The Northside Chronicle is the community newspaper of Pittsburgh’s historic Northside. As the Northside community’s first and only newspaper since 1985, we pride ourselves on providing hyper-local coverage of the people, events, places and developments in our 18 neighborhoods. Our monthly circulation is 4,000 printed newspapers. We deliver to over 200 locations across every Northside neighborhood and our 10 free newspaper boxes for convenient pick-up. Paid subscriptions are also available and support the important work that we do.
As modern communications shifted, The Chronicle launched its website, free weekly e-newsletter subscription, and joined the world wide web of social media platforms to stay connected to current and new readers in 2010. Throughout the years, it has also been a place for talented writers, whether students from local universities or residents with a penchant for history, to polish their skills and knowledge while building a published portfolio of their work. In addition to the essential coverage that community newspapers provide for their readers, The Chronicle also provides real professional opportunities for growth in today’s ecosystem of local, regional, and national news landscapes.
Requests for coverage, story ideas, news tips, and press releases should be sent to:
Sean P. Ray – Managing Editor | [email protected] | 412-342-7014
Tina Rapacchietta – Business Manager | [email protected] | 412-912-9531
The Northside Chronicle also offers affordable, effective advertising priced for our small business community, and strives to be a positive asset to the Northside and beyond. After weathering the effects of a global pandemic that further shifted communications and ideas about news, The Chronicle remains steadfast in serving its readers, advertisers, and writers, with a newly launched website in 2023.
Partnering with a specialty tech company solely-focused on community newspapers throughout the states, our new website provides unique in-house functions that transform our print product into quality and timely digital stories for our online readers. It also adds extra value to our print advertisers with automatic digital displays ads plus an updated business directory in our new Marketplace from their print advertisement through a tool widely known as data scraping. Plus, new features like our updated Classifieds page, reader polls, news tip forms, event submission, and much more.
In addition to building a better online experience, The Chronicle has also partnered with other Pittsburgh community news outlets, including Pittsburgh Community Newspaper Network and Pittsburgh Media Partnership, to join together in navigating the city’s news needs and shared-future as a whole.
Our Board:
-Mark Masterson
-Walt Nalducci
-Karen Wiles
-Derek Uber
-Debbie Reed
-Leah Moore
-Dan Knopp
The Northside Chronicle also offers affordable, effective advertising priced for our small business community, and strives to be a positive asset to the Northside and beyond. After weathering the effects of a global pandemic that further shifted communications and ideas about news, The Chronicle remains steadfast in serving its readers, advertisers, and writers, with a newly launched website in 2023.
Partnering with a specialty tech company solely-focused on community newspapers throughout the states, our new website provides unique in-house functions that transform our print product into quality and timely digital stories for our online readers. It also adds extra value to our print advertisers with automatic digital displays ads plus an updated business directory in our new Marketplace from their print advertisement through a tool widely known as data scraping. Plus, new features like our updated Classifieds page, reader polls, news tip forms, event submission, and much more.
In addition to building a better online experience, The Chronicle has also partnered with other Pittsburgh community news outlets, including Pittsburgh Community Newspaper Network and Pittsburgh Media Partnership, to join together in navigating the city's news needs and shared-future as a whole.
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Our Policies:
Disclaimer:
The viewpoints and opinions of the writers and contributors that appear in the Northside Chronicle do not necessarily reflect the viewpoints, opinions, beliefs or positions of the Northside Chronicle’s publishers, editors, staff and/or affiliates. The Northside Chronicle is not affiliated with any formal political, social, religious, educational or philosophical organization or party of any kind. The materials comprising the Northside Chronicle are provided by various organizations, community groups, advertisers, entities, writers and contributors and are provided as a service to the readers of the Northside Chronicle on an “as-is” basis for informational purposes only. The Northside Chronicle assumes no responsibility for any copyright infringement, errors or omissions in these materials and expressly disclaims any representations or warranties, express or implied, including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose regarding the correctness, accuracy, completeness, timeliness and reliability of the information provided. The Northside Chronicle is not responsible for damages of any kind arising out of use, reference to, or reliance upon such information. Reference herein to any commercial product, process or service does not constitute or imply endorsement or favoring by The Northside Chronicle. © The Northside Chronicle 2025
Corrections:
Should The Northside Chronicle be made aware of the need to correct or clarify an article, the correction/clarification will immediately be made to the article's online version and a correction/clarification will appear in the next edition of The Chronicle. All corrections/clarifications should be sent to the Managing Editor, at [email protected].
