Journalism

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 28, 2012 - Mine public information from data bases; present it in an interactive map and provide…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 7, 2012 - Dear Beaconites,I was tickled that Margie Freivogel passed the Editor’s Weekly baton…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 30, 2012 - Dear Beaconites -If you were a Beacon editor, perhaps you would have chosen to focus…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 29, 2012 - When Earl Swift was a kid, building a raft to venture along a big river was just the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 21, 2012 - Dear Beaconites -"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 13, 2012 - Dear Beaconites -Among news organizations, competition has always been king. But in…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 8, 2012 (Updated in August) - Every summer the Beacon is lucky to have a class of interns who…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, April 6, 2012 - British journalists seem to have been reading too many Stieg Larsson's books about…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 8, 2011 - The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is more than an effort to reinvigorate foreign…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 22, 2011 - The e-mail arrived the way these things typically do -- unsolicited and without…