Media in Pittsburgh

The Pitt News, a financially independent, student-produced newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh, has operated for roughly a century.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Law also hosts JURIST, the world's only university-based legal news service.

The Radio Information Service, broadcasting on a subcarrier of WESA provides special programming for the blind and print impaired.

In 2010, Nielsen will continue to rank Pittsburgh as the 23rd largest television Designated Market Area (DMA) in the country, with 1,154,950 households.

Other definitions of the "Pittsburgh region" extend into Ohio border counties with some sources including several Ohio counties and as far south & west as the Kentucky border and north into the extreme southwest of New York State.