Religion & Spirituality
Business & Finance
My news and feature stories stand out for the detailed reporting skills I gained on the money beat, which includes staff positions at Editor & Publisher and MediaWeek and as Jane Bryant Quinn’s associate on her syndicated Washington Post column on personal finance. Since 2001, I’ve had news stories, features, real-time reporting, profiles, blogs, and an e-book on personal finance and investing published in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, TheStreet.com, The Star-Ledger, NJ Biz, and on businessjournalism.org, the website of the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation for Business Journalism.
During the financial crisis of 2007-2009, I co-authored Asset Allocation For Dummies® and also ghosted or edited six trade books with nationally-recognized financial experts, three of which became New York Times best-sellers.
But midway through blogging for businessjournalism.org (2018-2021), I started heading in a new direction. In June, I’ll finish writing a book about the stories I grew up listening to my father tell about my grandfather. Money certainly was at the heart of his decision to leave South Italy’s impoverished Mezzogiorno at the turn of the twentieth century.
I’m looking for assignments to write about saving and investing for retirement, planning and managing health care costs, but I want to look at other topics where money plays a critical role. The posts I wrote on nursing homes during visits to my beloved Aunt Jo in 2020 and 2021 during the pandemic are good examples of where the money beat is leading me. You can find them on my website (https://www.doriperrucci.com). I’d be happy to hear from you through Linked In or by email at doriperrucci@gmail.com.
Subjects
General
Specialties
Personal finance, saving and investing for retirement, managing health care costs.
Skills
- Books
- Essays
- Feature writing
- News
- Op-Ed
- Television
- Technical writing
Writing Credits
“When Pensions and Unemployment Checks Don’t Mix,” Personal Business, The New York Times, Sunday Money & Business
“Rebalancing Act—A Guide to Getting your Allocations Back on Track,” The Wall Street Journal
“A Buck Here, A Buck There,” and “Talking ‘Bout My Generation,” in Make Your Money Grow Finance Guide, Newsweek
“Searching for Savings at Form 1040 Time,” Your Money Now, Newsweek
Amy Grant Wants Fans to Say, ‘I’ll Think About That,” Religious News Service
I Feel Like I Committed a Crime,” The (Morristown, NJ) Daily Record, two-part series on abortion choices
Book Credits
Personal Finance and Investing
Asset Allocation For Dummies, Jerry A. Miccolis and Dorianne R. Perrucci, John Wiley & Sons (Hoboken, NJ, May 2009)
The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide: Protect Your Savings, Boost Your Income, and Grow Wealthy Even in the Worst of Times, Martin D. Weiss, John Wiley & Sons (Hoboken, NJ, April 2009)
Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy (Third Edition), Jane Bryant Quinn, Simon & Schuster (New York, December 2009)
The AARP Retirement Survival Guide: How to Make Smart Financial Decisions in Good Times and Bad, Julie Jason, Sterling Publishing (New York, August 2009)
I.O.U.S.A., One Nation, Under Stress, In Debt, with Addison Wiggin and Kate Incontrera, John Wiley & Sons (Hoboken, NJ, September 2008)
The Demise of the Dollar…and Why It’s Even Better for Your Investments, Addison Wiggin, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons (Hoboken, NJ, April 2008)
Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People, Jane Bryant Quinn, Simon & Schuster (New York, January 2006)
Weiss Ratings’ Ultimate Guided Tour of Stock Investing, Senior Editor, Weiss Ratings Inc.(Jupiter, Fla., 2004)
Social Issues:
Reclaiming Your Life After Diagnosis: The Cancer Support Community Handbook (Second Edition), Kim Thiboldeaux and Dr. Mitch Golant, Ben Bella Books, Dallas, TX, June 2012
Sometimes God Has a Kid’s Face/God’s Lost Children/Are You Really There, God? (Covenant House, New York, NY January 2010, 1999, and January 2010 and January 1988). (*One million copies in circulation)
“Reaching Out to High-Risk Adolescents,” Courage to Care, Responding to the Crisis of Children with AIDS, Gary R. Anderson, Editor, The Child Welfare League of America, Washington, D.C, March 19
Runaways: Coping At Home and On the Street, With Pat Connors, Rosen Publishing Group, New York, NY 1989
It Only Hurts When I Grow: Stories from Covenant House for Hurting Kids, with Fr. Kevin Kenny, Paulist Press, Mahwah, NJ, August 1988
Covenant House/Lifeline to the Street, Bruce Ritter, Doubleday, New York, February 1987
“A Dead End, An Open Door,” published in: Street Children, a Growing Urban Tragedy, Susanna Agnelli, (Report for the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues, The United Nations, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1986)
Social Studies
Morris County: The Progress of Its Legend, (Windsor Publications, Woodland Hills, CA, February 1984)
New Neighbors, Old Friends, A Photographic History of the Italians of Morristown, NJ, The Morris County (NJ) Historical Society (Morristown, NJ, 1982)
Religion & Theology
Bloomfield Avenue: A Jewish-Catholic Jersey Girl’s Spiritual Journey, Dr. Linda A. Mercadante, Cowley Publications, Boston, MA, September 2006
Victims and Sinners, Spiritual Roots of Addiction and Recovery, Dr. Linda A. Mercadante, Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, KY, January 1996
Gender, Doctrine, and God: The Shakers and Contemporary Theology, Dr. Linda A. Mercadante, Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN, October 1990
Selected Work
As author, unless indicated otherwise.
