St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 23, 2009 front page of the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Compact (March 23, 2009) |
| Owner(s) | Lee Enterprises |
| Publisher | Ray Farris |
| Editor | Gilbert Bailon |
| Founded | December 12, 1878 by Joseph Pulitzer |
| Headquarters | 900 North Tucker Boulevard St. Louis, Missouri 63101 United States |
| Circulation | 137,380 Daily 223,826 Sunday (March 2014) |
| ISSN | 1930-9600 |
| OCLC number | 1764810 |
| Website | www |
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major regional newspaper in St. Louis, in the U.S. state of Missouri, serving Greater St. Louis. It is the only remaining printed daily newspaper in the city. It is the fifth-largest newspaper in the midwestern United States, and is the 26th-largest newspaper in the U.S. According to its masthead, the publication has received eighteen Pulitzer Prizes.
The paper is owned by Lee Enterprises of Davenport, Iowa, which purchased Pulitzer, Inc. in 2005 in a cash deal valued at $1.46 billion.
Circulation dropped for the daily paper from 213,472 to 191,631 to 178,801 for the two years after 2010, ending on September 30, 2011, and September 30, 2012. The Sunday paper also decreased from 401,427 to 332,825 to 299,227. According to Echomedia.com, the paper's paid print circulation figures (updated on June 5, 2014) were 225,889 daily and 252,000 Sunday, while St. Louis Magazine mentioned the corresponding figures from the Alliance for Audited Media in March 2014 for the previous six-month average were 137,380 daily and 223,826 Sunday.
On April 10, 1907, Pulitzer wrote what became known as the paper's 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 or predatory poverty.
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