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37-563: The Pittsburgh City Paper is a free publication and is distributed in most neighborhoods throughout the Greater Pittsburgh area every Wednesday, with about 70,000 copies printed weekly. The City Paper was originally based in Duquesne, Pennsylvania . Like most alternative weeklies, the publication tended toward a left-wing viewpoint. Pittsburgh City Paper ' s slogan is "All Paper, No Plastic." The Pittsburgh City Paper

74-491: A disagreement over coverage of controversial Pennsylvania state representative Daryl Metcalfe . Deitch would go on to found the direct competitor, Pittsburgh Current , as a result. In 2023, a subsidiary of Block Communications Inc.—owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , Toledo Blade , and other local news organizations—bought Pittsburgh City Paper . The terms of the deal were not disclosed. In 2010,

111-635: A local community leader. Duquesne, Pennsylvania Duquesne ( / dj uː ˈ k eɪ n / dew- KAYN ) is a city along the Monongahela River in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania , United States, within the Pittsburgh metropolitan area . The population was 5,254 at the 2020 census . The city of Duquesne was settled in 1789 and incorporated in 1891. The city derives its name from Fort Duquesne . Duquesne Works,

148-422: A productive steel mill that was part of Carnegie Steel Corporation and later part of U.S. Steel , was the heart and soul of Duquesne during its brightest moments in the early 20th century. Duquesne was home to the largest blast furnace in the world, named the "Dorothy Six". Bob Dylan 's song Duquesne Whistle ( Tempest , 2012) is dedicated to it. The city's population peaked in 1930, then declined with

185-818: A public elementary school. Duquesne High School closed in 2007. Beginning with the 2007–08 school year, Duquesne students have reported to West Mifflin Area High School, or East Allegheny High School. Since July 2007, the Allegheny Intermediate Unit (AIU) has managed all academic and business operations of the Duquesne's K–8 school district. As of 2023 the School district now has grades 6-8 as well. The Daily News (McKeesport) The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review , also known as "the Trib",

222-614: A single ownership. Both papers continued separate publication until 1955, when they merged to form the Greensburg Tribune-Review . Scaife acquired the Tribune-Review in 1970, a decades after trying to acquire the Post-Gazette . From 1981 to 1982, he managed a short-lived eastern suburban newspaper, The Daily-Sunday Tribune . The Tribune-Review owns several satellite papers that insert or surround

259-490: A single title, the Tribune-Review . Home delivery was reduced in some parts of Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. Trib Total Media laid off 153 full and part-time workers from its staff of approximately 1,100, another 68 had accepted buyouts in October. The Pittsburgh edition of the Tribune-Review went all-digital after publishing its last print edition on November 30, 2016. The Greensburg-based Westmoreland edition and

296-739: A unionized newsroom and contract, was not affected. The company incorporated as Trib Total Media in the summer of 2005 and purchased Gateway Newspapers, a community publication group servicing approximately 22 communities, at the time, in and around Pittsburgh's Allegheny County. The company immediately laid off two managers. The exact number of proposed redundancies was not announced. In September 2005, Harrell announced his retirement as president of Tribune-Review Publishing Company, effective December 31, 2005. He had served as president since 1989. Several staff writers were laid off in December 2005 as two of Gateway's newspapers were discontinued. In May 2008,

333-603: Is locally owned and has no business relationship with other City Paper s found in other cities such as the Washington City Paper and Philadelphia City Paper . In 2016, Steel City Media sold the City Paper to the owners of the Butler Eagle . On May 15, 2018, City Paper terminated editor Charlie Deitch following pressure from City Paper and Butler Eagle publisher Butler Color Press after

370-702: Is the second-largest daily newspaper serving the Greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area of Western Pennsylvania . It transitioned to an all-digital format on December 1, 2016, but remains the second-largest daily in Pennsylvania , with nearly one million unique page views monthly. Founded on August 22, 1811, as the Greensburg Gazette and consolidated with several papers into the Greensburg Tribune-Review in 1889,

407-547: The Advance Leader . Many of those papers were several decades old. The company also announced major changes to the remaining Gateway publications including a revamp of the Pennysaver in the communities that have Gateway newspapers. Several published reports say the remaining community newspapers would expand coverage to include areas no longer serviced by Gateway publications. Other Gateway newspapers will now serve

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444-766: The CP news staff won 10 awards out of 11 nominations from the Press Club in western Pennsylvania. Individual winners included Charlie Deitch for Business Writing, Chris Young in Health and Medical reporting, Chris Potter for Columns and Bill O'Driscoll for Best Feature and Science and Technology writing. The news staff also won an award for its coverage of the 2009 G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh. Since 2010, City Paper staff writers have won more than two-dozen awards for journalism. Editor Charlie Deitch has won 16 Golden Quill Awards from

