular, suicide --for most of his life. Now at age 90, he is ready to die. "There is no heaven, no hell Happiness lies in the here and now and the satisfaction of living a good life without religion or my to guide you," is the way reporter Thomas Curwen summarizes Shneidman's beliefs as he approahces his last days on earth. "He takes nothing away from others' beliefs," Curwen writes. "He just prefers Moby Dick to the Bible." A moving and somewhat provocative audio slide show accompanies the story.
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-- Dick Weiss
