Congress eliminated $1.1 billion in already-approved funding, jeopardizing access to trusted voices, emergency alerts, and community programming.

The hire marks a restructuring of STLPR's newsroom leadership for stronger public service in a changing media landscape. Interim News Director Brian Heffernan will co-lead in a new managing editor role.

St. Louis Public Radio received six journalism awards from the Public Media Journalists Association (PMJA). The 2025 awards recognize the best work in public media from across the country for the 2024 news year.

St. Louis Public Radio received 9 Awards from the 2025 Missouri Broadcasters Association.

STLPR assumes that efforts to claw back federal funding will be ongoing. Here's what we're doing to protect our local newsroom, and here's how you can continue to help.

St. Louis Public Radio has won a First Place National Headliner Award for Best Radio Series for “Unsolved,” its months-long investigative series in collaboration with APM Reports and the Marshall Project that explored how police in St. Louis have struggled to solve killings, leaving thousands of family members without answers. This is the third national award for the Unsolved series.

St. Louis Public Radio was awarded seven Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA).

Late on Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut funds for the nation’s public media stations. The cuts would impact NPR, PBS and the more than 1,300 local public media stations across the country, including STLPR.

The 2025 St. Louis Public Radio Teen Photojournalist Prize's top honor was given to a Granite City High School junior.

Jess Luther, a 13-year veteran of St. Louis Public Radio and the current chief of staff, will become the station's interim general manager beginning April 26.