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.
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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 to a recent study, 67 years is the average life expectancy for a child born in 2010 in that ZIP code. That compares to an 85-year life expectancy in 63105, the region s most prosperous ZIP code, also known as Clayton. And this was before the pandemic.
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