William H. Freivogel is a professor and former director of the School
of Journalism School at Southern Illinois University Carbondale 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. He writes about civil rights, civil liberties and the U.S. Supreme Court, which he covered while in Washington. He worked his way through Washington University Law School and was named its distinguished young alumnus in 2008.

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 and in 1992 for a series marking the 200th birthday of the Bill of Rights. He was lead writer on a Post-Dispatch project marking the 200th anniversary of the Constitution in 1987, which won the Ben Franklin award for the best in the nation. Journalism review projects in 2022 and 2023 on police accountability and the Supreme Court won national recognition.

Freivogel shared a job with his wife, Margaret Wolf Freivogel, in Washington, where she covered the White House. She was later editor of the St. Louis Beacon and St. Louis Public radio. They have four children and eight grandchildren.