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Richard Weiss. Richard Weiss is an award-winning writer, editor, and writing coach with more than three decades of experience at newspapers, much of it at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. After leaving the Post-Dispatch in 2005, Weiss started his own company, WeissWrite LLC, a writing, editing, and coaching service for anyone with a story to tell. He is the executive editor and storyteller for the Before Ferguson Beyond Ferguson project.
This essay is published in partnership with Before Ferguson Beyond Ferguson. I'm OK with the first ticket, but the second one you'll have to take...
Journalist Denise Hollinshed, left, has been writing about Beverly Jones for the 63106 Project. This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center as part of Before Ferguson Beyond Ferguson’s 63106 Project, a St. Louis-based nonprofit racial equity storytelling project. When it comes to COVID-19 everyone is vulnerable. Including Beverly Jones, the person whose life I am chronicling as part of Before Ferguson Beyond Ferguson's 63106 Project. Including me. Jones has been a longtime resident and worker in the Preservation Square housing complex in ZIP code 63106. According...
From left, Misha Marshall, Richard Weiss and Leyla Fern King. The 63106 ZIP code houses some of St. Louis’ most vulnerable residents. Located just north of downtown, it includes the largely African American St. Louis neighborhoods of Old North, Carr Square, Columbus Square and Jeff VanDerLou. A Washington University study famously found an 18-year difference in the life expectancy of its residents compared to the largely white, affluent denizens of Clayton’s 63105 ZIP code. Richard Weiss wasn’t content to keep the story in the realm of statistics. Throughout the pandemic, he’s led a t...