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''The Pitt News'' is an independent, student-written and student-managed
Started in the late 19th century as a quarterly literary magazine, ''The Courant'' is the earliest traceable ancestor of ''The Pitt News''. By 1910, it had morphed into a weekly student newspaper called ''The Pitt Weekly'', which premiered on September 26 of that year. Gradually, the paper began adding days to its production schedule. By the 1970s it was a business daily (Mon-Fri) paper. ''The Pitt News'' has remained an editorially independent, student-run newspaper - funded by a student-run business staff which provides revenue for the paper via ad sales.
On September 17, 1992, the Pitt News published the name of a sexual assault victim. Four days later, the Pitt News apologized for printing the victim's name. Pitt News editor in chief Jason Hillman said, "It was a mistake... no one was specifically responsible." Julie Sabol, the Pitt News employee who wrote the article, resigned her position as news editor, and said, "I left because of ideological differences with the editor in chief... The name of the victim was not put in the paper intentionally or with any malicious will."
In 2004 ''The Pitt News'', in the Third U.S. Circuit Court of appeals, overthrew PA Act: 199, which previously prevented Pennsylvania college newspapers from running advertisements making any mention of alcohol. The ACLU represented The Pitt News against the
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''The Pitt News'' official website
The Pitt News Advisory Board official website
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newspaper
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for the main campus of the University of Pittsburgh
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in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The Pitt News has been active in some form since 1910 and is published Monday through Friday during the regular academic year and Wednesdays during the summer.
About ''The Pitt News''
According to the constitution of ''The Pitt News'', the organization's purpose is "to prepare and publish a high-quality newspaper, to provide experience for its members in all facets of thejournalism
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profession, to provide a voice for the students of the university, and to provide a public forum for the university community."
''The Pitt News'' is a million-dollar non-profit operation employing more than 100 undergraduate writers, roughly 25 students in the business division and three professional staff members. The paper includes five regular sections: News, Opinions, Culture, Sports, and Classifieds. It also produces about a dozen special issues a year, such as the Dining, Employment and Rental guides. During the school year, circulation includes 13,000 copies an issue, distributed at approximately 100 sites. During the summer, the paper is published weekly each Wednesday with a circulation of 10,000. Currently, ''The Pitt News'' is printed by the Butler Color Press on tabloid-sized newsprint.
Overseeing ''The Pitt News'' is the Pitt News Advisory Board, which serves as publisher, and, according to its constitution, works to "advise students, support the freedom of the student press and further the educational mission of ''The Pitt News''." The Board consists of the editor in chief, the business manager, two other ''Pitt News'' employees, at least one non-''Pitt News'' student at the university, local journalists, university journalism and business professors, and area businesspeople.
History
Started in the late 19th century as a quarterly literary magazine, ''The Courant'' is the earliest traceable ancestor of ''The Pitt News''. By 1910, it had morphed into a weekly student newspaper called ''The Pitt Weekly'', which premiered on September 26 of that year. Gradually, the paper began adding days to its production schedule. By the 1970s it was a business daily (Mon-Fri) paper. ''The Pitt News'' has remained an editorially independent, student-run newspaper - funded by a student-run business staff which provides revenue for the paper via ad sales.
On September 17, 1992, the Pitt News published the name of a sexual assault victim. Four days later, the Pitt News apologized for printing the victim's name. Pitt News editor in chief Jason Hillman said, "It was a mistake... no one was specifically responsible." Julie Sabol, the Pitt News employee who wrote the article, resigned her position as news editor, and said, "I left because of ideological differences with the editor in chief... The name of the victim was not put in the paper intentionally or with any malicious will."
In 2004 ''The Pitt News'', in the Third U.S. Circuit Court of appeals, overthrew PA Act: 199, which previously prevented Pennsylvania college newspapers from running advertisements making any mention of alcohol. The ACLU represented The Pitt News against the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) is an independent government agency that manages the beverage alcohol industry in Pennsylvania by administering the Pennsylvania Liquor Code. It is responsible for licensing the possession, sale, sto ...
. The opinion was written by now Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
Notable alumni
*Leonard Baker
Leonard S. Baker (January 24, 1931 – November 23, 1984) was an American writer.
He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize, 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for ''Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews'' (Oxford Unive ...
- Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer
*Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon ( ;
born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, DC, he spent a year studying at Carnegie Mellon University before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, gr ...
- Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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", "Wonder Boys
''Wonder Boys'' is a 1995 novel by the American writer Michael Chabon. It was adapted into a film with the same title in 2000.
Plot summary
Pittsburgh professor and author Grady Tripp is working on an unwieldy 2,611-page manuscript that is mean ...
".
*Murray Chass
Murray Chass (born October 12, 1938, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American baseball blogger. He previously wrote for '' The New York Times'' and before that the Associated Press on baseball and sports legal and labor relations. In 2003 the ...
- Sports journalist for ''The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
''; recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award
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.
*Myron Cope
Myron Sidney Kopelman (January 23, 1929 – February 27, 2008), known professionally as Myron Cope, was an American sports journalist, radio personality, and sportscaster. He is best known for being " the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers".
Cope ...
- Color commentator for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
*Michael Clinton - Executive vice president, chief marketing officer, and publishing director of Hearst Magazines
Hearst Communications, Inc., often referred to simply as Hearst, is an American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate based in Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
Hearst owns newspapers, magazines, televis ...
. He was business manager for ''The Pitt News''.
* Sharon G. Flake - award-winning author of young adult literature
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The subject matter and genres of YA correlate w ...
.
* Chris Kuzneski - International bestselling author of '' The Prophecy'', '' The Lost Throne'', and '' Sword of God''.
* Neal Russo - Sportswriter for ''The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' is a major regional newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, serving the St. Louis metropolitan area. It is the largest daily newspaper in the metropolitan area by circulation, surpassing the ''Belleville News-De ...
'' and the '' Sporting News''.
*Joe Zeff - Sports editor at ''The Pitt News'', former graphics director for Time Magazine, former art director for The New York Times, and owner of Joe Zeff Design, Inc./ref> * Anthony Breznican, Senior Hollywood Correspondent at '' Vanity Fair''
See also
*'' University Times'' * WPTS-FMReferences
External links
''The Pitt News'' official website
The Pitt News Advisory Board official website
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