Tag: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Scandals will fade but lobbying still drives the Missouri legislature

By ROY MALONE / A series of sex scandals that revealed tawdry affairs among top officials in Missouri's state capital made for titillating reading this summer and stirred up a controversy about journalistic ethics. Sex scandals in Jefferson City are nothing new, say veteran statehouse reporters. Bad behavior by lawmakers and lobbyists has plagued the

Dudman looks back at Pol Pot

WILLIAM H. FREIVOGEL / Richard Dudman, the chief Washington Correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in the 1970s, almost died in Cambodia - twice. Now, at age 97, he looks back at his reporting and says he may have been too easy on Pol Pot - the murderous dictator of Cambodia.

The Pulitzer for Breaking News Photos: Breakthrough for the Post?

By ROY J. HARRIS, JR. / There’s a line in the “first rough draft” of recent Post-Dispatch history - the paper’s own account of winning its first Pulitzer Prize in 26 years on Monday - that sounds a bittersweet note, at least to me. “The mood in the newsroom became tense as [Pulitzer administrator Mike]