The Allegheny Front is part of a news partnership with new website PublicSource, and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The partnership’s first story reports on gas industry dollars funding university research. The Allegheny Front’s Jennifer Szweda Jordan interviews key players in this story: Allegheny Front reporter Reid Frazier, PublicSource editor Sharon Walsh, and Post-Gazette reporter Bill Schackner.

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