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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
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‘Things are pretty grim out there’: Media censorship under the Trump administration

By Maxine Van Nortwick, Staff Writer • February 19, 2025
After a polarizing 2024 presidential election, some social media users may be feeling media burnout. But this onslaught of change isn’t slowing down anytime soon, according to Dr. Paul Johnson — especially with predictions of media censorship on the rise. 
Satire | A better use for editorial space

Satire | A better use for editorial space

By Anna Ehlers, Contributing Editor • April 17, 2024
While I am already impressed by how The Pitt News has taken advantage of ad opportunities, with many ads featured both on the website and in the print edition, I believe it would be to The Pitt News’ advantage to take your advertisement goals even further and replace editorial material with these helpful advertisements. 
Opinion | We should all try new types of entertainment

Opinion | We should all try new types of entertainment

By Kelly Xiong, Senior Staff Columnist • April 12, 2024
Entertainment comes in many forms, languages and genres. We often stick to a certain genre or language of whatever we’re comfortable with, but this limitation blocks people from discovering many other wonderful forms of entertainment. 
Opinion | Do I hate women?: Navigating female main characters

Opinion | Do I hate women?: Navigating female main characters

By Danae Poteat, Staff Columnist • April 3, 2024
I love women. They are truly one of the greatest products of the universe. But do I also hate women? Well, the answer is yes.
Objects on display at the “Camp on Campus” exhibit in the Cathedral of Learning on Mar. 4.

‘Camp on Campus’ exhibit examines the ‘camp’ aesthetic in media through the ages

By Irene Castillo, Staff Writer • March 23, 2024

“Camp” took social media by storm when the organizers of the 2019 Met Gala chose Susan Sontag’s essay “Notes on Camp” as its theme. On March 4, it took on Pitt’s campus with a one-day-only...

Mimesis | ‘Saltburn’: I Think, Therefore I Am Not

Mimesis | ‘Saltburn’: I Think, Therefore I Am Not

By Chloe Woodruff, Staff Writer • January 19, 2024
Mimesis is a biweekly blog that analyzes media through a philosophical and narrative lens.

Lord Only Knows | Welcome to Lord Only Knows

By Julia Smeltzer, Digital Manager • October 27, 2023

The Pitt News News Editor Ryleigh Lord kicks off the very first episode of “Lord Only Knows.” In her first installment, Lord introduces herself briefly to her new listeners and shares what movies,...

A Palestinian demonstrator, unseen, holds his national flag next to Israeli soldiers, during a demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, Friday Jan. 18, 2008.

Opinion | Rewriting history serves no one

By Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger, Senior Staff Columnist • October 23, 2023
How can you expect the Palestinians to accept their own destruction without resistance? This moral stain will never wash out.
The Atlantic Ocean.

Opinion | It wasn’t five people lost at sea, it was more than six hundred

By Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger, Staff Columnist • July 12, 2023
The reporting on the five wealthy passengers of the OceanGate submarine unfairly outweighed the coverage of the 700 refugees aboard the capsized vessel in Greece.
Students participate in painting the SNAP mural on Sunday.

SNAP collaborates with Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media for neurodiversity mural

By Anna Ligorio, Senior Staff Writer • January 29, 2023
The Special Needs Assistance Program for Social Engagement is designing a colorful mural over the next two weeks to celebrate neurodiversity in the Pittsburgh community. The 8-by-8-foot mural will hang on the first floor of Benedum Hall.
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