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Finding Your Footing in a Topsy-Turvy Media World
Newspapers staffs are shrinking. Journalists must consider buyouts or the prospect of layoffs. Free-lancers and college grads are wondering where to turn for their next assignment or job. And yet opportunities for modern communicators are expanding as more readers get familiar and comfortable with online media
For those who missed it:
You can find podcasts for each of the speakers at the Press Club-Newspaper Guild forum -- Finding Your Footing In a Topsy-Turvy Media World -- at www.weisswrite.com.
The next generartion of journalists: Kalen Ponche,as an example. Check out her blog here
Pictures from the event:
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Dick Weiss with Terry Ganey
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Judy Vandewater
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Alice Handelman
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Judy, Terry, Dick and Rose
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The Panel
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Contact Info:
Rose: jobdoc@aol.com
Margaret: mfreivogel@gmail.com
Bill: wfreivogel@gmail.com
Terry: tjganey@tribmail.com
Judy: jvandewater@chausa.org
Dick: weisswrite@gmail.com
Headliner: Rose Jonas, the Job Doctor. She 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
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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 William Freivogel
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William Freivogel, 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.
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Terry Ganey is the projects editor for the Columbia Daily Tribune, a former state capital bureau chief for the Post-Dispatch and a former correspondent for the Associated Press. His disclosure of Missouri's Second Injury Fund scandal helped send seven men to federal prison and made him one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting. He has written two New York Times bestsellers. As an embedded journalist with the U.S. Army, he covered the Iraq War in 2003
Terry Ganey
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Judy Vandewater, a former Post-Dispatch business reporter, is editor of Catholic Health World, the journal of the Catholic Health Association
Judith VandeWater
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Dick Weiss, a former metro editor and writing coach at the Post-Dispatch, is founder of WeissWrite LLC, a writing, editing and coaching service for students, journalists, business professionals and anyone with a story to tell. Since leaving the Post-Dispatch in December of ’05 he has conducted writing workshops in more than three dozen cities.
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