About Margie Freivogel

FREIVOGEL, MARGARET WOLF is the founding editor of the St. Louis Beacon, an online-only, non-profit news site that launched in the spring of 2008. The Beacon focuses on news that matters to the St. Louis region, especially the economy, politics, education, health and the arts. Previously, she worked for 34 years at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as a reporter, Washington correspondent and assistant managing editor. She led creation of the paper's NewsWatch news analysis section and of its ethics and sourcing policies. Her Washington reporting won several awards, including the National Press Club Washington Correspondent's Award and the American Bar Association Gavel Award. She was president of Journalism and Women Symposium, a national organization. She's married to William Freivogel, director of the journalism school at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and they have four children, none of them journalists.

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