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The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5] The site attracts more than 30 million unique visitors per month and is among the top 40 trafficked websites in the world. [4]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
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The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, also known as "the Trib", is the second-largest daily newspaper serving the Greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area of Western Pennsylvania.It transitioned to an all-digital format on December 1, 2016, but remains the second-largest daily in Pennsylvania, with nearly one million unique page views monthly. [2]
He grew up with his mother, Barbara Peck, who is a career coach, and his maternal grandmother. Peck has never publicly identified his father, who was a married co-worker of his mother, and Peck's birth was the result of an extramarital affair. Peck never met his father, who died in 2013. [4] Peck is Jewish, as are both his parents.
The Morning Chronicle was established on June 26, 1841 by Richard George Berford. At first a semi-weekly paper, it became a daily on September 8 of the same year. The original editor was 19-year-old J. Heron Foster, who would later be the founding editor of the Spirit of the Age and the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
In early March 1910, Vann drew up incorporation papers for the Pittsburgh Courier and began writing contributions. [5] Through Vann's connections, the paper was able to attract wealthy investors, including Cumberland Willis Posey Sr. [6] On May 10, 1910, the Pittsburgh Courier was formally incorporated, with Vann handling the legal details. [7]
From June 2005 to June 2011, Mistick was the first woman President and Director of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. [11] [12] In 2008, Barbara K. Mistick, then the president and director of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and David M. Shribman, the executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette worked together to produce "Pittsburgh 1758 - 2008."