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Linda Lockhart

Analyst, Public Insight Network


	3655 Olive
	St. Louis
	MO
	63108
	USA

314-535-NEWS (6397)

Linda is the Beacon's analyst for the Public Insight Network. The network, a product of Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media, is a new journalism tool used to find out what people know and what they want to know. Using e-mail and the Internet, it helps Beacon editors and reporters quickly find and learn from people who have experience or knowledge on stories being covered. The Beacon also looks to participants for suggestions about what stories should be covered.

Linda has worked as a journalist for more than 30 years, as reporter, copy editor, make-up editor, night city editor, wire editor, Metro Section and editorial writer. She began and ended her work for daily newspapers at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In between, she worked at the Milwaukee Journal, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the Wisconsin State Journal and The Capital Times. Linda has served on the Editorial Advisory Committee of The Lutheran, the magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Linda is graduate of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and of the Editing Program for Minority Journalists. She has been a member and national secretary of the National Association of Black Journalists, and is a founding member and former president of the Greater St. Louis Association of Black Journalists. Linda is a native of St. Louis, and lives with her reporter husband in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood. They have two children, a dog and a cat.

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Voices

The rich aren't like Charlie Brown

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Quitting cold Turkey has a new meaning

Posted 9:16 a.m. Mon., 02.08.10 - With a smoking rate of 40 percent, Turkey has created a political and social firestorm is its seven-month old ban on public indoor smoking. Ekrem Mehmet Morali says that the country should have done more to mitigate how the ban affects coffeeshops and to help smokers quit.
City crime rates: comparing apples to apples

Posted 6 a.m. Sun., 02.07.10 - How do you compare crime rates in cities that have different socio-economic conditions? Richard Rosenfeld joined in ranking of cities according to their homicide rates, after adjusting for poverty and other conditions strongly associated with city homicide rates but over which the police exert little control. The news for St. Louis isn't good.

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Barroom Conversations

The Beacon's nationally recognized Barroom Conversations program on race, class and other issues that divide will be held on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, at 7:30 PM discussing Education and Class. RSVP on Facebook and invite your friends! We'll pick up where we left off at Six Row Brewing Co., 3690 Forest Park Avenue at Spring. We look forward to seeing you again!

The MIKADO has a little list … were you on it?

The St. Louis Beacon rang in 2012 with a concert performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's beloved operetta, "The Mikado," at the Sheldon Concert Hall, and the Higher Education Channel was on hand to record it. Here is a link to the complete perfomance, which we hope you'll enjoy.

The musical direction of "The Mikado" was by Amy Kaiser; Craig Terry was conductor-accompanist. All proceeds from ticket sales benefitted the Beacon.

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