The Pitt News has a long history at the University of Pittsburgh and has groomed decades of… The Pitt News has a long history at the University of Pittsburgh and has groomed decades of undergrads for careers in journalism as well as other fields.

Such names as Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “Wonder Boys” and “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay,” Steelers’s commentator Myron Cope, and Michael Clinton, executive vice president of Hearst Magazines, are all Pitt News alumni.

Anthony Breznican, a movie reporter for USA Today who has interviewed the likes of Tom Hanks and Jack Nicholson, was planning on being an English teacher after college, but his experiences at The Pitt News shifted his focus to journalism. “It was a front seat to life