The Wall Street Journal has overtaken USA Today as the largest circulation daily newspaper in the country, according to figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulation.
The Wall Street Journal may have celebrated — but for most newspapers the report was dismal.
The…
Christopher Ave, political editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, appeared on radio station KTRS (550) to refute criticism of the newspaper expressed earlier this week by talk show host Paul Harris.
Here’s a link to the interview.
Harris had criticized the Post-Dispatch for…
The Columbia Journalism Review — which identifies itself as “both a watchdog and a friend of the press in all its forms” — has endorsed FactCheck and PolitiFact as good online sites for verifying claims being made during the current debate over health care.
The Editors’…
We received an interesting press release from KSDK yesterday that helped to put STLtoday.com’s dominance of the St. Louis market in perspective.
The release said : “Ksdk.com continues to be St. Louis’ home page. The website had robust content surrounding the…
Slate.com is conducting an experiment aimed at answering that question. For three days this week — Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday — Slate has two teams of readers trying to stay abreast of the news through different sources.
On one side:
- Two (mostly) newspaper…
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…
Our last two days have brought record traffic to STLtoday. We thank you for helping make us the No. 1 news site in St. Louis. As part of our All-Star coverage, we experimented with several new storytelling tools. You were kept…
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…
As any reader of STLtoday.com can attest, story comments can sometimes get nasty. STLtoday.com has clear guidelines about what’s fair and not fair to say in comments.
A list of the forbidden: “Messages containing intentionally misleading or false information, defamatory content, threats,…
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