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
Editorial | A free world demands a free press

Editorial | A free world demands a free press

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • April 15, 2025
After years working as student editors, they have learned a lot about the challenges and importance of a free press — especially in an age where that freedom may be at risk. Each Pitt News editor has engaged with this newspaper in a very different way, and as such, each editor has learned a very different lesson about what journalism looks like in a free world. 
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, April 7, 2025.

Editorial | Abracadabra! There goes economic stability

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • April 11, 2025
From the rise of minimalism and clean girl aesthetics to the resurgence of “The Hunger Games” and upcharges on eggs in restaurants, the signs are all around us that something is off.
Editorial | The GPT-4 Studio Ghibli trend again reveals a horrible misappreciation for human-made art

Editorial | The GPT-4 Studio Ghibli trend again reveals a horrible misappreciation for human-made art

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • March 31, 2025
Ignoring the potential violations and oversteps of copyright law, the ability to immediately generate images in an artist’s specific style completely waters down the messaging and intentions of their work.
Mario’s Oakland Saloon.

Editorial | There is no place for Nazism in the city of Pittsburgh

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • March 28, 2025
In an era of performative activism and Instagram repost warriors, Pitt students and the Pittsburgh community have a real chance to make a difference and speak up for what they believe in — that Nazism has no place in our city.
United States President Donald Trump holds a news briefing at the White House on Aug. 4, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

Editorial | Trump is a danger to the First Amendment

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • March 18, 2025
Trump, though he has dubbed himself and his protégé Elon Musk as the last line of defense against freedom of speech, is the greatest threat to our First Amendment rights. 
Editorial | Pitt Administration must listen to its students’ electoral demands

Editorial | Pitt Administration must listen to its students’ electoral demands

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • March 14, 2025
The passing of these referendums does not guarantee a future Pitt with these policies. Merely, the passing of these referendums shows university administration what the students want. Pitt administration should listen and comply with the will of its student body.
Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey answers questions from moderator Ann Belser at the Mayoral Forum at Chatham University on Sunday, Feb. 2.

Editorial | We’re still waiting for better candidates

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • February 28, 2025
This week’s Pitt News Editorial discusses the upcoming mayoral election and the candidates in the race.
Editorial | All rise for our fearless leader

Editorial | All rise for our fearless leader

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • February 18, 2025
If something walks like a fascist and talks like a fascist, it’s not overdramatic to call it a fascist.
“Free Mom Hugs” at the Equality March in 2019.

Editorial | Hate is not inherent, it is taught

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • February 14, 2025
No one is intrinsically hateful. It is a learned action. No one is born to look at another human being and feel intense vitriol and loathing, like you are better than them for some characteristic that neither you nor they have any control over.
Editorial | Do not fall for Trump’s anti-DEI rhetoric

Editorial | Do not fall for Trump’s anti-DEI rhetoric

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • February 3, 2025
As simple as it is, the anti-DEI rhetoric espoused by our nation’s right-wing pundits is anti-Black rhetoric. It has been since the start of Trump’s reelection campaign, and many are starting to not bother trying to mask their blatant racism.
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