Meet AmyJo Brown of the Pittsburgh Media Partnership
Since her junior high days, AmyJo Brown has been writing stories for one publication or another. Her passion for journalism has taken her from her high school newspaper in Beaver County to The East Oregonian to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette to the Pittsburgh City Paper. For the past year, she’s been project editor at the Pittsburgh Media Partnership, a collaborative of 22 local media outlets NEXTpittsburgh is one of them dedicated to supporting a diverse media ecosystem in our region.
Why was the Pittsburgh Media Partnership formed?
We wanted to work on a large enterprise reporting project something that would allow us all to dig into and report a story in all of its complexity. We were all set to do that literally on the call where we were discussing the first story’s publishing date when the first stay-at-home orders were issued. We decided that we were going to switch everything up and change our focus, be more