The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

Data (After) Lives opened at the University Art Gallery Sept. 8. Abigail Self | Staff Photographer

Frick exhibit mixes data, arts to explore humanity

By David Robinson / Staff Writer October 11, 2016

Inside the Frick Fine Arts Building, a woman’s voice counts the seconds eerily and methodically through a speaker hidden amongst the stations while visitors stroll through the department’s current...

Novelist Patti Smith visited Carnegie Music Hall for a book lecture Monday night. TNS

Author, musician Patti Smith visits Pittsburgh

By Emily Baranik / Staff Writer October 11, 2016

Author, musician and poet Patti Smith has spent so much time writing about the past — most notably in her best-selling 2010 memoir, “Just Kids” — that she wanted to linger for a moment in the present....

Craig Street gets paved. Courtesy of University Library Systems

The men behind the streets: the history of campus street names

By David Robinson / Staff Writer October 10, 2016

The historical reporting in this story is from information found in the University’s Special Collections at Hillman Library, unless otherwise noted. Every day, Pitt students wake up in bedrooms on...

Raka Sarkar | Staff Illustrator

Growing pains: mom and pop shops move out of Oakland

By Stephen Caruso / Contributing Editor October 7, 2016

This is part one of a series by staff writer Stephen Caruso about how Oakland’s businesses and the community have changed since the 1990s — for better or worse. Stay tuned for the next installment,...

Trib Total Media plans to focus more on local coverage without its print publication, as of November.
Stephen Caruso | Senior Staff Photographer

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review to cut print newspaper

By Lauren Rosenblatt / News Editor September 29, 2016

Trib Total Media announced Wednesday that its flagship publication, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, will cease printing a physical, daily newspaper and will only publish online beginning in November. The...

Port Authority plans to update Oakland bus stop

By Alexa Bakalarski / Assistant News Editor September 27, 2016

The inbound bus stop at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Atwood Street could get an upgrade with more room, more seating and more lighting by the end of this year. The Port Authority proposed a...

An SUV and a sedan crashed on Fifth Avenue Saturday evening. Photo: J. Dale Shoemaker / Managing Editor

UPDATED: Pitt student charged after crashing into bookstore

By Lauren Rosenblatt / News Editor September 26, 2016

City police have charged a Pitt student with driving under the influence and causing personal injury, after he caused a car crash Saturday evening that sent three people to the hospital with minor injuries. After...

The bus accident took place near upper campus in October 2015. | Dale Shoemaker / Contributing Editor

Port Authority settles on fatal crash case

By Emily Brindley / Assistant News Editor September 26, 2016

The Port Authority of Allegheny County reached a settlement agreement on Friday with the family of a couple killed in a bus accident near upper campus last October. The Pitt News reported on Oct. 26,...

Donald trump addresses a crowd at the Shale Coalition Conference held at David Lawrence Conference Center. Jordan Mondell | Assistant Visual Editor

Trump speaks at Pittsburgh Shale Conference

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump outlined his energy plan in Pittsburgh Thursday, which he said would improve the United States economy by reducing restrictions on the energy industry. At...

Protestors marched outside the David Lawrence Convention Center where Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gave a speech on his energy policy at the Shale Insight Convention. Stephen Caruso | Senior Staff Photographer

Pittsburgh weighs in on fracking

On land lined deep with Marcellus shale and the ancient fossil fuels it blankets, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump preached energy investment at a shale and natural gas convention Thursday. Outside...

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