With an abundant supply of national news stories, you might ask why we don’t report on national news stories outside of Pittsburgh and the campus community.

This is a fair question, especially because some of these stories do still have a reach on our campus to some people.

However, national news is not our focus. Trying to combine both national news and student-centric news would make our paper go from an eight to ten page paper to a 20 page paper.

While The Globe excels in covering what matters on campus and to the Downtown community, other outlets excel in national news. 

If you want recommendations, we recommend looking at outlets such as the Associated Press, Reuters, and any of the newspapers of record such as The Boston Globe.

However, this doesn’t mean that we will flat out refuse to cover big news if it matters to our students. For instance, the presidential election is clearly important to the people we serve and we will always make sure to cover every election here.

Elections aren’t the only story bigger than the local area that we will cover. Typically, newspapers may try to localize a national story so that it matters to readers.

For instance, last semester we ran an opinion piece trying to localize the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore to a Pittsburgh audience, covering which bridges would be in danger of collapsing if hit by a similar barge to what struck the bridge in Baltimore. 

In the past, we have leaned into only catering for students and not covering much of what happens on the administrative side and outside our few buildings. 

This semester, we’ve worked to change this by covering more of what matters to all our readers, not just students.

Also, we want to stress the importance of local news in each community. Without local news, there is no institution to hold those in power accountable and nowhere to turn for accurate information on what happens. The rumor mill is not a news source. 

Recognizing this, we hope to provide reporting that remains focused on the local, campus-level scale when possible.

Rest assured, The Globe constantly strives to cover anything and everything at Point Park and the surrounding area that is relevant to our readers. But if you have a story pitch or you think a national piece can be localized to the campus-community, tell us. We want to cover what matters to you, our readers.