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Daily newspaper in Missouri, United States

St. Louis Post-Dispatch The November 25, 2014 front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Type Daily newspaper Format Compact (March 23, 2009) Owner Lee Enterprises Founder Joseph Pulitzer Publisher Ian Caso[1] Editor Gilbert Bailon Founded December 12, 1878; 147 years ago (December 12, 1878) Headquarters 901 North 10th Street St. Louis, Missouri 63101 Circulation 31,329 Average print circulation[2] 52,887 Digital Subscribers [3] ISSN 1930-9600 OCLC number 1764810 Website www.stltoday.com

The ***St. Louis Post-Dispatch*** is a regional newspaper serving the [St. Louis metropolitan area](/source/Greater_St._Louis). Based in [St. Louis, Missouri](/source/St._Louis), it is the largest daily newspaper in the metropolitan area by circulation, surpassing the *[Belleville News-Democrat](/source/Belleville_News-Democrat)*, *[Alton Telegraph](/source/The_Telegraph_(Alton%2C_Illinois))*, and *[Edwardsville Intelligencer](/source/Edwardsville_Intelligencer)*. The publication has received 19 [Pulitzer Prizes](/source/Pulitzer_Prize).[4]

The paper is owned by [Lee Enterprises](/source/Lee_Enterprises) of [Davenport, Iowa](/source/Davenport%2C_Iowa), which purchased [Pulitzer, Inc.](/source/Pulitzer%2C_Inc.) in 2005 in a cash deal valued at $1.46 billion.

## Platform

On April 10, 1907, [Joseph Pulitzer](/source/Joseph_Pulitzer) wrote what became known as the paper's [platform](/source/Party_platform):

I know that my retirement will make no difference in its cardinal principles, that it will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.[5]

## History

### Early years

In 1878, Pulitzer purchased the bankrupt *St. Louis Dispatch* at a public auction[6] and merged it with the *St. Louis Evening Post* to create the *St. Louis Post and Dispatch*, whose title was soon shortened to its current form. He appointed John A. Cockerill as the managing editor. Its first edition, 4,020 copies of four pages each, appeared on December 12, 1878.

St. Louis Post- Dispatch ad in 1918

In 1882, [James Overton Broadhead](/source/James_Overton_Broadhead) ran for Congress against John Glover. The *St. Louis Post-Dispatch*, at Cockerill's direction, ran a number of articles questioning Broadhead's role in a lawsuit between a gaslight company and the city; Broadhead never responded to the charges.[7] Broadhead's friend and law partner, [Alonzo W. Slayback](/source/Alonzo_W._Slayback), publicly defended Broadhead, asserting that the *Post-Dispatch* was nothing more than a "blackmailing sheet". The next day, October 13, 1882, Cockerill re-ran an offensive "card" by John Glover that the paper had published the prior year (November 11, 1881). Incensed, Slayback barged into Cockerill's offices at the paper demanding an apology. Cockerill shot and killed Slayback; he claimed self-defense, and a pistol was allegedly found on Slayback's body. A grand jury refused to indict Cockerill for murder, but the economic consequences for the paper were severe. In May 1883, Pulitzer sent Cockerill to New York to manage the *[New York World](/source/New_York_World)* for him.[8]

The *Post-Dispatch* was one of the first daily newspapers to print a [comics](/source/Comics) section in color, on the back page of the features section, styled the "Everyday Magazine."[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

### 20th century

At one time, the *St. Louis Post-Dispatch* had the second-largest [news bureau](/source/News_bureau) in Washington, D.C., of any newspaper in the [Midwestern United States](/source/Midwestern_United_States).[9]

After Joseph Pulitzer's retirement, generations of Pulitzers guided the newspaper, ending when great-grandson Joseph Pulitzer IV left the company in 1995.

The *Post-Dispatch* was characterized by a [liberal](/source/Modern_liberalism_in_the_United_States) [editorial page](/source/Editorial_page) and columnists, including [Marquis Childs](/source/Marquis_Childs). The editorial page was noted also for [political cartoons](/source/Political_cartoon) by [Daniel R. Fitzpatrick](/source/Daniel_R._Fitzpatrick), who won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons,[10] and [Bill Mauldin](/source/Bill_Mauldin), who won the Pulitzer for editorial cartoons in 1959.

