Brian Heffernan
Managing Editor of Audience & ProductBrian Heffernan is the managing editor of audience and product at St. Louis Public Radio. He joined STLPR in 2018 as digital and special projects editor and later served as the newsroom’s interim leader for nearly three years. During that time, the station earned record numbers of awards for its journalism — including back-to-back regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Overall Excellence and national recognition for a collaborative investigation into homicide clearance rates in St. Louis. He also oversaw the launches of the award-winning projects STL Welcome Kit and We Live Here: 10 Years After the Ferguson Uprising.
Before joining STLPR, Heffernan reported for outlets including Al Jazeera America, St. Louis Magazine, the Riverfront Times, San Francisco magazine, and the Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette newspapers in South Carolina. A St. Louis native, he earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
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The jail director, who reports to St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones, was known to be at odds with the city's Detention Facility Oversight Board over the lack of transparency and conditions at the City Justice Center. -
St. Louis Public Radio and NPR rely on the Associated Press to declare winners in elections. Here’s how the news agency makes those calls and what to expect on election night. -
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St. Louis officials early Tuesday morning called off an attempt to disband an encampment of people who have been sleeping in tents outside Mayor Tishaura Jones’ office window at City Hall for months. -
Carl Phillips read the title poem of his award-winning collection, “Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020,” during a March 2022 appearance on St. Louis on the Air. -
Illinois' top contests include a gubernatorial race between Democrat JB Pritzker and Republican Darren Bailey, races for U.S. Senate and Congress, and Amendment 1: The right to collective bargaining. -
Missouri's top contests include a Senate race between Republican Eric Schmitt and Democrat Trudy Busch Valentine, a recreational marijuana measure and other ballot initiatives. -
We assembled a guide to help voters navigate the Missouri and Illinois 2022 general elections on Nov. 8. Here is information on how to vote and what to expect on your ballot. -
Missouri's highest-profile contests in the 2022 primary elections are for winning party nominations for Senate and the newly drawn congressional districts. -
Inform your vote with this Missouri 2022 midterm primary election guide. Contests include U.S. Senate primaries, Bush vs. Roberts in Missouri's 1st Congressional District, Page vs. Dueker for St. Louis County executive and other state and local contests.
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STLPR is building a welcome kit for people new to St. Louis and we need your help. -
St. Louis and St. Louis County officials announced that masks would no longer be required in most places and lifted restrictions on crowd sizes for public accommodations, large venues and most other spaces where people gather.
