KTVI, the local Fox station, and KPLR, the local CW affiliate, will move to KPLR’s Maryland Heights offices and share a newsroom in an attempt to cut costs. Newscasts will not overlap. (We thought it strange when KPLR started an hour-long newscast at 7 p.m.) The new agreement goes into effect on Oct. 1. A [...]

In July, Metromix officially launched in St. Louis. After some e-mail shenanigans, I had a chance to ask Metromix St. Louis managing producer Adam Claypool a few questions: The Chicago Tribune started Metromix about 10 years ago. Last year Tribune Co. and Gannett Co. Inc. started working together to add Metromix sites. How long has [...]

The Metromix St. Louis launch party is July 25 at the Schlafly Tap Room. St. Louis’s Gannett-owned KSDK (Channel 5) is behind the new addition to the Metromix family. In October, Gannett and Tribune Co. teamed up to expand Metromix. The Chicago Tribune started Metromix more than 10 years ago. Metromix offers a searchable guide [...]

St. Louis has finally been added to the cities you can see via Google’s Street View. Co-worker Kurt Greenbaum says the most detailed areas are in downtown St. Louis and along Highway 40. Google added 36 other cities too: • Huntsville, Ala. • Bakersfield, Fresno, Sacramento and Stockton, Calif. • Boca Raton, Cape Coral, Fort [...]

Help wanted: “We seek a newspaper journalist based in India to report on the city government and political scene of Pasadena, California, USA.” (Who knew. There’s an Indian version of Craigslist.) I got an e-mail from a Times editor asking for help tracking down information that’s at The Times. Sadly, I knew the answer. Sadly, [...]