The ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' is a major regional newspaper based in
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the Greater St. Louis, ...
, serving the
St. Louis metropolitan area. It is the largest daily newspaper in the metropolitan area by circulation, surpassing the ''
Belleville News-Democrat
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'', ''
Alton Telegraph'', and ''
Edwardsville Intelligencer
The ''Edwardsville Intelligencer'' is an American daily newspaper in Illinois based in Edwardsville. The paper is circulated in Edwardsville, Glen Carbon, and nearby rural areas.
The newspaper was founded in 1862. In 1960, longtime owner and ...
''. The publication has received 19
Pulitzer Prizes
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.
The paper is owned by
Lee Enterprises
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of
Davenport, Iowa
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, which purchased
Pulitzer, Inc. in 2005 in a cash deal valued at $1.46 billion.
Platform
On April 10, 1907,
Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer ( ; born Pulitzer József, ; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' and the ''New York World''. He became a leading national figure in ...
wrote what became known as the paper's
platform
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:
I know that my retirement will make no difference in its cardinal principles, that it will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.
History
Early years
In 1878, Pulitzer purchased the bankrupt ''St. Louis Dispatch'' at a public auction and merged it with the ''St. Louis Evening Post'' to create the ''St. Louis Post and Dispatch'', whose title was soon shortened to its current form. He appointed
John A. Cockerill as the managing editor. Its first edition, 4,020 copies of four pages each, appeared on December 12, 1878.
In 1882,
James Overton Broadhead
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ran for Congress against John Glover. The ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', at Cockerill's direction, ran a number of articles questioning Broadhead's role in a lawsuit between a gaslight company and the city; Broadhead never responded to the charges. Broadhead's friend and law partner,
Alonzo W. Slayback
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, publicly defended Broadhead, asserting that the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' was nothing more than a "blackmailing sheet." The next day, October 13, 1882, Cockerill re-ran an offensive "card" by John Glover that the paper had published the prior November (November 11, 1881). Incensed, Slayback barged into Cockerill's offices at the paper demanding an apology. Cockerill shot and killed Slayback; he claimed self-defense, and a pistol was allegedly found on Slayback's body. A grand jury refused to indict Cockerill for murder, but the economic consequences for the paper were severe. Therefore, in May 1883, Pulitzer sent Cockerill to New York to manage the ''
New York World
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'' for him.
The ''Post-Dispatch'' was one of the first daily newspapers to print a
comics
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section in color, on the back page of the features section, styled the "Everyday Magazine."
20th century
At one time, the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' had the second-largest
news bureau
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in Washington, D.C., of any newspaper in the
Midwestern United States
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.
After Joseph Pulitzer's retirement, generations of Pulitzers guided the newspaper, ending when great-grandson Joseph Pulitzer IV left the company in 1995.
The ''Post-Dispatch'' was characterized by a
liberal
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Arts, entertainment and m ...
editorial page
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and columnists, including
Marquis Childs
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Early life and education
Childs was born on March 17, 1903, in Clinton, Iowa. He graduated from Lyons High Sch ...
. The editorial page was noted also for
political cartoon
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s by
Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, who won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons, and
Bill Mauldin
William Henry Mauldin (; October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003) was an American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the ...
, who won the Pulitzer for editorial cartoons in 1959.
Several months prior to the anniversary edition, the newspaper published a 63rd-anniversary tribute to "Our Own Oddities", a lighthearted feature that ran from 1940 to 1990.
On May 22, 1946, the ''Post-Dispatch'' became the first newspaper in the world to publish the secret protocols for
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
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.
During the presidency of
Harry S. Truman
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, the paper was one of his most outspoken critics. It associated him with the
Pendergast
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machine in
Kansas City
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, and constantly attacked his
integrity
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.
In 1950, the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' sent a reporter, Dent McSkimming, to
Brazil
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to cover the
1950 FIFA World Cup
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. The reporter paid for his own travelling expenses and was the only U.S. reporter in all of Brazil covering the event.
In 1959 the ''
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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Orig ...
'' entered into a joint operating agreement with the ''Post-Dispatch''. The Post–Globe operation merged advertising, printing functions and shared profits. The ''Post-Dispatch'', distributed evenings, had a smaller circulation than the ''Globe-Democrat'', a morning daily. The ''Globe-Democrat'' folded in 1983, leaving the ''Post-Dispatch'' as the only daily newspaper in the region.
