Andre Jackson	Andre Jackson Andre Jackson has been assistant managing editor/business at the *St. Louis Post-Dispatch* since 2001. He is responsible for overseeing business news coverage at the newspaper. Previously, he worked as assistant team leader/business and as an assistant business editor at the newspaper. A Missouri native, Jackson has also worked as an assistant city editor and as weekend editor/local news at the Post-Dispatch. He joined the paper in 1987 as a reporter. During his tenure as a reporter, he worked on special projects, as well as on the general-assignment desk. He also covered the 22nd Circuit Court and Missouri Court of Appeals in St. Louis. Jackson previous work experience included being a reporter and weekend editor at the old Kansas City Times, and as a reporter at the *Wilkes-Barre (Penn.) Times-Leader. He wrote his first newspaper stories as an intern and, later, as a free-lancer at the now-defunct St. Louis Globe-Democrat.* Jackson received a B.S. in mass communications-journalism from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and an MBA with majors in management/competitive strategy and marketing from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Scott Costa	Scott Costa Scott Costa said he does not have a pre-written bio, since he is a "behind the scenes" guy. So this he said this will have to do: Costa is currently the managing editor and executive producer of special projects for KMOV-TV (Channel 4) in St. Louis. He has been at the CBS affiliate since September 2002. Prior to that, he was the executive producer at KTVI-TV (Channel 2) for four years. He was also the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. news producer at KTVI starting in 1992. Costa has also worked in television news in Bakersfield, California, Columbus, Ohio, and Atlanta, Georgia. Born and raised on the north side of Chicago, where he was one of only two White Sox fans (he said) Costa attended Kansas University and Northern Illinois University, where he earned my degree in broadcast journalism. Costa said he has a very understanding wife who knows work can be like a prison where he checks in and someone has to tell him he is free to leave. The father of two boys, ages seven and five, who love all the sports teams he can't stand, including the Missouri Tigers.
Alvin Reid	Alvin A. Reid Alvin Reid is city editor of the St. Louis American, the state’s largest African-American newspaper. The American has been voted the best African American Newspaper in the nation five of the last 10 years, and won the national competition in June 2005. Along with his news responsibilities, Reid writes a weekly Major League Baseball – St. Louis Cardinals column, and was honored by the Missouri Press Association as Best Sports Columnist in 2004 and 1999. He is co-author of the book, “Whitey’s Boys: A Celebration of the 1982 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals.” Reid is former co-host of the interview/discussion show "In The Loop" that won a regional Emmy Award in October 2002. He is also a frequent guest commentator on KETC-PBS’ most-popular local television show, Donnybrook and is a contributor to the show, “Living St. Louis.” He has also appeared on ESPN “Outside the Lines” and on “The Tony Kornheiser Show” on ESPN Radio. Reid began his career at the Danville (Ill.) Commercial News where he planned and wrote a series on Proposition 48 which won several national awards. Reid is a former business editor of the Lansing (Mich.) State Journal, a state editor at the *Arkansas (Little Rock)* Gazette and served as senior editor of Emerge magazine after three years with USA TODAY Baseball Weekly.
Ginger Fletcher	Ginger Fletcher After working for a small newspaper in Illinois, Ginger Fletcher began her school public relations career in the Riverview Gardens School District as the assistant to the superintendent and public information officer. In 2002, Fletcher joined the Ferguson-Florissant School District as the director of public information. She recently accepted a new position as the director of community affairs for the Kirkwood School District. Fletcher is enrolled in the master of arts in mass communication program at Webster University, which she plans to complete in the summer of 2007. She holds a masters of science degree in education and a bachelor of science degree in workforce development from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She Fletcher is a member of the National School Public Relations Association and the Missouri School Public Relations Association. Fletcher also has seven years of experience in community relations in public education and four years in print media.
Dave Drebes	Dave Drebes Dave Drebes is the publisher of Arch City Chronicle, an independent newspaper covering politics in St. Louis. Arch City Chronicle started as a hobby on 2001 and Drebes became its first full-time employee in 2003. Before getting into the media business, he was a stock-broker for eight years and was president of Metropolis St. Louis, a volunteer civic organization in 1998. He and his wife, Mary Lisa, are rehabbing a 100-year-old house and raising a one-year-old girl named Sarah Ann.