Editorial Independence:
We subscribe to standards of editorial independence adopted by the Institute for Nonprofit News:
Our organization retains full authority over editorial content to protect the best journalistic and business interests of our organization. We maintain a firewall between news coverage decisions and sources of all revenue. Acceptance of financial support does not constitute implied or actual endorsement of donors or their products, services or opinions.
We accept gifts, grants and sponsorships from individuals and organizations for the general support of our activities, but our news judgments are made independently and not on the basis of donor support.
Our organization may consider donations to support the coverage of particular topics, but our organization maintains editorial control of the coverage. We will cede no right of review or influence of editorial content, nor of unauthorized distribution of editorial content.
Our organization will make public all donors who give a total of $5,000 or more per year. We will accept anonymous donations for general support only if it is clear that sufficient safeguards have been put into place that the expenditure of that donation is made independently by our organization and in compliance with INN’s Membership Standards.
Donor Transparency:
We are committed to transparency in every aspect of funding our organization.
Accepting financial support does not mean we endorse donors or their products, services or opinions.
We accept gifts, grants and sponsorships from individuals, organizations and foundations to help with our general operations, coverage of specific topics and special projects. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that operates as a public trust, we do not pay certain taxes. We may receive funds from standard government programs offered to nonprofits or similar businesses.
Our news judgments are made independently – not based on or influenced by donors or any revenue source. We do not give supporters the rights to assign, review or edit content.
We make public all revenue sources and donors who give $5,000 or more per year. As a news nonprofit, we avoid accepting charitable donations from anonymous sources, government entities, political parties, elected officials or candidates seeking public office. We will not accept donations from sources who, deemed by our board of directors, present a conflict of interest with our work or compromise our independence.
Editorial Collaboration Policy:
Our news organization is committed to editorial independence and transparency in all of our reporting. As such, any collaboration with external partners must align with our mission and uphold our commitment to editorial excellence.
We approach editorial collaborations with the following guidelines in mind:
- All collaborations must be disclosed to our readers, including the names of any partners and the nature of the collaboration. This disclosure will be made in a prominent location, such as the top of the story or on a dedicated page on our website, and will be clearly labeled as a collaboration. Any financial support for a collaboration will also be prominently disclosed.
- Our editorial staff maintains full control over the content produced by our outlet as part of the collaboration. This includes maintaining control over the reporting, writing, editing, and fact-checking of all content produced as part of the collaboration. If there is disagreement on the final versions of stories any participant has the right to not publish a story that has been created from a collaboration.
- We will not enter into collaborations that compromise our ethical, content, and reporting standards or that would give the appearance of a conflict of interest. This includes collaborations with partners that have a financial interest in the outcome of the story or that have a history of attempting to influence our reporting.
In addition to these guidelines, we also have the following proactive measures in place to ensure the integrity of our collaborations:
- We will establish clear guidelines and expectations with partners before entering into a collaboration, and pursue only those projects that advance our editorial mission. This includes discussing and agreeing upon the goals and objectives of the collaboration, as well as the roles and responsibilities of each party. Collaboration partners will be expected to fact check their own pieces and to adhere to the highest journalistic standards for accuracy and fairness.
- We will review the work produced as part of the collaboration before it is published to ensure that it aligns with our standards and practices.
- We will have an open line of communication with partners throughout the collaboration to address any issues or concerns that may arise.
By adhering to these guidelines, we ensure that our collaborations enhance our reporting and serve the public interest.