In August 1973 a
Teamsters
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union representing ''Globe'' and ''Post-Dispatch'' staffers went on strike, halting production for six weeks.
21st century
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On January 13, 2004, the ''Post-Dispatch'' published a 125th-anniversary edition, which included some highlights of the paper's 125 years:
* Coverage of
Charles Lindbergh
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, who flew across the Atlantic despite being denied financial or written support from the ''Post-Dispatch.''
* A Pulitzer Prize-winning campaign to clean up
smoke pollution in St. Louis. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the city had
the filthiest air in the United States.
* Sports coverage, including nine
St. Louis Cardinals
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championships, an NBA title by the
St. Louis Hawks
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in 1958, and the 2000 Super Bowl victory of the
St. Louis Rams
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The arr ...
.
* Coverage of the city's "cultural icons" including
Kate Chopin
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,
Tennessee Williams
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,
Chuck Berry
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, and
Miles Davis
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.
On January 31, 2005, Michael Pulitzer announced the sale of Pulitzer, Inc. and all its assets, including the ''Post-Dispatch'' and a small share of the St. Louis Cardinals, to
Lee Enterprises
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of
Davenport, Iowa
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, for $1.46 billion. He said no family members would serve on the board of the merged company.
As of 2007, it was the fifth-largest newspaper in the
midwestern United States
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and the 26th-largest newspaper in the U.S.
On March 12, 2007, the paper eliminated 31 jobs, mostly in its circulation, classified phone rooms, production, purchasing, telephone operations and marketing departments. Several rounds of layoffs have followed.
On March 23, 2009, the paper converted to a
compact
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style every day from the previous
broadsheet
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Sunday through Friday and
tabloid on Saturday.
On May 4, 2012, the ''Post-Dispatch'' named a new editor, Gilbert Bailon.
In 2015, the paper was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for its coverage of protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
Circulation and cost
Circulation dropped for the daily paper from 213,472 to 191,631 and then 178,801 for the two years after 2010, ending on September 30, 2011, and September 30, 2012, respectively. The Sunday paper also decreased from 401,427 to 332,825 and then to 299,227.
[As of September 30, 2012 ] The circulation as of September 30, 2016, was 98,104 daily and 157,543 on Sunday.
According to a 2017 press release from Lee Enterprises, the paper reaches more than 792,600 readers each week and stltoday.com has roughly 67 million page views a month.
The paper sells for $2 daily or $4 on Sundays and Thanksgiving Day. The price may be higher outside adjacent counties and states.
Sales tax
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is included at
newsracks.
Weatherbird
On February 11, 1901, the paper introduced a front-page feature called the "Weatherbird", a cartoon bird accompanying the daily weather forecast. "Weatherbird" is the oldest continuously published cartoon in the United States. Created by
Harry B. Martin, who drew it through 1903, it has since been drawn by Oscar Chopin (1903–1910);
S. Carlisle Martin (1910–1932);
Amadee Wohlschlaeger
Amadee Wohlschlaeger (December 3, 1911 – June 24, 2014) was a 20th-century American sports cartoonist in St. Louis. He was known professionally as simply "Amadee", which was how he signed his cartoons. He was a long-time sports cartoonist for ...
(1932–1981); Albert Schweitzer, the first one to draw the Weatherbird in color (1981–1986); and Dan Martin (1986–present).
Notable people
*
Jerry Berger, society columnist, 1980–2004
*
Bob Broeg
Robert William Patrick Broeg (March 18, 1918 – October 28, 2005) was an American sportswriter.
Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, he officially covered the St. Louis Cardinals for forty years. He graduated from Cleveland High School ( ...
, Hall of Fame baseball writer, 1946–2004
*
Jacob Burck
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, political cartoonist, 1937–1938
*
Cole Charles Campbell, editor, 1996–2000
*
Richard Dudman, national affairs correspondent and Washington bureau chief, 1950–1981
*
Daniel R. Fitzpatrick
*
Derrick Goold
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, author and sportswriter
*
Rick Hummel
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, Hall of Fame baseball writer, 1971–present
*
Clair Kenamore, foreign correspondent, telegraph editor, feature writer and Sunday magazine editor, early 20th century
*
Joe Mahr
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Life
He was born in Genoa, Ohio and attended Genoa Area High School and the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University, where he obtai ...
, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, 2006–2009
*
Rose Marion (ca. 1875-1947), feature writer
*
Harry B. Martin, cartoonist and golf writer
*
S. Carlisle Martin, cartoonist and illustrator
*
Marguerite Martyn
Marguerite Martyn (September 26, 1878 – April 17, 1948) was an American journalist and political cartoonist with the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' in the early 20th century. She was noted as much for her published sketches as for her articles.
...
, reporter and artist (born ca. 1880, died 1948)
"Marguerite Martyn Dies; Artist, Writer," ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch,'' April 17, 1948, page 5A
*Bill Mauldin
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, cartoonist
* Bernie Miklasz
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, sports columnist, 1985–2015
* Robert Minor
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Robe ...
, political cartoonist, 1907–1911
* Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer ( ; born Pulitzer József, ; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' and the ''New York World''. He became a leading national figure in ...
, publisher
* Charlie Ross, chief Washington correspondent and editor, 1918–1945
* Neal Russo
Aniello "Neal" Russo (June 12, 1920 – March 6, 1996) was an American sportswriter.
Russo was one of 14 children born to Italian immigrants and grocers Thomasina and Pietro Russo in Farrell, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Farrell High School in ...
, baseball writer and copy editor, 1947–1990
* Elaine Viets
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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 ...
, columnist, 1975–2000
* Rosa Kershaw Walker
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society column, 1870s
* Joe Williams, film critic, 1996–2015
*Amadee Wohlschlaeger
Amadee Wohlschlaeger (December 3, 1911 – June 24, 2014) was a 20th-century American sports cartoonist in St. Louis. He was known professionally as simply "Amadee", which was how he signed his cartoons. He was a long-time sports cartoonist for ...
, sports cartoonist
* William Woo, journalist and editor-in-chief, 1962–1996
See also
*''St. Louis Globe-Democrat
The ''St. Louis Globe-Democrat'' was originally a daily print newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1852 until 1986. When the trademark registration on the name expired, it was then used as an unrelated free historically themed paper.
Orig ...
'', a major competing St. Louis daily newspaper, located one block away on the same street, closed in 1986
* '' St. Louis Sun'', a short-lived competing daily newspaper started in 1989
* 100 Neediest Cases, an annual charitable giving campaign sponsored in part by the ''Post-Dispatch''
* ''Riverfront Times
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'', the St. Louis weekly newspaper
* ''The Sporting News'', a sports magazine that was started in St. Louis
References
Further reading
*Jim McWilliams
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Artist's books, design, and teaching
McWilliams has been active as a graphic ...
, ''Mark Twain in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1874–1891'' (Troy, New York: Whitston Publishing Company, 1997).
* Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. ''The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers'' (1980) pp 286–93
* Daniel W. Pfaff, ''Joseph Pulitzer II and the Post-Dispatch: A Newspaperman's Life'' (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991).
*Julian S. Rammelkamp
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, ''Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, 1878–1883'' (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1967).
* Charles G. Ross and Carlos F. Hurd, ''The Story of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' (St. Louis: Pulitzer Publishing, 1944).
*''The St. Louis Post-Dispatch as Appraised by Ten Distinguished Americans'' (St. Louis, 1926).
*Orrick Johns
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, ''Time of Our Lives: The Story of My Father and Myself'', (New York, 1937). George Sibley Johns
George Sibley Johns (1857–1941) was an American journalist, most notable as editor of the '' St. Louis Post-Dispatch''.
Biography
Johns was born in St. Charles, Missouri, to John Jay Johns and Jane Amanda Durfee. He was named after George Cha ...
, father of the author, was editor of the ''Post-Dispatch'' for many years, and was the last of Joseph Pulitzer's "Fighting Editors".
*Dan Martin Daniel Martin may refer to:
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*Dan Martin (drama educator) (born 1953), American academic
*Dan Martin (cyclist) (born 1986), Irish road bicycle racer
*Dan Martin (footballer) (born 1986), Britis ...
, ''The story of the First 100 Years of the ''St. Louis Post Dispatch ''Weatherbird'' (St. Louis, 2001).
External links
*
''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' Archive (1874–present)
''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' photographs
at the University of Maryland Libraries
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Finding aids at the St. Louis Public Library
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The ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' is a major 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-De ...
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The ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' is a major 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-De ...
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