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 of you 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:

Margaret Freivogel	Dick Weiss with Terry Ganey
	Judy, Terry, Dick and Rose
Judy Vandewater                             Alice Handelman
	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
The Panel

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
The Jonas Company
505 South Ewing
St. Louis, MO 63103
jobdoc@aol.com

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
Margaret Freivogel
348 Geyer Forest Drive
Kirkwood, MO 63122
mfreivogel@gmail.com
wfreivogel@gmail.com

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.

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
Columbia Daily Tribune
101 N. 4th St.
Columbia, MO. 65201
tjganey@tribmail.com


Judy Vandewater, a former Post-Dispatch business reporter, is editor of Catholic Health World, the journal of the Catholic Health Association
Judith VandeWater
The Catholic Health Association
4455 Woodson Road
St. Louis, MO 63134-3797
jvandewater@chausa.org

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.
Dick Weiss
www.WeissWrite.com
weisswrite@gmail.com
314-645-3399