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The article presents an interview with news anchor Dick Ford in Saint Louis, Missouri regarding his service in news broadcasting. Ford's career revolves around the television industry serving almost forty years in service with three television stations namely KMOX-TV (Channel 4), KSD-TV (Channel 5) and KTVI (Channel 2). When asks about the key differences of media coverage of politicians between the past and at presents, he cites that when city mayor in Saint Louis calls for a news conference, every station attend while in the present, news conference of city mayors is not a big deal and only few stations would cover the event. He comments that the quality of the television news at present are more production oriented and producers and writers lacks training.

The article focuses on television journalist Vickie Newton. Newton is a co-anchor of the 5 and 10 p.m. local news programs broadcast by television station KMOV-TV in Saint Louis, Missouri. Newton describes how news and public events were important topics for her family as a child in Bearden, Arkansas. This led to a lifelong ambition to become a television journalist.

The article examines a trend in television news broadcasting termed "backpack" journalism. This describes television journalists carrying their own video cameras and operating without either a photographer or editor. The cost cutting practice has been instituted at two Saint Louis, Missouri television stations. Union officials representing television journalists and cameramen express concern that the so-called "one-man bands" could result in a loss of journalism quality as well as costing members' jobs. INSET: The Backpack Story.

The article focuses on television journalists Art Holliday and Jennifer Blome, co-anchors of the morning news program on television station KSDK in Saint Louis, Missouri. The two anchors have broadcast that program since 1988, an almost unheard of tenure in television news broadcasting. both Holliday and Blome credit a personal friendship as the main factor in their success.

The article focuses on network television journalists who spent an early part of their careers on local stations in St. Louis, Missouri. Russ Mitchell, news anchor of the "CBS Early Show", was a news reporter on station KMOV from 1987-1992. NBC News reporter Anne Thompson worked at station KSDK from 1985-1990. ESPN studio host Trey Wingo worked at KSDK from 1991-1997.

The article focuses on television anchors and reporters in the Saint Louis, Missouri area who have left journalism for corporate and non-profit employment. Karen Foss, retired from KSDK-TV Channel 5, was appointed communications director for AmerenUE. Jamie Allman, former KMOV-TV Channel 4 investigative reporter, left television to become the spokesperson for St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke. He left that job to work in radio, where he hosts "Allman in the Morning," a talk show on KFTK. His former job with the Archbishop was taken by Anne Steffens, a former education reporter and weekend anchor on Channel 4.

The article focuses on the television news broadcasting practice known as "backpacking," in which a reporter covers a story carrying and operating their own video camera without a camera man or producer also on the assignment. Almost all Saint Louis, Missouri television stations now mandate backpacking for their reporters in order to cut costs. The practice is also common on foreign news broadcasts by television networks.

This article reports from the 2007 St. Louis Media Halls of Fame awards and induction ceremony. Print, radio and television were all celebrated and rewarded. Some of the inductees include Mary Kimbrough, David Lipman and Mike Peters. Keith Gunther was rewarded for his 30 years at Channel 5 in Missouri.

The article focuses on the 2005 Regional Emmy Wards sponsored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Saint Louis, Missouri. The best anchor slot was appropriately filled by Mandy Murphey of Channel 2. The top television sports reporter went to the deserving Frank Cusumano of Channel 5. Inducted into the Silver Circle, an honor given to outstanding industry types with at least quarter century of experience, were Karen Foss, an anchor on Channel 5; Cheryl McDonald, the general manager and vice president of WDAF-TV in Kansas City; Bill Reed, who served as president of Kansas City Public Television from 1992-2005; Dennis Riggs, former anchor and reporter and now manager of the Higher Education Channel; and retired Tom Martin, a Channel 4 videographer.

This article reports that Herb Humphries, known in Saint Louis, Missouri for his dryly humorous reporting on the television station KMOV over two decades, is being inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in late October 2004. The posthumous induction will focus on his work early in his career at two Texas radio stations.

Focuses on the difficulties that television reporters have to go through during snow and ice storms to report live where the news is happening in Saint Louis, Missouri.