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May 2025 Missouri Press News

Missouri Press Association's monthly magazine.

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In this issue

  • May 2025 Notebook

    Tuesday, May 6

    Luis Saldarriaga joined the Tribune and Times as a sports and news reporter in March. This marks a return to Missouri where he recently graduated college.

  • From headlines to crime reports: AI’s growing role in newsrooms

    Tuesday, May 6

    For the past year or so, we’ve been experimenting with more advanced AI and its potential to help manage the flow of news on a consistent basis. We’ve found some things it’s very good at, but it does have some flaws.

  • Missouri Press Insider: Dennis Minich

    Monday, May 5

    We are now the newspaper serving four markets which previously had their own newspapers, so finding a way to make sure everyone feels like we are their local paper and balancing content for various cities/schools as well as a very diverse demographic that ranges from very rural to upper-middle-class suburban.

  • Let’s deliver

    Saturday, May 3

    Hey Post Office, let’s remember our history and agree that delivery is a priority As newspaper publishers and all Americans brace for a proposed postal rate increase in July, I thought …

  • Printed legal notices are effective because of their permanence

    Friday, May 2

    Failure to publish proper notices in our newspapers has real-word consequences. I am sometimes asked what happens when a city fails to run a required notice before making a decision – and the …

  • Jacqueline "Jackie" Marie Miller

    Tuesday, April 29

    Jacqueline "Jackie" Miller (nee' Pfeffer), 93, of Washington, Mo., died Friday, April 25, 2025. Visitation will be held from 4-7 p.m. Friday, May 2, 2025, at Oltmann Funeral Home in Washington, Mo.

  • Fred Lindecke

    Tuesday, April 15

    Fred W. Lindecke, longtime political correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, died March 8, 2025. Lindecke received his journalism degree from Washington University, in the course of which …

  • 2025 MPAME meeting kicks off with Best Idea sharing

    Thursday, April 10

    Missouri Press Advertising and Marketing Executives met Thursday, April 10, in St. Louis for the first half of the group’s 2025 annual meeting. The afternoon kicked-off with a Best Idea …

  • Michael Conger

    Wednesday, April 2

    Michael V. Conger, 76, son of the late Bethany Republican-Clipper publishers Vincent and Bedonna Conger, died on March 27, 2025, at a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona, of a lung disease.

  • Virginia Oehlschlager

    Monday, March 31

    Virginia Anne (Fairchild) Oehlschlager, 42, died March 27, 2025, at her home and surrounded by family.