On May 22, 1946, the *Post-Dispatch* became the first newspaper in the world to publish the secret protocols for the 1939 [Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact](/source/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact).[11]

During the presidency of [Harry S. Truman](/source/Harry_S._Truman), the paper was one of his most outspoken critics. It associated him with the [Pendergast](/source/Tom_Pendergast) machine in [Kansas City](/source/Kansas_City%2C_Missouri), and constantly attacked his [integrity](/source/Integrity).

In 1950, the *Post-Dispatch* sent a reporter, Dent McSkimming, to [Brazil](/source/Second_Brazilian_Republic) to cover the [1950 FIFA World Cup](/source/1950_FIFA_World_Cup). The reporter paid for his own travelling expenses and was the only U.S. reporter in all of Brazil covering the event.[12]

In 1959 the *[St. Louis Globe-Democrat](/source/St._Louis_Globe-Democrat)* entered into a joint operating agreement with the *Post-Dispatch*. The Post–Globe operation merged advertising, printing functions and shared profits. The *Post-Dispatch*, distributed evenings, had a smaller circulation than the *Globe-Democrat*, a morning daily. The *Globe-Democrat* folded in 1983, leaving the *Post-Dispatch* as the only daily newspaper in the region.[13]

In August 1973 a [Teamsters](/source/Teamsters) union local representing *Globe-Democrat* and *Post-Dispatch* staffers went on strike, halting production for six weeks.[14]

### 21st century

Former *St. Louis Post-Dispatch* headquarters

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In September 2003, the *Post-Dispatch* accepted submissions for a 63rd anniversary special of *[Our Own Oddities](/source/Our_Own_Oddities)*, a lighthearted feature that ran from 1940 to 1991.[15] The best submissions, including a duck-shaped cucumber and a woman born on [December 7, 1941](/source/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor), with the initials W.A.R., were illustrated by *Post-Dispatch* artist Dan Martin and featured in the October 6, 2003, edition.[16]

On January 13, 2004, the *Post-Dispatch* published a 125th-anniversary edition, which included some highlights of the paper's 125 years:

- Coverage of [Charles Lindbergh](/source/Charles_Lindbergh), who flew across the Atlantic despite being denied financial or written support from the *Post-Dispatch.*

- A Pulitzer Prize-winning campaign to clean up [smoke pollution](/source/Air_pollution) in St. Louis. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the city had [the filthiest air in the United States](/source/1939_St._Louis_smog).

- Sports coverage, including nine [St. Louis Cardinals](/source/St._Louis_Cardinals) championships, an NBA title by the [St. Louis Hawks](/source/St._Louis_Hawks) in 1958, and the 2000 Super Bowl victory of the [St. Louis Rams](/source/St._Louis_Rams).

- Coverage of the city's "cultural icons" including [Kate Chopin](/source/Kate_Chopin), [Tennessee Williams](/source/Tennessee_Williams), [Chuck Berry](/source/Chuck_Berry), and [Miles Davis](/source/Miles_Davis).

On January 31, 2005, Michael Pulitzer announced the sale of Pulitzer, Inc. and all its assets, including the *Post-Dispatch* and a small share of the St. Louis Cardinals, to [Lee Enterprises](/source/Lee_Enterprises) of [Davenport, Iowa](/source/Davenport%2C_Iowa), for $1.46 billion. He said no family members would serve on the board of the merged company.

As of 2007,[\[update\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=St._Louis_Post-Dispatch&action=edit) the *Post-Dispatch* was the fifth-largest newspaper in the [midwestern United States](/source/Midwestern_United_States) and the 26th-largest newspaper in the U.S.[17]

On March 12, 2007, the paper eliminated 31 jobs, mostly in its circulation, classified phone rooms, production, purchasing, telephone operations and marketing departments.[18] Several rounds of layoffs have followed.

On March 23, 2009, the paper converted to a [compact](/source/Compact_(newspaper)) style every day from the previous [broadsheet](/source/Broadsheet) Sunday through Friday and [tabloid](/source/Tabloid_(newspaper_format)) on Saturday.

