Ann Belser, former business reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the newspaper’s former business editor Bryan Hyslop have started a newspaper for neighborhoods in the city’s East End called Print.
Kim Lyons of Next Pittsburgh writes, “Belser and Print editor Brian Hyslop, former Post-Gazette business editor, had been thinking about launching a community newspaper for a while, perhaps post-retirement [Full disclosure: Belser was my colleague and Hyslop was my editor for part of my tenure at the Post-Gazette]. But when the Post-Gazette offered buyouts to employees last fall, the two decided it was time. So the buyout money from their former newspaper is helping fund Print.
“‘When we tell people what we’re doing, the universal reaction is ‘Oh I had a paper like that when I was growing up,” Hyslop says. ‘There’s an emotional connection to the small-town newspaper.’
“Print‘s editor and publisher believe they can build on that nostalgia in the East End while providing something that serves the community. As they say in the About section of their website, ‘Print reflects our faith in the era in which newspapers arrived at your door and you could clip out and post proudly the articles about your kids or business.'”
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