PITTSBURGH, PA – With the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette closing, there has been a lot of talk of creating a worker-run newspaper. Clearly, the city that played a key role in founding the labor movement deserves a worker-owned newspaper, but it can’t be run by the same clique of very white, boring journalists who’ve run the media world in this town for decades.
Yesterday, Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato talked about providing public support for the local news ecosystem. There clearly needs to be a system that allows a variety of local news outlets to apply for grants awarded to a diverse group of folks.
There are lots of great projects in this city that could vitally use that support, but for now, the conversation seems to be focused on one publication: reviving the Pittsburgh Union Progress, the strike newspaper set up during the three-year-long strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.…