The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwestern United States, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri as far south as Memphis, Tennessee and as far north as Springfield, Illinois.
The current owner is Lee Enterprises of Davenport, Iowa which purchased Pulitzer, Inc. in 2005 ...
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwestern United States, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri as far south as Memphis, Tennessee and as far north as Springfield, Illinois.
The current owner is Lee Enterprises of Davenport, Iowa which purchased Pulitzer, Inc. in 2005 in a cash deal valued at $1.46 billion.
In 1878, Joseph Pulitzer purchased the St. Louis Post and the St. Louis Dispatch, merged the two papers to be called the St. Louis Post and Dispatch, which was shortened to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
At one time, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch had the second-largest Washington D.C. news bureau of any newspaper in the Midwestern United States.
The newspaper was founded by the 1878 merger of the St. Louis Evening Post and St. Louis Dispatch by owner and editor Joseph Pulitzer. The resulting paper was called...
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