Mary Beth Tinker, the student suspended for wearing an armband to class to protest the Vietnam War, will speak about student free expression rights at 7:30 p.m. March 11 in a forum at Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium. Tinker’s suspension became the basis for a lawsuit that went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which decided
St. Louis Beacon political reporter Jo Mannies accepted the John Michael McGuire Lifetime Achievement Award from United Media Guild on Jan. 25. Mannies was honored for more than 30 years of covering politics and policy in an intrepid, unbiased way. McGuire, a longtime and beloved feature writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, died in 2009.
The St. Louis Media History Foundation has announced its 2012 inductees to the St. Louis Media Hall of Fame, and all have made their mark on St. Louis journalism, advertising and public relations. The inductees were elected by the St. Louis Media History Foundation board of directors from among dozens of nominees and were announced
A column written by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Bill McClellan touched a nerve in at least one reader, who wrote a letter to the editor that begins: "I was startled to read Bill McClellan’s column, 'Crime Czar,' in which he declared that the solution to a perceived crime epidemic was to 'declare martial law and
