Author: Terry Ganey

Missouri capitol reporters still trying to police their own

By TERRY GANEY / The reporters who make up the Missouri Capitol News Association recently came together to consider problems with one of the press corps' members, the Missouri Times, a newly formed organ published by former Poplar Bluff Mayor Scott Faughn. The press group had put the Missouri Times on notice in late January.

Progress of the Beacon/KWMU merger

On one wall of the St. Louis Public Radio newsroom hangs an electronic sign resembling a large flat-screen television with colored graphs, charts and numbers telling the story of the station’s website. One recent summer afternoon, a visitor saw that 89 people were checking out the site to see what the news operation had to

Post-Dispatch wins Scripps Howard award for Ferguson coverage

The Scripps Howard Foundation has awarded its first place national breaking news award for 2014 to the staff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for coverage of the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson and the chaotic events that followed. "A news organization is never tested more thoroughly than when a major story breaks in

Parties and the press

By TERRY GANEY / The Jefferson City press corps has voted to give the Missouri Times until the end of March to clean up the news organization's ethics mess or face the possibility of losing credentials to cover events in Missouri's state capital. Ten representatives of wire service, print and broadcast news organizations met

Ferguson Coverage: News or “The Narrative”

BY TERRY GANEY// In the hours leading up to the announcement of whether or not a Ferguson police officer would face charges for the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, NPR's Cheryl Corley listed all of the possibilities facing officer Darren Wilson. Among them,