Mark Vittert, who may be the richest, most influential journalist in St. Louis, won’t answer journalists’ questions. As a result, he is St. Louis’ mystery media mogul. Vittert, now 64, was part owner of the Riverfront Times. He helped start the buy cialis pill St. Louis Business Journal and similar publications in other cities. Vittert
Who could blame Arnie Robbins for quiting his job as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch? With the resources of the paper, owned by Lee Enterprises, constantly eroding he realized he could never ``do more with less'' as he had once hoped.
So after more than six years as editor (and before that nearly seven as
Joe Pollack, St. Louis' best known and often-feared critic of
theater, movies, restaurants, wine and journalism was still pounding
out columns and reviews up to the age of 81 when his heart couldn't
keep up with his workaholic lifestyle.
He died March 9, 2012 of an apparent heart attack at his home in
Clayton. “My dear Joe has left us,
At the annual dinner of the United Media Guild, in St. Louis on Jan. 27, a special tribute was given to Robert Douglas, a former respected St. Louis Post-Dispatch newsroom aide who died in December.
When Douglas and other clerks were forced to take early retirement in 2008, they had health insurance provided by the Post.
Lee Enterprises, the newspaper chain that owns 28 newspapers in the Gateway Journalism Review’s coverage area, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was in and out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy within two months in a move to restructure its huge debt.
The action was aimed at forcing six percent of Lee's creditors to go along with ``an