Ethics and Journalism; Tony Messenger, Post-Dispatch Metro Columnist; 18-Sep-2022

Published: Sept. 18, 2022, 7 p.m.

Post-Dispatch Metro Columnist Tony Messenger will share some of the daily ethical challenges he faces as a journalist, and will explore how the profession might change in the future.

Tony Messenger is the Pulitzer Prize-winning metro columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2019 he won the Pulitzer in commentary for his series of columns on debtors\u2019 prisons in Missouri. His first book: Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice, was published by St. Martin\u2019s Press in December. Tony lives with his wife and two teenagers in Wildwood. He has four grown children and 9 grandchildren.