Category: Media News

Marshall Project opens local newsroom in St. Louis

The Marshall Project opened a local nonprofit newsroom in St. Louis to support local media with investigative and data journalism about the criminal justice system. St. Louis is the third city in the New York-based Marshall Project’s local network. The other two are Clevaland and Jackson, Mississippi.  “This newsroom is several years in the making.…

Opinion: The month that shook our world

French publication Le Monde headlined this week that it was “The week the US shook Europe’s world.” Americans could justifiably say it’s the month that shook ours. There is no precedent for President Donald Trump’s massive restructuring of the government with a flurry of executive orders, pronouncements, firings and pardons that have overturned norms, violated…

Op-Ed: Super Bowl halftime show a cultural wake-up call

American rapper Kendrick Lamar headlined the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday, delivering a performance that wasn’t just entertainment. It was a statement. A warning. A mirror held up to America.  Every moment—every lyric, visual, and movement—was intentional. And if you were really paying attention, you felt it. More than music, this was a reality…

AP’s last correspondent in St. Louis takes buyout, cutting back on wire service’s continuous presence since before Civil War

 An important cog in the news-making machinery of St. Louis has quietly slipped out of service with the departure of veteran Associated Press Correspondent Jim Salter. For 31 years, Salter supplied the global wire service with a steady diet of hard news, sports and features from eastern Missouri. In 2011 he was part of a…