by William H. Freivogel Opinion No, Mr. President, it isn’t true that journalists “don’t like our country.” Our job is to hold our country and our president to the values of freedom, equality and diversity that make America special. No, it isn’t true journalists are “liars” and “sick people” who write “fake news” and stir
Opinion by William H. Freivogel The bloody weekend in Charlottesville, Va. has put enormous strain on President Donald Trump, the First Amendment and constitutional checks on the president. Trump flunked the stress test spectacularly in his unhinged, red-faced rant of a press conference by failing to speak to the nation with the voice of moral
Publisher’s note: Richard Dudman wrote this third-person autobiography about his career in 2004 by Richard Dudman When Richard Dudman was captured in Cambodia in 1970 by Viet Cong guerrillas when covering the Vietnam war for the St. Louis
Publisher’s note: Margaret W. Freivogel wrote this appreciation of Dudman on his retirement from the Bangor Daily News in 2012. The piece appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, which merged later with St. Louis Public Radio where Freivogel was editor. (She is the wife of GJR publisher William H. Freivogel.) by Margaret Wolf Freivogel It’s
by William H. Freivogel St. Louisans learned about the great events of the second half of the 20th century through the eyes, ears and forceful dispatches of Richard B. Dudman, a great American reporter who led the Washington Bureau of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1969 to 1981. Dudman died last week at 99. The