Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Pittsburgh Press, formerly The Pittsburg Press and originally The Evening Penny Press, was a major afternoon daily newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for over a century, from 1884 to 1992. At the height of its popularity, the Press was the second-largest newspaper in Pennsylvania behind The Philadelphia Inquirer.
[5] [6] The structure still stands in downtown Pittsburgh's Fourth Avenue Historic District. The Pittsburg Daily News was launched in 1896 as the sister newspaper and evening counterpart of the morning Times. Half a decade later it was bought and absorbed by the city's leading evening paper, The Pittsburg Press. [7] [8]
Philadelphia Front Page News - Philadelphia; The Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia; Philadelphia News - Philadelphia (Russian language) Philadelphia Tribune - Philadelphia; Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh; Pocono Record - Stroudsburg; Potter Leader Enterprise - Coudersport; Press Enterprise - Bloomsburg; The Progress - Clearfield ...
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.Descended from the Pittsburgh Gazette, established in 1786 as the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains, the paper formed under its present title in 1927 from the consolidation of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and The Pittsburgh ...
From 1938, Biederman covered the Pittsburgh Pirates, becoming the Press' sports editor in 1966; excluding his military service in World War II, he served in both capacities until his retirement in 1969. [3] For the final 20 of those years, Biederman was also a correspondent for The Sporting News. [4] [5] [6]
Newspaper names are simplified to their constant and dominant elements. Papers with both daily and non-daily editions are shown as daily. Some minor and/or short-lived evening editions of primarily morning papers (Dispatch, 1848; Post, 1854; Commercial, 1863–64; Post-Gazette, 1960; Tribune-Review's weekday Trib p.m., 2003–2011; Post-Gazette's online Press, 2011–2015) are not shown.
Pittsburgh (/ ˈ p ɪ t s b ɜːr ɡ / PITS-burg) is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the 68th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 census.
Chet Smith, the sports editor of the Pittsburgh Press, was initially the one who wrote in a column the moniker Steagles for the merged team, [13] in a June 23, 1943 column. [ 14 ] Slowly, the team began to come together, and jumped out to a 2–0 start after defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants at Shibe Park .