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Misinformation’s antidote? Fact-checked journalism

by Halle Stockton June 7, 2023June 7, 2023

Though it’s been no easy feat for a news outlet our size, we’ve been fact-checking our stories for more than a decade. We add time to the publication process — from hours to days — to put every story we produce and publish through a fact check.

Kalilah Stein, 14, on Thursday, May 18, 2023, in her neighborhood of Carrick. Kalilah learned to shoot at a young age from her grandfather. Now she lives in a neighborhood that has seen two young people shot fatally this year. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)
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I learned how to pull a trigger, and the same lessons are crucial to addressing gun violence

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Allegheny County executive candidates, from left, Theresa Sciulli Colaizzi, Dave Fawcett and Sara Innamorato, at an April 18 debate. The Democrats reflected three different approaches to campaign funding, with Innamorato raising six-figure donations from unions and a progressive organization, Fawcett lending his campaign $500,000 and Colaizzi raising just $100 total. Innamorato won the primary. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)
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Updated: Campaign finance regulations won’t face veto, Allegheny County Council member says

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Nick Liadis, an avian ecologist and founder of Bird Lab, disentangles a magnolia warbler from netting strung up at a research outpost in Hays Woods, above the Monongahela River, on May 17.
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Signals from songbirds: How feathered migrants help scientists save local ecosystems

by Quinn Glabicki May 25, 2023May 29, 2023
A scooter is parked in the middle of the sidewalk across the street from a Spin docking station at Schenley Plaza. Disability advocates say the vehicles take up valuable sidewalk space. (Photo by Ann Belser/NEXTpittsburgh)
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Are Spin scooters a helpful way to get around or a public safety issue?

by Ann Belser May 23, 2023May 23, 2023
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Ny’Jai and Ny’Ela Chapman, both 18, stand for a portrait in the teen section at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Homewood on Friday, May 12, 2023, in their neighborhood of Homewood. The Youth Research Advisory Board of the SPIN (Space and People In Neighborhoods) Project, of which both sisters are a part, listed the library as a supportive place to gather as they mapped the neighborhood. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)
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We, the youth, mapped our feelings as we lived our lives in Homewood. The city must do better for our neighborhood.

by The SPIN Project Youth Research Advisory Board May 19, 2023May 20, 2023
Braddock Library Director Rachel Brehm sits in the office in the back of the cramped storefront space that is serving the community while the 134-year-old permanent facility is renovated. (Photo by Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource)
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Updated: Mon Valley libraries get $3.8 million for ‘transformative’ changes

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Developers presented this rendering of a proposed project in Strip District to the City Planning Commission on May 2, 2023.
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Updated: Developer wins OK for riverfront project in Strip District

Avatar photo by Eric Jankiewicz May 16, 2023May 16, 2023
A fracking well in Greene County. Membership by Pennsylvania in the multi-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative would likely reduce the use of natural gas in the state, but might have less of an impact on the drilling industry because most of its production is sent elsewhere, according to a new study. (Photo by Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource)
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New study bolsters case for PA to join Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

by Jon Hurdle, Inside Climate News May 13, 2023May 14, 2023

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