William H. Freivogel
CAMPUS CONSORTIUM ADVISORY COUNCIL, GRANTEE
William H. Freivogel is a professor and former director of the School of Journalism School at Southern Illinois University and publisher of the Gateway Journalism Review. He worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 34 years, serving as assistant Washington Bureau Chief and deputy editorial editor.
Editorials about civil liberties abuses by Attorney General John Ashcroft were a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2002; he won the ABA’s Silver Gavel Award in 2016 for legal analyses written for St. Louis Public Radio about the death of Michael Brown. The Journalism Review’s "1857 Project" in 2020 won a Sigma Delta Chi award and honorable mention for a Silver Gavel. Special editions on police accountability and the shrinking legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court won nation EPPY awards in 2022 and 2023.
