We're pleased to be working with the Nine Network of Public Media (KETC public television) and to have our office in the station's building in the Grand Center area.
Joint efforts so far have included an extensive reporting and public awareness project called "Facing the Mortgage Crisis." We also collaborated in November 2008 and again in November 2010 on a four-hour election night special broadcast that featured staff from both organizations and St. Louis experts discussing results, issues and trends.
Together, we're part of the Public Insight Network, a database tool designed to recruit and organize a broad range of people interested in becoming news sources. Using this tool, developed by Minnesota Public Radio, people can share their insights and experiences, helping us reflect a deeper understanding of the community.
Together, the Beacon and the Nine Network are exploring additional ways to generate high quality coverage and serve our community.
We’re pleased to be a partner with St. Louis Public Radio – 90.7 KWMU. Currently, the Beacon and St. Louis Public Radio are working together to provide extensive coverage of Washington D.C. as it relates to Missouri and Illinois. The Beacon’s Washington correspondent Robert Koenig files reports for the Beacon and is featured regularly on St. Louis Public Radio’s St. Louis on the Air. Also, Beacon political reporter Jo Mannies lends her expert understanding of politics as a regular contributor to St. Louis Public Radio’s St. Louis on the Air.
The Beacon joins KTRS host McGraw Milhaven in organizing broadcasts of live discussions of topics of regional interest.
The Beacon and the Missouri History Museum have been partners on two yearlong projects involving major issues that face the St. Louis region. In Race, Frankly, Beacon reporting looked at how race affects many aspects of life in our region, including education, health, jobs and politics. The Museum hosted events and a national exhibition on race that used Beacon reporting for the audio tour. Class: The Great Divide featured Beacon reporting on this sensitive subject, including a look at how the Middle Class fared in the Great Recession. Again, the History Museum hosted events on the topic.
The Beacon carries highlights of international coverage sponsored by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Investigative News NetworkThe Beacon is a member of this consortium of nonprofit news organizations dedicated to watchdog and public interest reporting. INN members pursue some projects through partnerships and together tackle the challenges of creating new media organizations.
The St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, established in 1846, has made St. Louis Globe-Democrat newspaper files available to the St. Louis Beacon. The Globe, well known for its conservative editorial positions and its local reporting, was founded in 1852.
The Globe's morgue, as a news publication's reference department traditionally is called, was acquired by the Mercantile Library after the Globe's demise in 1986. The morgue includes about 10 million items -- photographs, cross-referenced clippings, bound volumes of newspapers and microfilm of back issues.
When the Mercantile Library was established in the mid-19th century, there was no public library, no art museum, no history museum in St. Louis. The Mercantile Library became the preeminent repository for a grand collection of books, works of art and ephemera. After the demise of the Globe, it became also a store house of journalistic and regional history.
FOCUS St. Louis is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a thriving, cooperative region by engaging citizens to participate in active leadership roles and to influence positive community change.
Sensing the need to create a safe space for robust civic dialogue, FOCUS St. Louis and the St. Louis Beacon are excited to introduce Community Conversations, a platform for discussion and debate on a wide variety of issues facing our community. Topics will be presented fairly and impartially, encouraging citizens throughout the region to participate in civil conversations.
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Meeting in St. Louis next week, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious will have its first opportunity as an assembled group to consider what to do after the Vatican issued a mandate for change this spring. It calls on the conference to reorganize and more strictly observe church teachings.
When a family of four goes to the St. Louis Zoo, they can be forgiven for not knowing it will cost them $60, $72 if they park. If they can't pay, the alternative is to tell the kids they can't do what kids do at the zoo.
Missouri House Speaker Steve Tilley gave reporters less than a half-hour’s notice today when he announced that conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh’s sculptured bust will be formally installed in the Capitol at 1 p.m.
Developers on the south side come in all shapes and sizes, with ambitions that vary from single buildings to entire city blocks. In the first of a two-part story, Jason Deem talks about building community.
Author M.M. Costantin, who has lived near the Loop for more than 40 years, compiled a photo book that shows Delmar when it was bustling, when it was dangerous and when it came back to life.
They arrived four years ago as fifth-graders, behind in their work and not used to rigorous classes, but they've advanced rapidly and have a strong academic grounding for high school.
The Beacon's Mary Delach Leonard and Rob Koenig extensively covered flooding in 2011 in Missouri. Now this coverage is compiled in an iBook. Read the stories.
Organizers aren't trying to replace the rib fest, but music lovers will be able to find tangy sustenance as they listen to such greats as Mavis Staples (pictured), Big George Brock, Trombone Shorty, Kim Massie and Marquise Knox take the stage.
Isley, a world-class guitarist as well as a gifted songwriter, communicates and connects swith an audience on an intimate level at "An Evening of Music and Discussion." He is hosting the event on Thursday in O'Fallon, Mo.
Like many artists, dancer Antonio Douthit hears a different drummer. But the drumbeat that changed his life at 16 wasn’t in his head. It wafted from a window on Washington Avenue. Douthit comes home for a May 25 performance in "Spring to Dance."
Donna Korando is the Beacon's arts and features editor. You can contact her at dkorando@stlbeacon.org.
Developers on the south side come in all shapes and sizes, with ambitions that vary from single buildings to entire city blocks. In the first of a two-part story, Jason Deem talks about building community.
Speaking to reporters at Monsanto, Howard Buffett warned that future generations would foot the bill for irresponsible soil use. He urged leaders to address thorny issues such as malnutrition and environmental destruction.
Twenty winners will split a million dollars and a wide array of professional services after this year's Arch Grants competition. Victors will also see one-on-one business mentoring in their prize package. The diverse group includes everything from biotech concerns to fashion enterprises.
Innovation and entrepreneurial activity are on the rise in St. Louis, especially in bioscience, technology and alternative energy. The Beacon's InnovationSTL section focuses on the people who are part of this wave, what they're doing and how this is shaping our future. To many St. Louisans, this wave is not yet visible. InnovationSTL aims to change that. We welcome you to share your knowledge, learn more about this vibrant trend and discuss its impact.
The Academy of Science-St. Louis hosts tours of EarthDance, an organic farm, and the Monsanto Agronomics and Breeding Facility May 21-22. The workshop is meant to prompt discussion and answer questions about these two competing philosophies of food production.
Speaking to reporters at Monsanto, Howard Buffett warned that future generations would foot the bill for irresponsible soil use. He urged leaders to address thorny issues such as malnutrition and environmental destruction.
Vernon Bowman's challenge to Monsanto Co.'s patent on its Roundup Ready soybean seeds was billed as a David vs. Goliath contest. Goliath won and won big. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that an Indiana soybean farmer had violated Monsanto's patent on its genetically engineered soybean seeds.
Sally Altman is the Beacon's Health and Science editor. You can contact her at saltman@stlbeacon.org.
You have to know your audience: McDonald's regulars don't need free-range chicken or a certain breed of beef; a second-chance high school needs personally motivated students as opposed to people ordered to attend and low-income Democrats by and large don't want a cigarette tax.
Last week, Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura sacrificed his crown as the King of America. He faced an individual decision to play against the best in the nation or the best on the planet. Find out what happened at that world-level tournament.
Our world sees rapid change in many ways -- how we view women, races, sexual minorities and other populations, for instance. While a daily delivery of new and different can be exhausting, it can force us to reflect and consider how to move forward, often incrementally, toward what is good and what bring value to our lives.
Donna Korando is the Beacon's Voices editor. You can contact her and submit opinion pieces for possible publication at dkorando@stlbeacon.org.