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Pittsburgh's Public Source is now in the running as a #Pittsburgh#Marathon fundraising option! 📰 🎽 🏃♀️ Inspired by a reader who asked to run for us, we’re now welcoming anyone who wants to raise gifts to support our nonprofit newsroom as part of their marathon training. If you’re participating, we’d love to have your support!
You can sign up as a runner, or make a gift in honor of someone who's running, on our fundraising page here: https://lnkd.in/ei2uNpEE
The Urban Redevelopment Authority board vote is one more step toward an infusion of investment in the #Pittsburgh Downtown business district, funded in part by taxes from the North Shore and Strip District. The board also voted to sell a property to the area’s leading advocate for the Latino population.
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Today, Pittsburgh's Public Source and The Associated Press partnered to publish the first of two stories from Clairton, Pa., where Japan’s Nippon Steel recently purchased U.S. Steel.
Six months after a deadly explosion and after decades of pollution, residents living in the shadow of the Clairton Coke Works, many coping with cancer and asthma, are asking whether this merger will finally deliver accountability and long-promised investment, or simply prolong a legacy of illness and decline.
I'm thrilled to have our talented teams work together which is a highlight of AP's Local News Success initiative.
Great to work with this talented team in across both newsrooms including committed reporting, compelling photos and video lead by Quinn GlabickiJessie Wardarski and Josh Kelety. Ted Anthony's editing and mentorship helped to guide us to port and Caleb Jones' versatile skills brought us in for the most beautiful landing.
Read the first story now, with part two coming tomorrow.
After months of trying to make sense of and process my absolutely life-altering experience being in Ecuador over the summer, writing and drafting, and pouring over photos, notes, recordings, and video, Pittsburgh's Public Source published my new essay on the Amazon, and what it meant for how I see my home in back in Appalachia.
The response since this piece came out on Friday reminds me why I wrote it in the first place. I've gotten so many emails and DMs from people all over the world, and very, very close to home about how they view living in their post-industrial places: how they thought they were the only ones who felt a certain way about it, and how complicated those feelings can be. Others wrote to me about indigeneity and sense of place, and how my essay either reaffirmed or changed how they viewed both. The warmth and gratitude I am feeling this week from all your messages is truly unparalleled.
It was so wonderful to publish with Public Source again after so many years — last time I worked with y'all, I was an intern! Thanks a million to Richard Lord and Jamie Wiggan for your excellent work and guidance in editing this piece and getting it through to the finish line. Thanks to Pittsburgh for being so patient while I found my way to loving you.
Link to read the piece here: https://lnkd.in/g9WXBWR2
Ahead of the April NFL Draft in #Pittsburgh, some — but not all — of the city’s arts venues are looking to cash in on the swell of visitors.
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The University of #Pittsburgh's William Pitt Debating Union, a top-ranked team with more than 30 members, may not be able to travel to competitions following a steep cut.
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"Pittsburgh has a great opportunity to transform its news coverage. It will become a missed opportunity if it does not center community voices as it develops new solutions." Letrell D. shares guest commentary on the path forward for local journalism in #Pittsburgh.
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“Armed queers don't get bashed.” >>> When I started visiting with Pink Pistols Pittsburgh in August, it was for a relatively quick video piece on a small LGBTQ Second Amendment community. But as the fall unfurled, it was clear that what was a pretty niche subject had gone national, and the pro-gun, pro-gay organization was in the middle of heated rhetoric around trans gun ownership. In the wake of January's unrest in Minnesota, the chapter's firearms training classes were selling out months in advance.
As the conversation sped up, as a photojournalist, it was time to slow down. It's a complicated time to ask vulnerable communities to put their face and thoughts out publicly. At the same time, representation allows for other people from those communities to see themselves, and for people outside of those communities to see "the other" as human. The amount of risk someone is able to accept as a source may fluctuate, and as journalists, it's our job to have those difficult conversations around safety and pivot when the information points in new directions. It also means our fact-check game has to be on point, not only to present the best facts in fast-changing times, but also to protect the people that we're associating with those facts. These are all parts of why it took months to make a four minute video.
Between 2015 and 2024, the national number of reported hate crimes doubled, even as violent crime rates declined. Pink Pistols Pittsburgh founders say this drove a “present need for us to create a community of LGBT gun owners.” At the base of what seems like a boiling political moment, Pink Pistols chapters seek to cast a wide political net. “I think when you hear ‘LGBT community’ and then you hear ‘firearms training,’ a lot of people instinctively think these are leftists, these are liberals … But that's not part of our mission at all.” Lex, a member of the Pink Pistols Pittsburgh says, “If you're an American citizen, you have a right to keep and bear arms.”
“If enough LGBT people start carrying and being loud and visible about it, that will make bigots and extremists and people who might be motivated to commit a hate crime think twice before they try to attack an LGBT person, essentially changing the narrative and changing the perception of LGBT people that we are weak … that we are snowflakes,” said Lex from the couple’s basement-turned-dry-firing range, where they practice target shooting and honing their reflexes without ammo.
Thank you to Lex, Kevin and Kei to having these deep conversations with me, and for my colleagues at Pittsburgh's Public Source for their many-layered help.
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With the shuttering of the two-century-old Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the weekly alternative Pittsburgh City Paper, leaders of some local newsrooms gathered Thursday evening to discuss the future of local journalism in the region.
At Public Source, we're focusing our energy on serving you in this moment of change — listening closely, reporting carefully and staying rooted in the region we serve.
We’ll soon be launching You Have the Floor, a series of town halls across the region where community members will be invited to share what matters to them and how they want journalists to show up.
This builds on Public Source’s track record of community-focused storytelling and constructive accountability journalism. We want to be a resource for others to learn from these sessions, so we’ll also invite other journalists to attend and publish recaps for all to see.
Keep an eye out here or on publicsource.org for more details.
