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

Livia Daggett, Copy Chief

Livia Daggett is a senior double majoring in politics-philosophy and nonfiction writing. She loves that this is the only job where you get paid exclusively for nitpicking. You can find her petting other people’s cats and agonizing over whether to go to law school. Email her at  with places to get a yummy meal in Pittsburgh for less than $10 or complaints in solidarity about the AP policy on Oxford commas—one day, we’ll all wear them down together.

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The Atlantic says some elite college students ‘can’t read books’ — can Pitt students?

The Atlantic says some elite college students ‘can’t read books’ — can Pitt students?

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor
October 27, 2024
Opinion | Why Pittsburgh needs a rental registry — and why we’re still waiting on one

Opinion | Why Pittsburgh needs a rental registry — and why we’re still waiting on one

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor
October 7, 2024
Review | Remi Wolf and Lava La Rue bring big energy to Pittsburgh on the ‘Big Ideas’ tour

Review | Remi Wolf and Lava La Rue bring big energy to Pittsburgh on the ‘Big Ideas’ tour

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor
September 30, 2024
Goats at the Pittsburgh County Fair.

Pittsburgh County Fair brings pawpaws, fermented beets and ’emotional composting’ to the North Side

By Livia Daggett and Gabriela Herring
September 18, 2024
The cover Sabrina Carpenter's Short n' Sweet album.

Sabrina Carpenter cements her pop queen status with ‘Short n’ Sweet’

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor
August 29, 2024
(from left to right) Copy Chiefs Grace Longworth and Livia Daggett

Meet the Editors: Copy

By Livia Daggett and Grace Longworth
August 26, 2024
Clairo at The Roxy

Review | Clairo’s third album is sweet ‘like the sap from a cedar’

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor
July 23, 2024
A protester records an interaction between police and protesters at the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on Sunday night.

Opinion | Pitt taught me to stand up against injustice, then sent police to beat my classmates

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor
June 6, 2024
Junior social work major Allison Butterfield (left) and sophomore neuroscience major Malak Ayoub (right) pose for a photo in the stockroom of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh Food Pantry.

Islamic Center of Pittsburgh Food Pantry Volunteers: Fighting food insecurity for all Pittsburghers

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor
April 15, 2024
Love letters from Tuesday evening’s workshop in the Text and conText Lab of Hillman Library.

‘Love in Letters’ participants print labors of love on Hillman’s 19th-century press

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor
February 16, 2024
Opinion | Sabbath traditions can remind us all that rest is sacred

Opinion | Sabbath traditions can remind us all that rest is sacred

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor
February 7, 2024
The “Garden Railroad: Pennsylvania Through the Four Seasons” exhibit sits on display in Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in January.

‘Choo choo!’ Garden railroad display delights visitors young and old at Phipps

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor
January 29, 2024
Opinion | Your guilt at buying from Shein is your moral compass desperately knocking

Opinion | Your guilt at buying from Shein is your moral compass desperately knocking

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor
January 26, 2024
Opinion | Making art when you’re depressed feels impossible — do it anyway

Opinion | Making art when you’re depressed feels impossible — do it anyway

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor
January 17, 2024
Opinion | ‘Girl dinner’ is starving us of critical thinking about gender

Opinion | ‘Girl dinner’ is starving us of critical thinking about gender

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor
October 8, 2023
Opinion | Pittsburgh is not Pitt’s playground — it’s our community

Opinion | Pittsburgh is not Pitt’s playground — it’s our community

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor
August 16, 2023
Liann Tsoukas: The ‘most hugged professor’ of Pitt History

Liann Tsoukas: The ‘most hugged professor’ of Pitt History

By Livia Daggett, Assistant Copy Chief
April 10, 2023
Allison Schaeffer and Livia Daggett, copy chiefs.

Meet the Editors: Copy Desk

By Livia Daggett and Allison Schaeffer
August 29, 2022
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