Dear Readers: What has Pittsburgh Contributed to the World?
In our upcoming Spring issue, we’re going to examine the Pittsburgh region’s contributions to the world, and we need your help.
We want to know what noteworthy contributions Pittsburgh and Pittsburghers have made – whether here or across the globe – to make the world a better and more interesting place. It could be (and likely is) anything or anyone. Could be someone or something that’s well known or a person or thing that has lived until now in relative obscurity.
Please give this some thought. Maybe ask family members around the holiday table to do the same. And let us know what you come up with – by emailing your thoughts to editor@pittsburghquarterly.com by January 5.
Thanks and best wishes for the holidays and for a 2025 that begins to see a more resurgent Pittsburgh on a path to become the best place to live in the world. —- Douglas Heuck
A journalistic innovator, Heuck has been writing about Pittsburgh for 37 years, as an investigative reporter and business editor at The Pittsburgh Press and Post-Gazette and as the founder of Pittsburgh Quarterly. His newspaper projects ranged from living on the streets disguised as a homeless man to penning the only comprehensive profile in the latter years of polio pioneer Dr. Jonas Salk to creating a statistical means of judging regional progress that has led to similar projects across the country. Heuck's work has won numerous national, state and local writing awards. His work has been cited in the landmark media law case "Food Lion vs. ABC news."
