WESA Partnerships

The WESA newsroom collaborates with multiple local and regional outlets and organizations across Pennsylvania, including:

The Allegheny Front is an award-winning radio program covering environmental issues in Western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting, WESA’s parent company, acts as fiscal sponsor for The Allegheny Front; the WESA newsroom collaborates with The Allegheny Front to bring their decades of experience in environmental journalism to our airwaves and website.

WESA regularly shares reports and features with other NPR stations in the region, including WITF (Harrisburg), WHYY (Philadelphia), WPSU (State College), WLVR (Lehigh Valley), WVIA Public Media (Scranton), WDIY (Bethlehem) and West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

WESA also has forged a collaborative with The Allegheny Front, Ideastream public media in Cleveland and West Virginia Public Broadcasting to provide ongoing coverage of the environmental, financial and political impacts of the 2023 derailment of a chemical-laden Norfolk-Southern freight train in East Palestine, Ohio.

StateImpact Pennsylvania is a public radio reporting collaborative that covers Pennsylvania’s energy economy.

PublicSource and WESA have partnered and continue to produce multiple collaborative reporting projects on education, affordable housing, political campaigns and advertising, community development, public health and other topics of relevance to residents of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania.

WESA also partners with Spotlight PA, a collaborative, reader-funded newsroom, to jointly produce and distribute award-winning accountability journalism for all of Pennsylvania.

Since 2023, WESA has partnered with the American Press Institute and other Pittsburgh media organizations within API's Inclusion Index Pittsburgh cohort to develop and implement plans for improving engagement with communities of color. The project emphasizes training newsrooms in deep community listening practices to develop an in-depth understanding of diversity- and inclusion-related challenges within the Pittsburgh news ecosystem, and by doing so improve our relationships in and coverage of traditionally underserved and marginalized communities.

WESA also has a variety of media partners. These media partners are fellow nonprofit organizations with whom we work for mutual amplification of our missions in service to the Pittsburgh region.