Sarah Fenske
“St. Louis On The Air” Host/ProducerSarah Fenske served as host of St. Louis on the Air from July 2019 until June 2022. Before that, she spent twenty years in newspapers, working as a reporter, columnist and editor in Cleveland, Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles and St. Louis.
She won the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for her work in Phoenix exposing corruption at the local housing authority. She also won numerous awards for column writing, including multiple first place wins from the Arizona Press Club, the Association of Women in Journalism (the Clarion Awards) and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
From 2015 to July 2019, Sarah was editor in chief of St. Louis' alt-weekly, the Riverfront Times. She and her husband, John, are raising their two young daughters and ill-behaved border terrier in Lafayette Square.
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All-white juries continue to sentence Black defendants to death — because the legal system allows it. -
St. Louis Public Radio is publishing a series of stories, in collaboration the River City Journalism Fund, that analyzes the use of the death penalty in St. Louis County, which has sentenced more people to death than any other Missouri county since 1976. -
Mayor Tishaura Jones discusses the results of the city’s ARPA survey — and her plans for true reform at City Hall — on "St. Louis on the Air." -
The Legal Roundtable analyzes the big award given to a woman who says she contracted HPV after having sex in a car insured by Geico. -
Scam artists stole more than $1,000 from Clementine’s last week, using an elaborate scam that began with allegations of counterfeit bill passing. -
"The Memory Keeper of Kyiv" is set in both modern-day Illinois and 1930s Ukraine, when 3.9 million people died due to Stalin's efforts at forced collectivization. -
Tonia Haddix had previously claimed Tonka the chimp died of natural causes. His discovery in a Missouri basement gives lie to that claim. -
Cousins Jodie Finney and Alicia Christopher each have a parent dealing with dementia. They want to equip caregivers for their work. -
Michael Loynd’s “The Watermen” digs into the early days of Olympic swimming. -
Webster Groves got a black eye from "16 in Webster Groves" — but author Don Corrigan says the municipality learned from its moment in the national spotlight. -
The annual antique fair returns to Lafayette Park for the first time in three years this Saturday, along with the Lafayette Square garden tour. -
Attorneys Eric Banks, Nicole Gorovsky and Dave Roland analyze high-profile litigation in Missouri and Illinois.
