STLPR assumes that efforts to claw back federal funding will be ongoing. Here's what we're doing to protect our local newsroom, and here's how you can continue to help.

St. Louis Public Radio has won a First Place National Headliner Award for Best Radio Series for “Unsolved,” its months-long investigative series in collaboration with APM Reports and the Marshall Project that explored how police in St. Louis have struggled to solve killings, leaving thousands of family members without answers. This is the third national award for the Unsolved series.

St. Louis Public Radio was awarded seven Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA).

Late on Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut funds for the nation’s public media stations. The cuts would impact NPR, PBS and the more than 1,300 local public media stations across the country, including STLPR.

The 2025 St. Louis Public Radio Teen Photojournalist Prize's top honor was given to a Granite City High School junior.

Jess Luther, a 13-year veteran of St. Louis Public Radio and the current chief of staff, will become the station's interim general manager beginning April 26.

As NPR CEO and President Katherine Maher testifies before a DOGE subcommittee this week about federal funding for public media, we — the leaders of St. Louis Public Radio — urge you to consider the essential public service STLPR provides our community.

The Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Project at the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) has awarded the 2025 Brechner Freedom of Information Award to St. Louis Public Radio, APM Reports and The Marshall Project for their collaborative investigative project, “Unsolved.”

UMSL announces plans to transfer the governance of St. Louis Public Radio to the Friends of KWMU, which currently serves as an independent nonprofit and advisory board.

As the value of public media funding is likely to become a trending topic in the coming year, we’ve put together some common questions on how public media funding works, and what impact a profound realignment of that funding may have on public radio and television in your region, and across the country.