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Contributing Editor

Address:
3655 Olive
St. Louis
MO
USA
63108

Telephone: 314-535-NEWS

Information: Dick Weiss, a contributing editor for the St. Louis Beacon, is an award-winning writer and editor with more than three decades of experience at American newspapers, most of them at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He is also the founder of WeissWrite LLC, a company that offers writing, editing and coaching services for anyone with a story to tell.

As an editor and writing coach at the Post-Dispatch until 2005, Weiss oversaw the development of enterprise stories, with a particular emphasis on narrative writing. He also held training seminars for a newsroom staff of 300 reporters and editors, and coached reporters one-on-one. Several stories Weiss wrote and/or edited were nominated for Pulitzer Prizes.

Weiss is a frequent speaker at the American Press Institute and was site director for the National Writers’ Workshop in St. Louis from 2001-2004. He also tours as a speaker for the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism where he shows business writers how to weave their facts and figures into compelling tales.

Weiss is also a media critic. He offers his views at 11:05 a.m. each Monday on the McGraw Milhaven Show on KTRS-550 AM. Podcasts can be downloaded at WeissWrite.com.

Weiss and his wife and business partner, Sally J. Altman, recently co-authored Forest Park: The Jewel of St. Louis, now available in bookstores and online at the Post-Dispatch store. He is also the author of How to be a world famous fabulously successful writer, a witty and irreverent writing guide for students, 9-17. It’s available online at WeissWrite.com.

More information about WeissWrite can be found at WeissWrite.com.

 

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