Inducted 2019
Jeannette Batz Cooperman’s byline appeared in many publications over the span of her career. She spent ten years as an investigative reporter for The Riverfront Times and fifteen years at St. Louis Magazine, earned a doctorate in American studies, and wrote five books. Her work also appeared in national magazines, the Post-Dispatch, and Barnes Hospital and Saint Louis University publications, and she later wrote three pieces a week for Washington University’s journal of the essay, The Common Reader.
Cooperman’s efforts were recognized with many awards, including the City & Regional Magazine Association’s national Writer of the Year award and, four times, the Great Plains Journalism Writer of the Year award.
