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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has received 19 Pulitzer Prizes. Notable awards include the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons won by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, the 1959 editorial cartoons prize won by Bill Mauldin, and the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of the Ferguson Uprising.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is owned by Lee Enterprises of Davenport, Iowa. Lee Enterprises purchased Pulitzer, Inc. in 2005 for $1.46 billion. In December 2025, billionaire investor David Hoffmann became majority shareholder of Lee Enterprises.
Joseph Pulitzer created the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1878. He purchased the bankrupt St. Louis Dispatch at a public auction and merged it with the St. Louis Evening Post. The first edition of 4,020 copies appeared on the 12th of December 1878.
The Weatherbird is a front-page cartoon bird that has accompanied the daily weather forecast in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch since the 11th of February 1901. It is considered the oldest continuously published cartoon in the United States. Harry B. Martin created it, and Dan Martin has drawn it since 1986.
On the 22nd of May 1946, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch became the first newspaper in the world to publish the secret protocols of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The secret protocols revealed the prewar arrangement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
Daily circulation fell from 213,472 in the period ending the 30th of September 2010, to 98,104 by the 30th of September 2016. Sunday circulation dropped from 401,427 to 157,543 over the same period. By 2024 and 2025, the paper underwent multiple rounds of layoffs and closed its St. Louis printing facility.