New look for STLtoday.com

The Post-Dispatch overhauls its website. Our verdict: it’s better. More to be done, yes, but better.

What’s in a name?

Local journalism gets feisty with a tug-of-war over a “Platform.”

The more things change

The law and order beat goes on, stylistically speaking, at the P-D.

Dana Loesch leaves Post-Dispatch

If any paper could alienate the most interesting columnist/blogger it has, it would be the P-D.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch noted for front page design

This blog has cuffed the Post-Dispatch around a time or two for the unfortunate design of its online edition, but it should be noted that the print version of the paper has come in for praise. In a roundup of award-winning newspaper designs, Smashing Magazine spotlights the kudos given the P-D by Best Front Design [...]

PubDef.net

The St. Louis-based political media site is totally overhauled, powered by WordPress (the stylish Premium News theme), and looks awesomely professional (compare to old version). Would like to see a masthead, or a statement of purpose, or whatever, but it’s a minor point. Great job.

More ad subtlety at STLtoday

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch either hates its own website or its own readers. Or maybe the paper is just really hard up for cash. Or perhaps all three. Oh, well. Anyone wanna go see Jersey Boys?

Is our Forbes reporters learning?

Forbes.com may be the “home page for the world’s business leaders,” but let’s hope those leaders don’t take the magazine’s advice on raising children. A slideshow accompanying the commentary “Where to Educate Your Children” lists St. Louis as the 9th best place in the country - out of 20 - to have your kids schooled:
No. [...]

The Lumiere Place-Dispatch

Visitors to the web analogue of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch had best put their Ray-Bans on first, lest their retinas be scorched by the garish Lumiere Place advertising that serves as wallpaper today:

Subtle!
The P-D must have decided it could make additional cash by renting out the space formerly occupied by its non-revenue-producing (and fairly unattractive) [...]

Roid rage

For me, the most interesting aspect of Mitchell Day was the overblown “team coverage” given the story by local NBC affiliate KSDK. This is what happens when a station tries to take ownership of a story. Similarly hysterical is the war font treatment employed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Why, it’s the biggest story since the [...]