Progressive press: When the Lee family of newspapers agreed to buy Pulitzer, Inc., it also inked an unusual deal that'll continue the progressive editorial slant of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for at least five years. The paper's platform, adopted in 1911, includes the pledge that it "will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty."

It makes St. Louis an even more fitting host for this weekend's National Conference on Media Reform. See who's blogging from the conference here (including our friends at Be the Media).