On May 4, 2012, the *Post-Dispatch* named a new editor, Gilbert Bailon.[19]

In 2015, the paper was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for its coverage of the [Ferguson Uprising](/source/Ferguson_Uprising) in [Ferguson, Missouri](/source/Ferguson%2C_Missouri).[20]

In September 2024, six newsroom employees were laid off.[21] The following month the paper announced it will shutter its St. Louis press facility and outsource to a printer in Columbia, Missouri. In total, 72 employees will lose their jobs.[22]

In November 2025, the *Post-Dispatch* moved to a six day printing schedule, eliminating its printed Monday edition.[23] Later in December, billionaire investor [David Hoffmann](/source/Hoffmann_Family_of_Companies) became majority shareholder of Lee Enterprises.[24][25]

In a February 2026 *[St. Louis Business Journal](/source/St._Louis_Business_Journal)* event, majority stockholder [David Hoffmann](/source/Hoffmann_Family_of_Companies) announced intention to move company headquarters to [Davenport, Iowa](/source/Davenport%2C_Iowa), and remarked that the newspaper was "a little too left" in news reporting and editorials.[26] Hoffmann purchased a majority share of Lee Enterprises after reportedly being unhappy with the *Post-Dispatch*'s coverage of how Hoffmann's controversial $100 million investment plan to revitalize [Augusta, Missouri](/source/Augusta%2C_Missouri), which included helicopter tours and a new golf course, collapsed and resulted in numerous lawsuits.[27][28]

In March 2026, the *Post-Dispatch* started publishing AI-generated content under the direction of the new leadership.[29]

### Endorsements for U.S. president

Year endorsement for president (*lost) party 1972 George McGovern* Democratic 1976 Jimmy Carter Democratic 1980 Jimmy Carter* Democratic 1984 Walter Mondale* Democratic 1988 Michael Dukakis* Democratic 1992 Bill Clinton Democratic 1996 Bill Clinton Democratic 2000 Al Gore Democratic 2004 John Kerry* Democratic 2008 Barack Obama Democratic 2012 Barack Obama Democratic 2016 Hillary Clinton* Democratic 2020 Joe Biden Democratic

## Circulation

Circulation dropped for the daily paper from 213,472 to 191,631 and then 178,801 for the two years after 2010, ending on September 30, 2011, and September 30, 2012, respectively. The Sunday paper also decreased from 401,427 to 332,825 and then to 299,227.[30] The circulation as of September 30, 2016, was 98,104 daily and 157,543 on Sunday.[31]

According to a 2017 press release from Lee Enterprises, the paper reaches more than 792,600 readers each week and stltoday.com has roughly 67 million page views a month.[32]

## Weatherbird

First appearance of the Weatherbird, February 11, 1901

Main article: [Weatherbird](/source/Weatherbird)

On February 11, 1901, the paper introduced a front-page feature called the "Weatherbird", a cartoon bird accompanying the daily weather forecast. "Weatherbird" is the oldest continuously published cartoon in the United States. Created by [Harry B. Martin](/source/Harry_B._Martin), who drew it through 1903, it has since been drawn by [Oscar Chopin](/source/Oscar_Chopin) (1903–1910); [S. Carlisle Martin](/source/S._Carlisle_Martin) (1910–1932); [Amadee Wohlschlaeger](/source/Amadee_Wohlschlaeger) (1932–1981); [Albert Schweitzer](/source/Albert_Schweitzer_(artist)), the first one to draw the Weatherbird in color (1981–1986); and [Dan Martin](/source/Dan_Martin_(cartoonist)) (1986–present).[33]

## Notable people

- [Jerry Berger](/source/Jerry_Berger), society columnist, 1980–2004

- [Bob Broeg](/source/Bob_Broeg), Hall of Fame baseball writer, 1946–2004

- [Jacob Burck](/source/Jacob_Burck), political cartoonist, 1937–1938

- Cole Charles Campbell, editor, 1996–2000[34]

- [Oscar Chopin](/source/Oscar_Chopin), cartoonist, 1903–1910

- [Richard Dudman](/source/Richard_Dudman), national affairs correspondent and Washington bureau chief, 1950–1981

- [Daniel R. Fitzpatrick](/source/Daniel_R._Fitzpatrick)

- [Derrick Goold](/source/Derrick_Goold), author and sportswriter

- [Rick Hummel](/source/Rick_Hummel), Hall of Fame baseball writer, 1971–2023

- [Clair Kenamore](/source/Clair_Kenamore), foreign correspondent, telegraph editor, feature writer and Sunday magazine editor, early 20th century

- [Joe Mahr](/source/Joe_Mahr), Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, 2006–2009

- [Rose Marion](/source/Rose_Marion) (c. 1875–1947), feature writer

- [Dan Martin](/source/Dan_Martin_(cartoonist)), [Weatherbird](/source/Weatherbird) cartoonist

- [Harry B. Martin](/source/Harry_B._Martin), cartoonist and golf writer

- [S. Carlisle Martin](/source/S._Carlisle_Martin), cartoonist and illustrator

- [Marguerite Martyn](/source/Marguerite_Martyn), reporter and artist (c. 1880–1948)[35]

