Cinema St. Louis

The Beacon is working jointly with Cinema St. Louis to bring you the Lens blog.

nine network of public media

We're pleased to be working with the Nine Network of Public Media 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.

St. Louis Mercantile Library Association

The St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, established in 1846, has made St. Louis Globe-Democrat newspaper files available to the St. Louis Beacon, soon to celebrate its first birthday. 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.

St. Louis Public Radio – 90.7 KWMU

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.

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

The Beacon carries daily highlights in our World section of international coverage sponsored by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Investigative News Network

The 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.