Sarah Palin posed in gym shorts for a photo taken for Runner’s World magazine — and months later it shows up as the cover of Newsweek, for a story about Palin and politics.
The whole incident is being called unethical, sexist…
UPDATE: Protests over health care reform disrupted Rep. Russ Carnahan’s town hall forum on aging Thursday night in south St. Louis County. Six people were arrested outside after the forum, including St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Jake Wagman. Here’s a link…
Has the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s coverage of the swine flu story been responsible? Would you characterize it as thorough, excessive or lacking?
The topic seems inescapable. Nationally, swine flu has been the top story on TV and radio news, and has…
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At our afternoon stand-up news meeting today, one of our editors asked if President Barack Obama’s appearance tonight on Jay Leno should be one of our front-page stories. At the time, it wasn’t in the four-story lineup — and…
Christopher Ave, an assistant Metro editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, tells fellow staffers that singing and recording is his favorite hobby. At least, that’s what he says on his staff bio. He’s used his musical talent to pay homage…
Drawing a parallel to the question of identifying crime suspects by race — an issue recently debated on our “A Conversation about Race” blog — the Miami Herald’s ombudsman examines whether it is right to reveal a suspect’s immigration status in…
The president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, Ted Rall, says he doesn’t think Wednesday’s New York Post chimpanzee cartoon was racist. But he sure doesn’t think it was very good.
Rall said the cartoon was a “misfire” and a too-common…
