St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the only major city-wide newspaper in Saint Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve the Saint Louis metropolitan area, the Post-Dispatch is available and read as far west as Springfield, Missouri.
History
It was founded by Joseph Pulitzer in 1878. Upon his retirement in 1907. Mr. Pulitzer wrote what's now referred to 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 plutocracy or predatory poverty."
Its major competitor until the 1980s was the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
