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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a regional newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, serving the St. Louis metropolitan area. It is the largest daily newspaper in the metropolitan area by circulation, surpassing the Belleville News-Democrat, Alton Telegraph, and Edwardsville Intelligencer. The publication has received 19 Pulitzer Prizes. [3]
The Post-Dispatch became the sole St. Louis newspaper, except for a period in 1989 when Ingersoll, by then owner of America’s 12th largest newspaper chain, announced the start of a new morning tabloid newspaper, the St. Louis Sun. It died after a seven-month run, on April 25, 1990, leaving the Post-Dispatch again as a monopoly. [131]
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the city's primary newspaper, published daily. [6] Other papers published in Greater St. Louis include: The St. Louis American, local African-American news, weekly [7] St. Louis Business Journal, business news, weekly [8] The Riverfront Times, progressive alternative weekly [9]
A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Viets has a degree in journalism and became a longtime popular media figure in St. Louis.She was a regular columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for twenty-five years, [1] her columns focusing mostly on local issues and human-interest fare.
The 4-year-old was rushed in a police car to a hospital, where he died, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Police said four children under the age of 10 were in the house with no adults present.
After the war, Broeg joined the St. Louis Star-Times [3] and then the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1945. [4] He was reportedly the most prolific writer in the history of the Post-Dispatch. [4] He penned his final Post-Dispatch column in 2004. [2] He first covered the St. Louis Browns. [4] He was privy to many important events in baseball history.
Gayle, a 42-year-old reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was found dead in her home, having been stabbed up to 43 times with a butcher's knife taken from her kitchen. [2] Marcellus Williams was charged with and convicted of Gayle's murder. Prosecutors presented evidence that included testimonies of Williams' former cellmate, girlfriend ...
1954 The Hillman Prize; 1926; 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, for his cartoon "The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today" in the St. Louis Post Dispatch on April 12, 1926, (the cartoon is known for representing disapproval of the rapid increase of laws and legislation compared to the few laws enacted by Moses); in 1955, for his June 8, 1954 cartoon "How Would Another Mistake Help?"