Jon is an award-winning investigative journalist, currently working as a copy editor and reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Before that, he was the fourth-ever editor-in-chief of The Pitt News to serve for two years. During his time at TPN, Jon was the anchor of upper administration coverage with source-driven reporting, working collaboratively with staff members and editors. He managed and trained a team of up to 19 editors and 170+ staff members. Jon also combined expertise in web development and journalism to write and edit data-driven articles.
Jon has won a combined 15 national and state journalism awards, either for work done individually or as part of a team.
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- Hill District arts nonprofit celebrates renovation of historic Kaufmann Center (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 2022)
- Pittsburgh Regional Transit faces diverging ridership trends on bus, light rail (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 2022)
- Every vote is important, candidates tell rural Democrats (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 2022)
- 'Humanity' shined through in 9/11 response, Jill Biden says at United Flight 93 memorial (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 2022)
- Allegheny Valley district crucial in battle for control of Pa. state House (Pittsburgh Union Progress, November 2022)
- SEIU, progressives on verge of biggest win yet in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh Union Progress, May 2023)
- Pittsburgh region faces increasing rain, flood risks as planet warms (Pittsburgh Union Progress, July 2023)
- A ‘huge problem’: Thousands of city and URA properties stuck in limbo, off the market and tax rolls (Pittsburgh Union Progress, August 2023)