- [Bill Mauldin](/source/Bill_Mauldin), cartoonist

- [Bernie Miklasz](/source/Bernie_Miklasz), sports columnist, 1985–2015

- [Robert Minor](/source/Robert_Minor), political cartoonist, 1907–1911

- [Joseph Pulitzer](/source/Joseph_Pulitzer), publisher

- [Charlie Ross](/source/Charlie_Ross_(journalist)), chief Washington correspondent and editor, 1918–1945

- [Neal Russo](/source/Neal_Russo), baseball writer, 1947–1990

- [Albert Schweitzer](/source/Albert_Schweitzer_(artist)), cartoonist

- [Elaine Viets](/source/Elaine_Viets), columnist, 1975–2000

- [Rosa Kershaw Walker](/source/Rosa_Kershaw_Walker) society column, 1870s

- [Joe Williams](/source/Joe_Williams_(film_critic)), film critic, 1996–2015

- [Amadee Wohlschlaeger](/source/Amadee_Wohlschlaeger), sports and Weatherbird cartoonist

- [William Woo](/source/William_Woo), journalist and editor-in-chief, 1962–1996

## See also

- [United States portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:United_States)
- [Journalism portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Journalism)

- *[St. Louis Globe-Democrat](/source/St._Louis_Globe-Democrat)*, a major competing St. Louis daily newspaper, located one block away on the same street, closed in 1986

- *[St. Louis Sun](/source/St._Louis_Sun)*, a short-lived competing daily newspaper started in 1989

- [100 Neediest Cases](/source/100_Neediest_Cases), an annual charitable giving campaign sponsored in part by the *Post-Dispatch*

- *[Riverfront Times](/source/Riverfront_Times)*, a former St. Louis weekly newspaper

- [*The Sporting News*](/source/Sporting_News), a sports magazine that was started in St. Louis

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## Further reading

- [Jim McWilliams](/source/Jim_McWilliams), *Mark Twain in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1874–1891* (Troy, New York: Whitston Publishing Company, 1997).

- Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. *The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers* (1980) pp 286–93

- [Daniel W. Pfaff](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_W._Pfaff&action=edit&redlink=1), *Joseph Pulitzer II and the Post-Dispatch: A Newspaperman's Life* (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991).

- [Julian S. Rammelkamp](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian_S._Rammelkamp&action=edit&redlink=1), *Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, 1878–1883* (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1967).

- [Charles G. Ross](/source/Charlie_Ross_(journalist)) and [Carlos F. Hurd](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carlos_F._Hurd&action=edit&redlink=1), *The Story of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch* (St. Louis: Pulitzer Publishing, 1944).

- *The St. Louis Post-Dispatch as Appraised by Ten Distinguished Americans* (St. Louis, 1926).

- [Orrick Johns](/source/Orrick_Johns), *Time of Our Lives: The Story of My Father and Myself*, (New York, 1937). [George Sibley Johns](/source/George_Sibley_Johns), father of the author, was editor of the *Post-Dispatch* for many years, and was the last of Joseph Pulitzer's "Fighting Editors".

- [Dan Martin](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan_Martin_(journalist)&action=edit&redlink=1), *The story of the First 100 Years of the*St. Louis Post Dispatch *Weatherbird* (St. Louis, 2001).

## External links

- [Official website](https://www.stltoday.com/)

- [*St. Louis Post-Dispatch* Archive (1874–present)](https://stltoday.newspapers.com)

- [*St. Louis Post-Dispatch* photographs](https://archives.lib.umd.edu/repositories/2/resources/505) at the [University of Maryland Libraries](/source/University_of_Maryland_Libraries)

### Finding aids at the St. Louis Public Library

- Absher, Frank. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch](http://rbsc.slpl.org/MA_Post_Dispatch.pdf), Series: 1878-2014. Manuscript stacks, row 12: St. Louis Public Library (SLPL). Retrieved Oct 2021.

- Short, Jim. [Post-Dispatch Notebook](http://rbsc.slpl.org/MA_P_D_Notebook.pdf), Series: 1950-1957. Manuscript stacks, row 13: SLPL. Retrieved Oct 2021.

- Kuchner, Vivian. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch TV Magazine](http://rbsc.slpl.org/MA_P_D_TV_Magazine.pdf), Series: 1956-1981. Manuscript stacks, row 12: SLPL. Retrieved Oct 2021.

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