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The St. Louis Beacon is a nonprofit online news organization that covers public affairs, health issues and the arts.
The Beacon was launched in 2008 by a group of former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporters and editors. Its initial funding was provided through grants, including a $500,000 challenge grant from philanthropist, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, the wife of the late former Post-Dispatch publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr.
The Beacon has a full-time staff of about 17 and shares an office with the public television station KETC. It also partners with St. Louis Public Radio on both local and Washington coverage. In 2012, it launched the Beyond November project with St. Louis Public Radio and the Nine Network of Public Media, funded by a $200,000 grant from the Deer Creek Foundation, focusing on public accountability reporting.
It received a $90,000 grant from the Knight Foundation in 2008 and a $100,000 health reporting grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health in 2009. The Beacon also gets revenue from advertising-like sponsorships from local businesses.
NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is an American radio producer and distributor that specializes in news, public affairs, and cultural programming. NPR was launched in 1970 as a collaboration among the nation’s public-broadcasting stations. It is not a radio station itself, but instead a central news organization that produces, licenses, and distributes a variety of…
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