Thanks to all who commented and voted in the Editors’ Desk poll about story comments.

The results were clear: The way we’re handling story comments isn’t working. That opinion is shared by numerous editors at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com, including…

Editors this morning shut down readers’ ability to comment on the story “Drugs played no role in Coleman slayings.”   Before the shutdown, the story drew 1,189 comments. Many of them were inappropriate, some vulgar.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com staffers try…

The media journal Editor & Publisher asked that as its Question of the Day on its online site last Thursday, and the query made us curious about STLtoday.com readers.

E&P got a mix of responses, some saying they read newspapers for local news…

This note to readers from Editor Arnie Robbins and Managing Editor Pam Maples appears on Page A2 of Friday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Today’s Post-Dispatch includes a free-standing Business section that focuses on local business trends and company news, with an increased…

Here’s an example of a mistake in today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch that irritates readers but won’t result in a published correction.  A reader identifying herself as “Ye old schoolmarm” sent an email noting:

“In Madoff story from AP, p. 6, column…

The author of  the “Biographer’s Craft” writes in a column on WashingtonPost.com that spam filters have been blocking his  noncontroversial online monthly newsletter because of some of the words he uses — words like “young adult” and “hot.”

The author, James McGrath Morris, suggests…

A vacation week’s worth of voice messages produced few comments from readers last week. One  complained about the playfulness of these two headlines on last Thursday’s front page:

“Bellwether — or not” (A headline on a story that said McCain’s win in Missouri…

The press is making too much about an increase in gun sales since Barack Obama’s election victory, media critic Jack Shafer writes in his Press Box blog on Slate.com.

In an article titled “Crazy about guns: The press spooks its readers…

Page One teaser

Veterans Day — like the anniversaries of D-Day and Pearl Harbor — carries expectations for certain readers. Many expect the Post-Dispatch to note the occasion with a “Page One story.”

Our Veterans Day coverage today prompted three readers to…

St. Louisans clamored to get copies of the Post-Dispatch edition reporting the historic election of Barack Obama. Wednesday’s paper sold out quickly, even though tens of thousands more copies were printed.  Currently, the second printing of a commemorative Extra Edition…