Pittsburgh is home to the first commercial radio station in the United States,
KDKA 1020AM; the first community-sponsored television station in the United States,
WQED 13; the first "networked" television station and the first station in the country to broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
KDKA 2; and the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains, the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. It is one of the few mid-sized metropolitan areas in the U.S. with two major daily papers (the other being
Tampa-St. Petersburg); both the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review have histories of breaking in-depth investigative news stories on a national scale. The alternative papers in the region include the
Pittsburgh City Paper; the
The Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh;
The New People, published weekly by the
Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Social Justice; the
New Pittsburgh Courier, one of the larger ethnic publications in the region; and
Zajednicar, the only Croatian-language newspaper currently published in the United States.
The Pitt News, a financially independent student-written and -managed newspaper of the
University of Pittsburgh, is closing in on its 100th year of publication. The
University of Pittsburgh School of Law also hosts
JURIST, the world's only university-based legal news service.