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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.
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]
Earl Buford (1941/1942 – July 25, 2023) was an American police officer. A longtime leader in the Pittsburgh Police, he served as Pittsburgh Police Chief from June 15, 1992 until December 29, 1995.
Robert Ward Duggan (January 27, 1926 – March 5, 1974) [1] served as Allegheny County District Attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for a decade, from January 1964 until his shooting death under mysterious circumstances in March 1974.
Andrew Jay Schneider (November 13, 1942 – February 17, 2017) was an American journalist and investigative reporter who worked for the Pittsburgh Press and Seattle Post-Intelligencer as a public-health reporter.
Front-Page Pittsburgh: Two Hundred Years of the Post-Gazette, (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005). A Patrician of Ideas: A Biography of A.W. Schmidt, (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 2006). This Far by Faith: The Community of Reconciliation Church History, (Pittsburgh: Community of Reconciliation, 2008).
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 ...
He served on the boards of Mendelssohn Choir, the Pittsburgh Dance Council, and Winchester Thurston School. Hetzel was the director of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1964 to 1994, significantly growing the publishing house. In his efforts to acquire the best available scholarship, he focused Pitt scholarly ...