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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Attorneys Booker T. Shaw, Mary Anne Sedey and Bill Freivogel share insights on St. Louis on the Air’s Legal Roundtable. -
Katherine Alexander learned the art of pysanky from her Polish mother. -
Dana Levin’s new book, “Now Do You Know Where You Are,” contains poems set in and around St. Louis, where she now lives. -
Teachers PJ and Jamie Creek put their classroom knowledge to work creating posters, and now authoring a book, about American history. -
Writer Colin Healy’s “Big Machine” was inspired by the deadly events at a Standard Oil factory in Baywater, New Jersey, in 1924. -
In its 25 years, St. Louis drug treatment court has gone from being perceived as a way to keep drug convictions from marring otherwise clean records to helping the city’s most vulnerable. -
St. Louis’ accidental music festival celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. -
At least 27 staffers for then-Gov. Eric Greitens used the app Confide, which shielded their communications from public view. -
Attorneys Bevis Schock, Connie McFarland-Butler and Nicole Gorovsky join the Legal Roundtable on "St. Louis on the Air." -
St. Louis journalist Kathy Gilsinan wrote her book about the COVID-19 pandemic while in its midst. -
“Kindie rock” musician Marko Polo’s debut album, “Mammal Music,” builds on Mark Pagano’s time as frontman of the kid-friendly FIRE DOG. -
Buildings across St. Louis of 50,000 square feet or more must comply with new energy guidelines — or face fines of up to $500 a day beginning in 2025.
