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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · 8d

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · 12d

Does that follow the same funding trend? Or why is that, in your understanding?

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · 12d

An @apnews.com photo of a Louvre mystery man set off a photography debate newsrooms should be watching:

"...the best way for users to know if an image like this is authentic is for the A.P. to say, 'We know the photographer who took this — this is a real image.'"
🎁: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/s...

Is This Dapper Man Going to Crack the Louvre Heist Case?

www.nytimes.com

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · 20d

As Pennsylvania’s budget impasse passes the 100-day mark, rape crisis centers are struggling to maintain services and worry that continued financial strain could erode critical support for more than 26,000 survivors a year, one-third of whom are children.
www.instagram.com/p/DP4KcQ_kSP...

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James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 21d

Some fantastic photos from Quinn Glabicki and @stephstrasburg.bsky.social featured here.

Pittsburgh's Public Source @publicsource.org · 21d

Kickflips and clubbing in Oakland; snakes and sparring in southern Pittsburgh. Our photographers visited Oakland and Brookline, Carrick and Overbrook and printed what they saw in zines. Find them around the neighborhoods! buff.ly/4UUxVDQ

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks for sharing, James! 📸🫡

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · 28d

The pockets for art, music, construction, and filming his YouTube channel offer space to balance the demands of his psychiatry practice and serve as an homage to the philosophy that saved his life. More from Vint in
@publicsource.org
here: www.publicsource.org/medical-care... #mentalhealth

Practicing psychiatry left me suicidal. Converting my pickup into an off-roader let me explore the world — and recover mine.

Psychiatrist Vint Blackburn reflects on mental health struggles in the stressful medical profession and the unlikely therapy found in a pickup.

www.publicsource.org

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · 28d

As a photojournalist for over a decade now (eep), I've been in a lot of homes around the Pittsburgh region. With its Star Trek stained glass windows, built-in enclosures for his therapy snakes, and a workshop for constructing his bug-out vehicle, Vint's may take the cake as the most eclectic. 1/2

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · 28d

OMG I'm awful, starting over!

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · 28d

The pockets for art, music, construction, and filming his YouTube channel offer space to balance the demands of his psychiatry practice and serve as an homage to the philosophy that saved his life. More from Vint in @publicsource.org here: www.publicsource.org/medical-care... #mentalhealth

Practicing psychiatry left me suicidal. Converting my pickup into an off-roader let me explore the world — and recover mine.

Psychiatrist Vint Blackburn reflects on mental health struggles in the stressful medical profession and the unlikely therapy found in a pickup.

www.publicsource.org

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Pittsburgh's Public Source @publicsource.org · 29d

Hot off the presses and ready to hit the streets — two new zines for our Oakland neighbors and our neighbors in Brookline, Carrick and Overbrook. @stephstrasburg.bsky.social even built a reading nook to celebrate!

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · Oct 1

Two Sundays ago in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood... hanging out with the Pitt climbing club, with Mario, at The Corner's Steelers watch party, and the Schenley Plaza carousel. Looking forward to sharing a community project featuring stories on Oakland's four neighborhoods soon! @publicsource.org

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · Sep 26

Today in PGH: Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

The screening, which tells Renaud's story through his final footage in Ukraine, is followed by a Q&A session w/ filmmakers & journalists, who will discuss journalist safety in today's media landscape.

www.backyarddocs.com

Backyard Docs

www.backyarddocs.com

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · Sep 12

"..several international organizations...had offered to buy or accept a donation of the contraceptives. The government would have incurred no costs or might have even been able to recoup taxpayer funds under those scenarios.

..the administration decided to proceed with destroying the products..."

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · Sep 12

“This decision will cost lives, derail progress in global health & strip millions of people of the basic tools they need to plan their families and protect their health.”

The $10 million in destroyed contraception had been purchased for women in low-income countries. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Rich Lord @richelord.bsky.social · Sep 11

Speech on campus — in the form of research, classroom instruction or student activism — has rarely been more fraught. If Academic Freedom has influenced your life, please tell us how. We may share it with readers next week. www.publicsource.org/academic-fre...

What has Academic Freedom meant to you?

Share your input on academic freedom in higher ed — the freedom to research, publish and discuss relevant issues without censorship.

www.publicsource.org

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · Sep 5

Working from Blawnox, PA today, which made me think of photographing late bluegrass legend Mac Martin here at the Starlite Lounge before his 2015 retirement. I'll never forget the way he talked about his wife and his life, just a pure peace and energy of love about him.

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yes, thank you, already subscribed! 🫡

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · Sep 2

Great talk, Andy... I have so many things to read and other curators/photographers to look up in my notes now! Send in the coffee...

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · Sep 2

"Elliott Erwitt, a Magnum photographer, said that contact sheets should be kept 'as private as conversations with a psychiatrist... A contact sheet lays bare the action of an entire shoot..." whether over a min., an hr, a day.

Gift article for my fellow photo nerds: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/a...

The Analog Allure of Photographers’ Contact Sheets

www.nytimes.com

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · Aug 29

Deepening the context of why we mark Labor Day,
@stevemellon412.bsky.social/Pittsburgh Union Progress traveled to West Virginia for the story of America’s deadliest workplace disaster & the hundreds of sickened workers who died, then were hidden & forgotten: www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/28/a...

At Hawk’s Nest, hundreds of sickened workers died, then were hidden and forgotten; it wasn’t an accident - Pittsburgh Union Progress

Sam Ward spent the first few minutes of Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1933, trying to suck enough air into his lungs to keep himself alive. Most likely he was lying on a bed in a crudely built shack near a smal...

www.unionprogress.com

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · Aug 29

Steelmaking deaths like the 2 this month at U.S. Steel’s Clairton plant were once almost routine.

Now, deadly explosions are big news, but construction/transport jobs are bigger killers.

A look at the worker safety landscape, then & now: www.publicsource.org/clairton-cok... @publicsource.org

Fatal explosions are big news, but construction, transportation jobs are now bigger killers

The Clairton Coke Works explosion killed 2 and injured 10. The tragedy highlights progress and lingering risks in U.S. workplace safety.

www.publicsource.org

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · Aug 28

We had a deep conversation on process as rush hour traffic whizzed by above us. I'm often moving quickly, but I love the times when I get to photograph like this. Read this important reporting, part of a series on involuntary mental health care: www.publicsource.org/racial-dispa... @publicsource.org

Involuntary ‘302’ hospitalizations fall more heavily on Black patients. Would AOT be different?

Data from Allegheny County and neighboring states reveals the racial disparities behind court-ordered mental health care. Would AOT be different?

www.publicsource.org

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · Aug 28

What followed was a photo session led by inspiration in a space that previously held deep trauma for him. We followed pieces of graffiti, toyed with the spray of passing boats, twisted glass to find the right reflections, & talked on the phone as we tried to line up a photo from a distance apart.

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Stephanie Strasburg @stephstrasburg.bsky.social · Aug 28

Treble NLS suggested we return to the place where he was handcuffed in the midst of a mental health crisis for portraits for @venuri.bsky.social's story on how involuntary ‘302’ hospitalizations fall more heavily on Black patients. Trusting his vision, I met him at the edge of the Mon Wharf. 🧵

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