Tube City Writers Tube City Writers welcomes investigative reporter Rich Lord, of Public Source, to the McKeesport Community Newsroom on Thursday, January 27 from 6 to 8 p.m. To learn more about Rich, you can read his bio below.
This Tube City Writer session will be held virtually on Zoom Link is below:
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https://zoom.us/j/94619831156?pwd=WXhta0QrblFvUEoxdU9sR2N4ZGRPQT09
Meeting ID: 946 1983 1156
Passcode: 538040
Rich is a reporter and assistant editor at PublicSource. He joined the team in 2020. He reported for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 2005 through early 2020, leading projects on child poverty, the opioid epidemic, communities with concentrations of people accessing mental health services, and the federal use of confidential informants. He has covered the federal court and city government beats, and was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting, for reporting on the Tree of Life massacre. Rich has also worked for the Pittsburgh City Paper and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He wrote a 2004 book about the subprime mortgage industry, called “American Nightmare: Predatory Lending and the Foreclosure of the American Dream.”
All are welcome to attend. No experience is needed to participate.
Contact Project Manger Martha Rial for more information: mrial@pointpark.edu