481-741: The Leader Times of Kittanning and The Valley Independent of Monessen from Thomson Newspapers . In late 1997, Scaife's NewsWorks facility opened in the North Hills . In December 1997, the Tribune-Review company purchased the North Hills News Record , even though four months earlier, then-Trib president Ed Harrell told the Pittsburgh Business Times that the company was not interested in

518-545: The News Record . Nine months after purchasing the North Hills News Record from Gannett Company , Tribune-Review Publishing Co. announced the paper would be merged with the Pittsburgh Trib . The News Record was most successful during the newspaper strike of the early 1990s. At its demise, the North Hills News Record had a daily circulation of more than 16,000, nearly 1,000 less than its circulation before

555-581: The Post-Gazette and the Trib reached a deal for one company to deliver both papers. The Post-Gazette would begin delivering the Trib to most of the area with some exceptions. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. On June 20, 2008, Trib Total Media publicly announced it was closing several weekly newspapers in the Gateway Newspapers chain. The papers affected include: Bridgeville Area News , North Journal , McKnight Journal , Woodland Progress , Penn Hills Progress , Coraopolis-Moon Record and

592-659: The Tribune-Review . This idea was proposed to Scaife and Ralph Martin by David Horchak, the Circulation Director of The Valley News Dispatch. Taking advantage of ABC rules that allowed declaring newspapers to include all circulation of a newspaper to be declared editions of a main newspaper. This did not keep David Horchak on when the Tribune-Review decided to have just two circulation directors after personnel cuts. According to surveys by International Demographics Inc., an independent media research firm in Houston,

629-560: The Great Depression and deindustrialization beginning after World War II. Today a stark post-industrial landscape, Duquesne has fewer total residents (5,565 at the 2010 U.S. census) than were the city's mill workers in 1948. According to the McKeesport Daily News , Duquesne has the worst performing schools in the state of Pennsylvania . Duquesne was designated a financially distressed municipality in 1991 by

666-686: The Greensburg Tribune-Review . Citing a "sagging economy", the Trib laid off more than four percent of its workforce in 2003, including freelance writers . More shakeups continued in 2005 as circulation numbers dropped and a top official left. An online message board featured back and forth fights between Pittsburgh and Greensburg employees. Edward Harrell, then-president of the Tribune-Review Publishing Company, announced in January 2005 that most of

703-487: The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, including two Ray Sprigle Memorial Awards for best-in-show. Between 2015-2017, News Editor Rebecca Addison has won three consecutive Sprigle Awards. Staff Writer Ryan Deto was the co-winner of the 2016 Sprigle award and in 2017 he was recognized for excellence in race reporting by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies for his coverage of detention and eventual deportation of

740-596: The Tarentum-based Valley News Dispatch edition remained in print. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, through reporter Chris Ruddy was heavily involved in spreading rumors about the death of Vincent Foster , an aid to the Bill Clinton administration. The Clinton White House had commissioned a report entitled the communication stream of conspiracy commerce which was came to light in 2014. Carl Prine , an investigative reporter for

777-416: The Trib bought it. In early 2000, the Trib announced the "News Record" name would retire after more than two years of a combined "Tribune-Review/North Hills News Record" banner. North Hills coverage would be wrapped into the Trib's neighborhoods section. In 2000, the Trib announced it would convert its Irwin -based paper, the daily (except Sunday) Standard Observer , into a twice-weekly regional section of

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814-402: The average family size was 3.00. In the city the population was spread out, with 28.3% under the age of 18, 9.6% from 18 to 24, 24.3% from 25 to 44, 18.6% from 45 to 64, and 19.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 80.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 75.1 males. The median income for a household in the city

851-432: The city. The population density was 4,035.0 inhabitants per square mile (1,557.9/km ). There were 3,768 housing units at an average density of 2,073.7 per square mile (800.7/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 38.92% White , 57.75% African American , 0.15% Native American , 0.14% Asian , 0.01% Pacific Islander , 0.74% from other races , and 2.29% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.72% of

888-591: The communities served by those titles. In November 2015, Trib Total Media announced that they would be cutting back on home delivery of printed newspapers and emphasize digital delivery. The restructuring included the sale of two dailies and six weeklies to West Penn Media. Two papers were closed, The Daily News in McKeesport, and The Valley Independent in Monessen. The remaining papers, in Pittsburgh, Greensburg, and Tarentum, became regional editions of

