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On Nov. 19, a Reuters news-service story sent shock waves through the St. Louis journalism community--Pulitzer Inc., the parent company of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was up for sale. Nearly [...]

Editor's note: As I write this I don't know the results of the election and as you read it--if there are no legal battles--you do. No matter. Because I want [...]

When conservatives accuse the press of being liberal, liberals often point to the surveys conducted by Editor & Publisher during the last 50 years. Those surveys show that in every [...]

On May 1, an editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch read: 'Without a new ballpark, the Cardinals will leave St. Louis ... The question for those who think the team [...]

In one way, St. Louisans are lucky. The area's newspaper of record, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is locally owned. Although Pulitzer Inc. is publicly traded, the major shareholders are closely [...]

Scott Decker, professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, feels that crime-reporters should undertake in-depth analyses to establish the context for the crime instead of simply reporting the details. Media coverage of crime is simplistic, alarmist and racist, as the percentage of its focus on crimes committed by blacks upon whites is more than the percentage of such crime. An examination of the periodic rise and fall of crime rates demonstrates that demographical phenomenon such as the predominance of young people between the ages of 15 and 29 and social factors such as unemployment influence crime rate.

Tim Nuell, KTVI (Channel 2) writer and videotape editor, graduated from the University of Missouri's School of Journalism in 1988. His first job out of college was with the Suburban [...]

A conversation with Harper Barnes When the announcement was made on June 13, a lot of people were surprised. For years, Harper Barnes had been a mainstay at the St. [...]

If other cities are any example, St. Louis television viewers can soon expect a prolonged period of mass confusion. On Aug. 7, KTVI (Channel 2) and KDNL (Channel 30) will [...]

This is the first of a two-part series. Nearly everyone agrees that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch - the once-proud flagship of the Pulitzer empire - is no longer an important [...]

It is a mainstay of the St. Louis community and the second most-watched public television station in the nation, but recently KETC (Channel 9) has been surrounded by controversy. Last [...]

When the St. Louis Journalism Review first asked Gail Pennington if she would be available for an interview, she laughed. 'I'm not a deep thinker,' she said. 'I don't sit [...]

KMOX Radio Ad Exec Chris Miller couldn't resist his own imitations of syndicated loudmouth Rush Limbaugh. He put his own verve for invective to work in a March letter to [...]

We very well may be moving into the post-consolidation era of American newspapers. For more than 20 years the trend has been fewer and fewer giant corporations buying more and [...]

For years, journalists in St. Louis and across the country have watched in dismay as media behemoths swallowed up smaller news operations in a craze of consolidation and convergence. Now, [...]

In a shocking move, KDNL (Channel 30) told its newsroom on Sept. 28 that it was dropping newscasts from the station's schedule. Forty seven staffers will be out of work [...]

Sometimes great art foreshadows or helps define real events. In the month before the Sept. 11 at tacks, Francis Ford Coppola released a new version of his masterpiece, 'Apocalypse Now.' [...]

A couple of nights after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bill O'Reilly of Fox News' 'O'Reilly Factor' said this: 'I think the president is doing a great job, and if I [...]

Major League Baseball--the national pastime and St. Louis' secular religion--is in trouble. A combination of sky-high free-agency salaries for ballplayers and vastly unequal incomes for owners is threatening to tear [...]

When Vermont Senator James Jeffords left the Republican Party last month, throwing the Senate to the Democrats, the media seemed confused. They kept asking 'why now?' The pundits explained that [...]

Most people believe that newspapers make their money selling advertising. That's not exactly the case. Newspapers make money by selling audiences to advertisers. It's an important distinction. Not understanding the [...]

Imagine traipsing out to your front lawn one fine, warm Sunday morning to pick up your copy of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and then taking it back to the kitchen [...]

As SJR goes to press, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has ended an eight-month search for an editor to replace Cole C. Campbell. On Wednesday, Dec. 6, Publisher Terrance C. Z. [...]

Word around the newsroom of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is that Terry Egger is a 'good guy.' He's the kind of publisher who enjoys having a beer with his reporters [...]

This issue of the St. Louis Journalism Review marks the end of our 30th year of publication. During that time, SJR has given the St. Louis metropolitan area vast amounts [...]

The Riverfront Times (RF7) recently settled a discrimination complaint filed against the newspaper by the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Council. The cost of the settlement was 52 weeks [...]

Life used to be simpler. Water came into your home through a pipe. Electricity came through wire. And your TV reception depended on how you turned the rabbit ears. Now [...]

The St. Louis Journalism Review believes in competition. This would be a better place to live if the St. Louis Globe-Deomcrat and the St. Louis Sun were still around. So [...]

Charles Jaco is probably the best-known journalist in St. Louis right now. A veteran NBC and CNN foreign correspondent, he arrived in town exactly five years ago to take up [...]

The sale of Sinclair Communications' six radio stations and one television station in St. Louis is getting closer. But as the process drags on, some in the industry wonder if [...]

The first issue of the St. Louis Journalism Review appeared on newsstands in the autumn of 1970. That means, of course, that we just began our 30th year of publication. [...]

Journalism professors are constantly telling their students to write articles that are accurate, fair and balanced. The first two are fairly easy to explain. But what does 'balanced' mean exactly? [...]

What good is the First Amendment right to publish information if you can't get the information to publish? Or, to put it another way, the right to gather information must [...]

It looks like KDNL (Channel 30) will soon add a 6 p.m. newscast to its schedule. The buzz around town is that the 6 p.m. news will debut sometime in [...]

They aren't journalists, but they play them on TV. They have books to sell, axes to grind and scores to settle. The public thinks of them as 'the media.' They [...]