Ashley Lisenby
News DirectorAshley Lisenby is the news director of St. Louis Public Radio. She comes to STLPR from NPR’s Weekend Edition where she was a producer and editor. Lisenby previously worked in this newsroom as a reporter and in local newsrooms in D.C., Tampa, Springfield, Illinois, and the Chicago suburbs. She has an undergraduate degree in journalism from Boston University and a master's degree from the University of Illinois-Springfield’s Public Affairs Reporting program. Lisenby was previously the race, identity and culture reporter at St. Louis Public Radio.
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A haze is still lingering over sections of the region as a result of wildfires that continue to burn in parts of Canada, but a sign showing poorer than usual air quality in St. Louis caught our newsroom's attention a bit before we began covering the impact of the fires locally.
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For the past few months, our newsroom has been heavily following developments in the legislature around care for transgender youth and adults and we've heard from many of you. We'll explore that coverage in this month's Editor's Note.
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Members of the Armed Forces serving overseas don’t have far to look to find ways to gamble. There are about 2,000 slot machines on more than 60 overseas bases. The DoD generates $100 million each year from active-duty military personnel playing on those slot machines. Despite this, screening questions to detect problem gambling in the military were discontinued in the early 2000s. -
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The inmate who died at St. Louis' Medium Security Institution (MSI) in August died of an accidental fentanyl overdose, the autopsy report shows.Louis L.… -
Lawyers and people who allege to have been victims of police misconduct during a series of protests in 2017 said they anticipate a federal grand jury… -
Updated at 7:15 p.m. with comments from St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner — Four St. Louis police officers were indicted on federal charges Thursday… -
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Updated Nov. 19 at 4:20 p.m. with response from T.E.H. management. Hundreds of residents in Park Ridge Apartments in Ferguson are concerned about where… -
Immigrants contribute more than a billion dollars to state and federal taxes and account for billions more in spending power, according to Betsy Heller… -
Updated Nov. 13 at 4:15 p.m. with comment from St. Louis Lambert International Airport — St. Louis City NAACP President Adolphus Pruitt said Tuesday the… -
If you were a baroness trapped in the house of a jealous baron and had the opportunity to flee, would you do it if you knew your fate was death should you…
