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
A team of doctoral students is one of 10 finalists in the Amazon Alexa Taskbot Challenge.

Pitt team creates ‘inclusive,’ ‘collaborative’ AI for Amazon competition

By Madison Dean, Staff Writer • March 2, 2023
Pitt is one of 10 university teams selected for the Alexa Prize Taskbot Challenge 2, a competition hosted by Amazon that began in January 2023. This challenge invites teams to build chat bots, or dialogue systems, that can assist users with DIY tasks around the home.
People arrive for work at the Amazon distribution center in the Staten Island borough of New York, on Oct. 25, 2021.

Editorial | Amazon needs to care about its workers

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • April 7, 2022
Amazon should care more about the well-being of their workers rather than invest money in union-busting.
Opinion | Stop wasting your time with the lie of ethical consumerism

Opinion | Stop wasting your time with the lie of ethical consumerism

By Lucas DiBlasi, Senior Staff Columnist • June 2, 2021
For one thing, ethical consumerism needs to impact companies’ bottom line to change their behavior, and “voting with your wallet” almost never actually does so.
Jerry’s Records in Squirrel Hill.

Opinion | Support your local record stores

By Rachel Soloff, Staff Columnist • October 23, 2020
October 24th is Record Store Day.
Juan Bonetti, senior member with a double major in communication and psychology is the president of Panther Relations PR.

Student-run PR firm attracts Amazon, Adobe

By Charlotte Pearse, Staff Writer • November 19, 2019
Campus-based PR firm Panther Relations started by doing work for student organizations. Now, they have big-name clients like Amazon, Moe's and Adobe.
"Downton Abbey" title card.

Weekend Watchlist: Period pieces

By The Pitt News Staff • November 15, 2019
Time travel isn’t real, but the best next thing would have to be period pieces — movies and television shows that are set in an earlier period. They allow you to be transported back in time without leaving the 21st century — or your couch. Here are our favorite period pieces available to stream.
Opinion | Using social media for social change

Opinion | Using social media for social change

By Ana Altchek, Staff Columnist • September 2, 2019
In wake of the devastating Amazon fires, it seems like Instagram users have picked up a new trend of posting climate-related articles and memos to their stories.
In this aerial image, A section of the Amazon rainforest that has been decimated by wildfires on August 25 in the Candeias do Jamari region near Porto Velho, Brazil. According to INPE, Brazil's National Institute of Space Research, the number of fires detected by satellite in the Amazon region this month is the highest since 2010.

Editorial: Tweets won’t save the Amazon

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • August 27, 2019
Going vegan or donating to organizations dedicated to rainforest conservation won’t ultimately help save the Amazon.
Pittsburgh dodged a bullet with Amazon HQ2

Pittsburgh dodged a bullet with Amazon HQ2

By Delilah Bourque, Senior Staff Columnist • November 27, 2018
The deals offered to Amazon in both New York and Virginia could spell disaster to some of the residents in Long Island City and Arlington — and in some cases it already has.
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto recently announced the City’s plan to release its Amazon bid to the public, after months of refusing and claiming it contained trade secrets.

Editorial: Peduto to release Amazon bid: too little, too late

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • November 14, 2018
Peduto will release Pittsburgh’s Amazon headquarters bid on Thursday, but he should have done that a lot earlier. Pittsburgers deserve to know about major, local economic developments.
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