Katie Blackley
Digital Editor/ProducerKatie Blackley is a digital editor/producer for 90.5 WESA and 91.3 WYEP, where she writes, edits and generates both web and on-air content for features and daily broadcast. She's the producer and host of our Good Question! series and podcast and can usually be found exploring the city, answering inquiries from curious listeners. She also reports on Pittsburgh's LGBTQ+ community and manages social media accounts for the station.
She's the author of a book based on the Good Question! series.
Katie lives on the North Side with her wife and several pets. She’s passionate about puns, all things Pittsburgh, and believes someday she’ll solve the Pittsburgh Protractor Mystery.
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While observing Black History Month, students at Barrett Elementary School experienced an interactive museum, featuring live actors portraying historical figures, traditional music and storytelling.
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In a meeting room at the Jeron X. Grayson Community Center in the Hill District, a group of seven teens led a few dozen families in the reading of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s renowned “I Have a Dream” speech.
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During the Great Depression, a work-based program helped fix Pittsburgh infrastructure, build new schools, hospitals and highways.
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The massive Mellon Institute in Oakland has long been a staple of industrial research. Local folklore suggests there’s a mystery column buried nearby — is it true?
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The historic marquees on the Benedum Center Downtown are getting a facelift. The two iconic blue and golden signs on Seventh and Penn Avenues were last fully restored about 100 years ago. That’s when the Benedum was called the Stanley Theatre, which included vaudeville performances and later showed movies.
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A building along the Ohio riverfront trail seems blighted, but actually has a history connected to a prominent Pittsburgh industrialist. The land on which it stands could one day be the site of a Ferris Wheel.
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The grave of former Negro Leagues baseball infielder Ernest Gooden was formally recognized with a special marker Friday afternoon in North Braddock. The event was part of a new initiative by the local Josh Gibson Foundation to identify and celebrate the lives of Black baseball players throughout western Pennsylvania.
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U.S. Attorney Eric Olshan said in an indictment released Friday that Brian and Krystal DiPippa stand accused of conspiracy and obstruction of law enforcement.
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Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and Steelers legend Franco Harris. They’ve all been honored with what’s called a key to the City of Pittsburgh. Does the key unlock anything?
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Juneteenth marks the day when the last enslaved Black people in the U.S. learned they had been emancipated in 1865. It became a state holiday in 2019, and a city and federal holiday in 2021. WESA has curated a list of events happening this weekend and on the holiday.