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Martin Duggan – 2006

Martin Duggan’s career in St. Louis media spans some 60 years but it’s as a journalist that St. Louis first came to know Duggan. He calls his stint as the news editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat his favorite job, but it was at the helm of the paper’s editorial page from 1972 to 1984 that generations of St. Louisans remember him best. For years, he remained the conservative conscience of the city and region. Duggan left the Globe in 1984. In 1986, Duggan was inspired to create Donnybrook after watching Sunday morning television shows such as The McLaughlin Group. Duggan saw his role on the show less as host or moderator, and more of provocateur. It should come as no surprise to fans of the show that the man who rode herd on the rowdy panel was a Marine during World War II. Duggan has said, “Well, I’m a conservative, but I’ve got more friends among the Democrats than the Republicans. They’re friendly people, for one thing, and there are more of them.”

Linda Eardley – 2011

Linda Eardley showed up for her first day of work at the Post-Dispatch in 1969 to see row after row of white men, typing, smoking and yelling. She would soon learn that she was the first woman reporter hired onto the city desk. After a few months of working general assignment, Eardley was assigned to work with other female writers for the now-defunct Women’s Page and Sunday Society Page. In 1972, she returned to the increasingly diverse city desk where she worked for the next 24 years as a general assignment and Illinois reporter, education reporter, assistant Illinois editor and fill-in for a variety of day and night editors. Among her most memorable stories, she listed those on  excessive spending by the St. Louis Schools superintendent; the murder-for-hire of the highly insured inventor Victor Null; the St. Louis schools desegregation case; and being a part of the on-going coverage of major stories such as the flood of 1993. She retired from the Post-Dispatch in 2005.