Sarah Fenske
“St. Louis On The Air” Host/ProducerSarah Fenske joined St. Louis Public Radio as host of St. Louis on the Air in July 2019. Before that, she spent twenty years in newspapers, working as a reporter, columnist and editor in Cleveland, Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles and St. Louis.
She won the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for her work in Phoenix exposing corruption at the local housing authority. She also won numerous awards for column writing, including multiple first place wins from the Arizona Press Club, the Association of Women in Journalism (the Clarion Awards) and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
From 2015 to July 2019, Sarah was editor in chief of St. Louis' alt-weekly, the Riverfront Times. She and her husband, John, are raising their two young daughters and ill-behaved border terrier in Lafayette Square.
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Clayton attorney Bevis Schock won a victory in federal court this week on behalf of Robert Fernandez, a homeless man repeatedly cited for violating St. Louis County ordinances against panhandling.
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St. Louis native G'Ra Asim discussed his new book on being Black and punk on St. Louis on the Air. -
"Hidden Brain" host Shankar Vedantam discusses his new book on "St. Louis on the Air."
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Marketing director Anh Le, composer Laura Karpman and librettist Taura Stinson discuss highlights from Opera Theatre of St. Louis' upcoming 2021 Festival Season, which sold out just one week after opening ticket sales to the public.
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In the past five years, St. Louis has gone from few dedicated public pickleball courts to more than a dozen. Mike Chapin joined St. Louis on the Air to discuss his role in fueling the sport's growth in St. Louis.
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In the years following the Civil War, a plan to move the nation's capital to St. Louis won significant support. Journalist Livia Gershon discussed her new piece in Smithsonian Magazine on St. Louis on the Air.
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Legal Roundtable on "St. Louis on the Air" digs into the last month of litigation and criminal cases, including lawsuits over St. Louis' earning tax, a potential legal battle over Medicaid expansion and a recent 8th District ruling on a class-action lawsuit over actions of the St. Louis police.
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Almost exactly two years after County Executive Steve Stenger's indictment, the region has a new set of leaders. What should be on their agenda? "St. Louis on Air" discusses the local to-do list with Anita Manion of the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
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An abolitionist, minister and newspaper editor, Elijah Lovejoy was the first American journalist slain for his work. Journalist Ken Ellingwood discusses his new biography, "First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery," on "St. Louis on the Air."
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For several decades, one of the most persistent theories of Cahokia's collapse has blamed self-inflicted ecological disaster. By studying soil samples, Caitlin Rankin’s research debunks that. She discussed it on "St. Louis on the Air."
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If you’ve ever been shocked, or horrified, by the price of prescription drugs, Michael Kinch’s new book is for you. He discussed on "St. Louis on the Air" what he found writing “The Price of Health.”
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For 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, the St. Louis Crisis Nursery welcomes children in need of care due to factors like homelessness, illness or extreme parental stress. Molly Brown discussed the nursery's 35-year history on "St. Louis on the Air."
