Louis Cardinals, to Lee Enterprises of Davenport, Iowa, for $1.46В billion. and all its assets, including the Post-Dispatch and a small share of the St. On January 31, 2005, Michael Pulitzer announced the sale of Pulitzer, Inc.

Coverage of the city's 'cultural icons' including Kate Chopin, Tennessee Williams, Chuck Berry, and Miles Davis.

Louis Hawks in 1958, and the 2000 Super Bowl victory of the St. Louis Cardinals championships, an NBA title by the St. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the city had the filthiest air in the United States.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning campaign to clean up smoke pollution in St.

Coverage of Charles Lindbergh, who flew across the Atlantic despite being denied financial or written support from the Post-Dispatch.

On January 13, 2004, the Post-Dispatch published a 125th-anniversary edition, which included some highlights of the paper's 125В years: In August 1973 a Teamsters union representing Globe and Post-Dispatch staffers went on strike, halting production for six weeks. The Globe-Democrat folded in 1983, leaving the Post-Dispatch as the only daily newspaper in the region. The Post-Dispatch, distributed evenings, had a smaller circulation than the Globe-Democrat, a morning daily. The PostвЂ“Globe operation merged advertising, printing functions and shared profits. Louis Globe-Democrat entered into a joint operating agreement with the Post-Dispatch. reporter in all of Brazil covering the event. The reporter paid for his own travelling expenses and was the only U.S. Louis Post-Dispatch sent a reporter, Dent McSkimming, to Brazil to cover the 1950 FIFA World Cup. It associated him with the Pendergast machine in Kansas City, and constantly attacked his integrity. Truman, the paper was one of his most outspoken critics. In 1946 the newspaper was the first edition in the world to publish the secret protocols for MolotovвЂ“Ribbentrop Pact.

Several months prior to the anniversary edition, the newspaper published a 63rd-anniversary tribute to 'Our Own Oddities', a lighthearted feature that ran from 1940 to 1990. Fitzpatrick, who won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons, and Bill Mauldin, who won the Pulitzer for editorial cartoons in 1959. The editorial page was noted also for political cartoons by Daniel R. The Post-Dispatch was characterized by a liberal editorial page and columnists, including Marquis Childs. ДЄfter Joseph Pulitzer's retirement, generations of Pulitzers guided the newspaper, ending when great-grandson Joseph Pulitzer IV left the company in 1995. Louis Post-Dispatch had the second-largest news bureau in Washington, D.C., of any newspaper in the Midwestern United States. The Post-Dispatch was one of the first daily newspapers to print a comics section in color, on the back page of the features section, styled the 'Everyday Magazine.' 20th century ДЄt one time, the St. Therefore, in May 1883, Pulitzer sent Cockerill to New York to manage the New York World for him. A grand jury refused to indict Cockerill for murder, but the economic consequences for the paper were severe. Cockerill shot and killed Slayback he claimed self-defense, and a pistol was allegedly found on Slayback's body. Incensed, Slayback barged into Cockerill's offices at the paper demanding an apology. Louis Post-Dispatch was nothing more than a 'blackmailing sheet.' The next day, October 13, 1882, Cockerill re-ran an offensive 'card' by John Glover that the paper had published the prior November (November 11, 1881). Slayback, publicly defended Broadhead, asserting that the St. Broadhead's friend and law partner, Alonzo W. Louis Post-Dispatch, at Cockerill's direction, ran a number of articles questioning Broadhead's role in a lawsuit between a gaslight company and the city Broadhead never responded to the charges. In 1882, James Overton Broadhead ran for Congress against John Glover.

Its first edition, 4,020 copies of four pages each, appeared on December 12, 1878. Louis Post and Dispatch, whose title was soon shortened to its current form. Louis Dispatch at a public auction and merged it with the St.

In 1878, Pulitzer purchased the bankrupt St. 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 plutocracy or predatory poverty. On April 10, 1907, Joseph Pulitzer wrote what became known as the paper's platform:

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