Summary
She and several colleagues decided they were in a position to do something about it. In April, they launched an online news site, now called the St. Louis Beacon (stlbeacon.org) to cover the Gateway region. "We saw this as a service to the community, to provide the kinds of in-depth reporting and context... that is being cut back all over the country," Freivogel says.
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A Beacon for St. Louis
When her 34 years with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ended in a buyout in 2005, then-Sunday Editor Margaret Freivogel looked at the state of America's shrinking newsrooms and decided something important was being lost.
"There were about 40 people who left the Post-Dispatch newsroom at the time I did, and we looked around and tried to put what had h...See the full content of this document
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