Founding Worker Member Steve Mellon was in Downtown Pittsburgh to document the sights, sounds and union spirit of the city's annual Labor Day parade. We'll be sharing here throughout the day photos from the event. More coverage coming soon to PittsburghProgress.com.

Founding Worker Member Steve Mellon was in Downtown Pittsburgh to document the sights, sounds and union spirit of the city's annual Labor Day parade. We'll be sharing here throughout the day photos from the event. More coverage coming soon to PittsburghProgress.com.

Founding Worker Member Steve Mellon was in Downtown Pittsburgh to document the sights, sounds and union spirit of the city's annual Labor Day parade. We'll be sharing here throughout the day photos from the event. More coverage coming soon to PittsburghProgress.com.

For the Pittsburgh Progress, Labor Day isn’t just a federal holiday. What it stands for is at the roots of who and what we are. Join us Sept. 7 in Downtown Pittsburgh for the annual Labor Day parade. Learn more about the Pittsburgh Progress origin story: pittsburghprogress.com/new-media-co...

Union nurses and nurse practitioners attended a rally across from Allegheny General Hospital, a day before SEIU Pennsylvania kicked off contract negotiations with the multibillion-dollar health care network. Check out the Pittsburgh Progress to learn more: pittsburghprogress.com/agh-nurses-f...

With Labor Day around the corner, we're highlighting important moments and figures in the city’s union history – people like union organizer Fannie Sellins. Founding Worker Member Steve Mellon recounts the great price she paid for her tenacity and courage: pittsburghprogress.com/what-on-eart...

“We don’t need permission from a rich person to do this work.” @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strikers who are now worker-owners of @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social, a cooperative newsroom covering the communities corporate media leaves behind.

Former Strikers Start Cooperative News Organization

Following firings from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, workers and community members came together to create the Pittsburgh Progress.

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What does Western Pennsylvania high school football mean to you? It all kicks off again on Aug. 28. To get ready, check out contributor Steve Rotstein’s comprehensive preview: pittsburghprogress.com/gridiron-tou...

The crisis nursery Jeremiah’s Place opened its Hilltop location this summer. Contributor Joyce Gannon has more details on ways it plans to serve the community: pittsburghprogress.com/safety-net-w...

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul Council’s new thrift store opened Aug. 17 in West Mifflin. Contributor Joyce Gannon shares how the society plans to serve the community through its latest retail location: pittsburghprogress.com/st-vincent-d...

Pittsburgh residents: Did you attend Little Italy Days? While the event draws around 100,000 people each year, locals are mixed about the direction it should take in the future. What do you think? Read the story by founding community member Amanda Reed: pittsburghprogress.com/little-italy...

Where is Donta Green? The revered Westinghouse football coach is hard at work with his athletes gearing up for their season-opening scrimmage against Erie at 8 p.m. Aug. 22. Steve Rotstein shares how in his team preview: pittsburghprogress.com/westinghouse...

The Pittsburgh Progress is in the news! Thanks @pghcitypaper.com for the coverage of our local news cooperative.

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The group of former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who led a historic three-year strike has waded through a lot of adversity and uncertainty over the past few years. Almost four years since the start of the now-finished strike, the group has officially started a new publication...

The founders of the Pittsburgh Progress want to inject their community-centric publication with a spirit of labor solidarity, writes @riddhisetty.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/on_the_job/s...

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The founders of the Pittsburgh Progress want to inject their community-centric publication with a spirit of labor solidarity.

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Who says community has to center around alcohol? The Nightshade Lounge in Dormont is the newest queer-owned sober establishment, part of a growing wave of alcohol-free gathering spaces across Pittsburgh. LEARN MORE: pittsburghprogress.com/queer-owned-...

Iron City FC is on a mission to make a positive impact – in Pittsburgh and beyond. Learn more about what’s new for the soccer club and its founder in this story from Founding Worker Member Rob Joesbury: pittsburghprogress.com/iron-city-fo...

