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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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.
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The West End neighborhood has an enchanting name. Learn why it was given such a moniker, and how the community’s evolved over the years.
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Pittsburgh summers include fantastic concerts, live performances and other entertainment. Here’s a running list of various events taking place in the city for the next few months.
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Prominent Pittsburgh transgender activist and businesswoman Wendi Miller died last week at age 75. Miller was the owner of Miller Frame for 50 years, where she employed transgender women and provided a safe space for the LGBTQ community.
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The Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority said residents in parts of Central and Upper Lawrenceville, East Liberty, Garfield, Highland Park, Morningside, Stanton Heights can now resume using their water as they would typically.
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Multiple schools and other buildings in Pittsburgh — and around the state — were locked down Wednesday morning after receiving reports of an active shooter, although public safety officials in Pittsburgh and elsewhere said they found no evidence of the claims.
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How a local runner ran the length of every street in the city over the past 16 years — and how he managed to keep track of them all.
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The roughly 33-foot-tall mound was a barrier to development and transportation. Its removal helped solidify Grant Street as a main thoroughfare in the Golden Triangle.
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A model of the original 19th-century Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh is the latest addition to the Carnegie Science Center’s Miniature Railroad and Village exhibit.