Joseph Pulitzer

Ellen Back Again: Arnie Robbins steps down as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and RFT checks in with his predecessor

RFT Spring Arts Guide 2012: Visual Arts

Slow Art Day

Occupy St. Louis Graffiti Betrays Taggers' Ignorance of History

​Taggers hit Compton Hill Reservoir Park last night in an "unofficial" response to the police action that took place there last week, spraying pithy slogans like "class war" and "cops, pigs, murderers" on statues and buildings. It's unofficial because Occupy St. Louis has denounced the graffiti in ... More >>

Post-Dispatch Parent Co. Files Bankruptcy on 132nd Anniversary of Paper's Founding

The nearest image of a "face palm" Joseph Pulitzer we could find.​Here's betting that the corporate brass at Lee Enterprises up in Davenport has no idea that today is the anniversary of the founding of the Post-Dispatch. If it did, you'd think it would choose any day but today to officially fi ... More >>

Philosophically Speaking, St. Louis Was to Be Far Superior Than Chicago

We rejoiced in your fire, Chicago. But you got last laugh.​Hard to believe today, but, 140 years ago, one of the most exclusive clubs in town was the St. Louis Philosophical Society. The organization, started by a couple followers of German philosopher Georg Hegel, published the influential journa ... More >>

Mai Tai, Kopperman's Delicatessen

​It has often been said that for a group that makes up such a relatively small percentage of the population, Jews have had a disproportionately huge impact. The world would be a different place without Jonas Salk and his polio vaccine, without Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. The legacy of ... More >>

Planet's Daily News Kiosk's School of Journalism, In Survey Results

Kase WickmanLast week, we told you about the financial woes of the Central West End's beloved Planet's Daily News Kiosk (which, judging by a quick drive past this morning, appears to be selling papers again, as of today!). ​Since then, we've heard from several customers who say that Tony and ... More >>

Missouri History Museum Blog Dishes Out Old News. God Bless It!

Bagnell Dam, circa 1931​Perhaps it's the history major in me. Or maybe it's that I occasionally grow tired of scouring the interwebz all day in constant search of the latest news to report back to you dear, dear reader of Daily RFT. Whatever the case, I've recently enjoyed reading the "news" of ye ... More >>

Was Joseph Pulitzer Gay? And Other Questions Prompted by New Biography

​Author James McGrath Morris is out with the most comprehensive biography to date on St. Louis Post-Dispatch founder and America's first media baron, Joseph Pulitzer. Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power recalls chronicles the Hungarian immigrant's arrival to America his formative years e ... More >>

Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power

​Author James McGrath Morris is out with the most comprehensive biography to date on St. Louis Post-Dispatch founder and America's first media baron, Joseph Pulitzer. Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power recalls chronicles the Hungarian immigrant's arrival to America his formative years e ... More >>

Post-Dispatch Put Sylvester Brown on Paid Leave over Alleged Pay-to-Play, Till Today When He Said, See Ya

Columnist Sylvester Brown says his employer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, put him on paid administrative leave on Friday, March 27, and locked him out of the building over allegations that officials in East St. Louis paid for a trip he took to Washington, D.C. Photo: Nick LucchesiAsked about who he ... More >>

Inside the Post-Dispatch: The View From AJR

American Journalism Review just published a piece about newspaper accuracy where layoffs-meet-the-Internet, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the main character in the 3,530-word article.Only hard-core media wonks will appreciate all three-thousand of those words, so I've taken the liberty of posti ... More >>

From Ozark Wimp to Muscle Man Behind a New York Publishing Empire

amazon.comThere's a new book out chronicling the rags-to-riches tale of Bernarr Macfadden, a sickly child from the Missouri Ozarks who moved to St. Louis in the late 1800s. While in St. Louis Macfadden discovered the virtues of weight-lifting and physical exertion -- even spending some time on the r ... More >>

Former Web Editor at Post-Dispatch Rejoins Post's Old Guard

amazon.comThere's a new book out chronicling the rags-to-riches tale of Bernarr Macfadden, a sickly child from the Missouri Ozarks who moved to St. Louis in the late 1800s. While in St. Louis Macfadden discovered the virtues of weight-lifting and physical exertion -- even spending some time on the r ... More >>

All In A Name

Did the Post-Dispatch deliberately give its new blog the same title as the competition?

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

What does an old Munchkin have to do to earn a place on the St. Louis Walk of Fame?

Virtually New(s)

Ex-Post-Dispatch staffers to launch new online paper.

Arch Madness

A rough guide to St. Louis

Pulitzer's Gain

Some say Pulitzer Inc.'s sale to Lee Enterprises blew in quicker than a shotgun wedding. Others saw it coming a mile away.

Pulitzer's Pain

Banished from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch a decade ago, Joseph Pulitzer IV lives in self-imposed exile in Wyoming. What went wrong?

Tough Love

Out with the Pulitzer Prize, in with the Lee EnterPrize! Plus: Unreal learns a thing or two about loveless marriages, sexually deviant robots and a man who gets lots of our money

Letters

Week of January 21, 2004

Emmy Award

Emily Pulitzer's gift to St. Louis has arrived in a concrete box. Hidden inside: the portrait of a woman who changed the city.

Pulitzer Prized

The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts exhibits a private collection in a public space

"Turtle" Diary

Help the Nazis turn a profit, or let a great artwork be destroyed?

Lost at Sea

Editor Cole Campbell has left in his dinghy, and the mutineers at the Post-Dispatch are jubilant. Now, the flagship is listing and the crew has no idea where it's headed.