925-738: The newspaper its only Pulitzer Prize . During a newspaper strike that temporarily shut down the Post-Gazette and ultimately closed the Pittsburgh Press , Scaife launched the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review , an edition of the Greensburg-based Tribune-Review covering Allegheny County and Pittsburgh. Over time, it became a stand-alone newspaper headquartered on Pittsburgh's North Side. In 1997, Scaife added to his small collection of newspapers by purchasing The Daily Courier of Connellsville ,

962-516: The newspaper, conducted a probe with the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes that highlighted the lack of security at the nation's most dangerous chemical plants following the September 11, 2001 attacks . The reporters, and a CBS camera operator, were charged with trespassing at a Neville Island plant during their investigation. They were later acquitted when the judge accepted that the story had been in

999-719: The number of Tribune-Review readers jumped 17.8 percent from 2007 to 2012. As part of the Trib Total Media conglomerate, the Tribune-Review has a news exchange partnership with WPXI, Pittsburgh's NBC affiliate. Until 2013, it was a sister publication to Pittsburgh's second-largest news radio station, KQV . Trib Total Media is the Official Newspaper of the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Pittsburgh Penguins (the latter of which Scaife

1036-402: The paper circulated only in the eastern suburban counties of Westmoreland and parts of Indiana and Fayette until May 1992, when it began serving all of the Greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area after a strike at the two Pittsburgh dailies, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Pittsburgh Press , deprived the city of a newspaper for several months. The Tribune-Review Publishing Company

1073-409: The population. There were 3,179 households, out of which 28.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 25.8% were married couples living together, 27.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.7% were non-families. 37.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.28 and

1110-625: The public interest. In 2007, Prine's further investigation into the subject was featured in the PBS documentary series Exposé: America's Investigative Reports , in a two-part episode titled "Think Like A Terrorist." One Tribune-Review flap went national when Colin McNickle , then editor of the newspaper's editorial page, attended a July 26, 2004 speech at the Massachusetts State House given by Teresa Heinz Kerry , who had been

1147-541: The regional editions of the paper would have their newsroom, management, and circulation departments merged, and staff reductions would follow. The merged papers include the Tribune-Review of Greensburg, the Valley News Dispatch of Tarentum , The Leader-Times of Kittanning , The Daily Courier of Connellsville and the Blairsville Dispatch . The Valley Independent , the only paper with

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1184-493: The regional publication with neighborhood-specific stories. The Valley News Dispatch , of Pittsburgh suburbs Tarentum and New Kensington is one such satellite. Local journalism student John Filo worked for the publication while attending nearby Kent State University and served as the Valley News Dispatch ' s correspondent of the Kent State shootings . His photography that day has ascended to iconic status and won

1221-524: The state. Duquesne is located along the Monongahela River , approximately 12 miles (19 km) south of Pittsburgh . According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.2 km ), of which 1.8 square miles (4.7 km ) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km ), or 10.84%, is water. As of the 2000 census , there were 7,332 people, 3,179 households, and 1,853 families residing in

1258-668: The subject of two negative articles in the Tribune-Review's opinion pages. After the speech, there was a dispute between McNickle and Heinz Kerry over her use of the term "un-American activity." The daily Tribune-Review is published in three geographic editions: Pittsburgh, Westmoreland, and Valley News Dispatch. The Tribune-Review claimed to show the highest gains in readership over the past five years of any newspaper in America's top 48 markets, which were dominated by sinking readership. The growth can be attributed to purchases of other newspapers, which were then reclassified as editions of

1295-459: Was $ 19,766, and the median income for a family was $ 25,898. Males had a median income of $ 25,046 versus $ 22,272 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 12,067. About 31.3% of families and 34.7% of the population were below the poverty line , including 52.9% of those under age 18 and 19.7% of those age 65 or over. Nickole Nesby, Duquesne's first Black female mayor, took office in January 2018. Duquesne City School District operates

1332-750: Was known for spreading false rumors. In addition to its flagship paper, the company publishes 17 weekly community newspapers, the Pittsburgh Pennysaver , TribLive.com, and TribTotalMedia.com. The paper began as the Gazette on August 22, 1811. After a series of name changes and mergers it became the Greensburg Daily Tribune in 1889. In 1924, it and the Greensburg Morning Review , launched by David J. Berry in 1903, consolidated their interests under

1369-578: Was owned by Richard Mellon Scaife , an heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, until his death in July 2014. Scaife was a major funder of conservative organizations, including the Arkansas Project . Accordingly, the Tribune-Review has maintained a conservative editorial stance, contrasting with the then-more liberal Post-Gazette before that paper's own editorial shift in 2018 and

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