What are the struggles that unite the working class, then and now? Find out in "American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA,” a curated selection of Federal Writers’ Project interviews. Check out the review by @merylscreech.bsky.social & editor Q&A: pittsburghprogress.com/review-ameri...

Local news works best when it's accountable to the people it serves. That's why the Pittsburgh Progress is proud to be Pittsburgh's first modern-era daily news cooperative. Readers can become members, too. Learn more & sign up today: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

It’s always great to be on Max’s show and it was especially so to be on with Steve Mellon to talk about what we’ve been working on for months! Follow @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social for updates and check out our website (where one of stories is written by me!)

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The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital nurses are demanding that UPMC follow staffing standards by the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses. Read more to learn how their contract battle not only impacts staff but also the families they support: pittsburghprogress.com/union-nurses...

Union nurses, lactation consultants at Magee struggle with staffing shortages amid contract battle with UPMC

Delivering a baby can go as well as possible, said Liana Montes, and yet it can still be traumatic for someone giving birth. That’s why the labor and delivery nurse at UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital sai...

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Former @post-gazette.com workers went on strike for 3+ years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social “owned and democratically run by its workers and members.” therealnews.com/worker-owned...

Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.

Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...

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A wonderful new review by @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social! “Visible at the core of this collection is the importance of building relationships, trust and shared responsibility with the people in our communities who might experience life differently than we do.” Book info: tinyurl.com/mw99v842

Review: 'American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA' connects U.S. readers to our working-class truth

Plus: Read a Q&A with Belt Publishing founder Anne Trubek

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My dear colleague, fellow striker, and purged Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalist Steve Mellon tells the story of how we got started and decided to build @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social. Please give it a read and consider supporting our efforts by sharing and signing up to learn more!

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Billionaires are dominating the media, but we don't have to live like this! The Pittsburgh Progress aims to change that. Our people-first news organization was forged by a team of union journalists and community members. Learn more & how you can join us: pittsburghprogress.com/new-media-co...

Working people’s news, regional matters, sports, sports with heart, and even book reviews. Check out the Pittsburgh Progress!

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Now live at pittsburghprogress.com! Preview this and more stories ⬇️

Billionaires are dominating the media, but we don't have to live like this! The Pittsburgh Progress aims to change that. Our people-first news organization was forged by a team of union journalists and community members. Learn more & how you can join us: pittsburghprogress.com/new-media-co...

This new media cooperative invites the community to join us on our journey of creation

Welcome to the Pittsburgh Progress, a news organization forged by a team of union journalists and community members. That’s us. We own this thing. It’s a cooperative. You can be an owner, too. You sho...

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Now live at pittsburghprogress.com! Preview this and more stories ⬇️

Erin Hébert@merylscreech.bsky.social · last mo.

For @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social, I reviewed "American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA," new from @beltpublishing.bsky.social and featuring words from @atrubek.bsky.social and @kimkelly.bsky.social. It's a banger of a book, and I loved writing about it. pittsburghprogress.com/review-ameri...

Introducing: the Pittsburgh Progress Preview what we’re all about with a sampling of stories and ways you can get involved, now live on our website. Visit our website to sign up for updates and learn about subscription and membership options: pittsburghprogress.com Hard launch coming fall 2026!

With your support, we’re ready to build something new, together. Coming July 27: preview the Pittsburgh Progress. Sign up for updates: pittsburghprogress.com

We learned during our strike & community town halls that: ✒️ many working people feel like they’ve been failed by traditional media ✒️ there is an opportunity to build something better for Pittsburgh We agree. ♥️ Coming July 27: preview the Pittsburgh Progress. SEE UPDATES: pittsburghprogress.com

You fought alongside us during our three-year newsroom strike. You believed in us – and trusted us to tell your stories then. Now we’ve created, with community support, a new way to share your stories. Coming July 27: Preview the Pittsburgh Progress Sign up for updates: pittsburghprogress.com