Media

Mandated media literacy education is absent from Missouri schools. Here’s how students think it should be taught.

“Devastating for St. Louis,” says former editor Sarah Fenske. Big Lou Media, which acquired the RFT in 2023, has sold the publication to an undisclosed buyer.

Two Republican-dominated states — Missouri and Louisiana— and five individuals claim the government is violating the First Amendment by systematically pressuring social media companies to take down "false and misleading information."

"It is time for new leadership, leadership that is truly connected to the community, that listens to the community, and that inspires the trust of the community," the musicians wrote in their open letter. "It is time to return the exiled DJs to the air."

The Illinois Local Journalism Task Force, is recommending a mix of strategies intended to increase funding, mitigate high operational costs and keep newsrooms local.

The future of print media, especially for local outlets, is in dire straits as large enterprises buy out community newspapers. The Webster-Kirkwood Times is an anomaly in the St. Louis media landscape — because its journalists got together to purchase the paper themselves.

Shareholders for Lee Enterprises, owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and 23 other papers in the Midwest, re-elected three directors on Thursday. That news could complicate any future takeover bid by Alden Global Capital.

Jacob Chansley received a 41-month prison sentence for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. He’s now appealing the sentence.

On the latest edition of Politically Speaking, St. Louis-based author Sarah Kendzior talks with St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum about her new…

The week of March 16 was a terrible one for alt-weeklies. The free newspapers — which rely entirely on advertising and public events for revenue — were…