Launched in March of 2006, Pop City is a weekly e-magazine and Web site showcasing the positive and sustained transformation of the Pittsburgh region. As of March 2008, more than 18,000 subscribe to Pop City and monthly readership tops 151,000. According to Google Research, in the 4th quarter of 2007, Pop City is read in 7003 cities and 163 countries around the world.
Pop City connects you--and the rest of the world--with the latest growth and investment about Pittsburgh and its neighborhoods and highlights the best of arts and cultural events weekly. Featuring original stories and photography, Pop City will have you seeing Pittsburgh differently.
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Publisher & Editor:
An award-winning writer
and former advertising agency exec, Trace started as founding editor of Pop City and was named publisher in November, '07. Former editor of AIA Pittsburgh's Columns magazine, she has written about topics
ranging from architecture and urban design to health and travel. A two-time boomeranger, she returned from Los Angeles where she worked in national media sales with post-grad studies in writing and photography at UCLA. She was born in Chicago and has lived in the south, southwest and northeast, and chose Pittsburgh to roost. Her passions (besides her family and Pop City of course) include music, reading, photography, cycling and travel, especially as a Global Village trip leader for Habitat for Humanity. Her latest addiction-- sad to say--is Guitar Hero 3. She blames her sons for that. Like other transplants to this city, she is charmed by the many diverse and eclectic offerings of Pittsburgh--and welcomes the opportunity to showcase them through Pop City.
Development News Editor:
Jennifer Baron
Jennifer, born in Neptune, NJ, was named after a Donovan tune. She worked as education director at the Mattress Factory for five years where she developed contemporary art programs and publications for schools and teachers, youth and families and the public. While living in NYC for ten years, Jennifer worked at the Brooklyn Museum, Dahesh Museum, Museums Magazine and ARTime. She is a founding member of The Ladybug Transistor, with whom she recorded numerous albums and toured the U.S. and Europe, and she has played in and recorded with Pittsburgh's New Alcindors. A fellow at Carnegie Mellon's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Jennifer is working on a book with the Pittsburgh Signs Project, which received a Pittsburgh 250 Community Connections grant. An avid crafter, Jennifer helps run Pittsburgh's premiere indie craft fair, Handmade Arcade and writes a column on historic signs for Western Pennsylvania History magazine. Jennifer loves the topography, trees and tamburitza music of Pittsburgh.
Innovation News Editor:
Deb arrives at Pop City after two decades of work as an award-winning writer and editor. Her assorted past includes jobs as a newspaper reporter and editor, magazine writer, and writer/editor for Time-Life Books in Alexandria, Virginia. At TLB, she researched and wrote for the science series, Library of Curious and Unusual Facts, and Native American Indians. She also was the editor of street magazine,The South Street Star, in Philadelphia and freelanced for the Washington Post, Philadelphia newspapers, a California health care company, and the Bureau of National Affairs in Washington, D.C. Having lived in several U.S. cities, she has come to truly appreciate the quality of life and innovative spirit Pittsburgh offers. She is also a huge fan of Pittsburgh teams, except, of course, when they are playing against her Philadelphia hometown.
Photographer:
Brian is a freelance photographer from London, England, where he gained his MFA in photography from the Royal College of Art. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Guardian newspaper, BBC Focus on Africa, and the British Journal of Photography. Brian's work has been exhibited widely, including at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England. He earned a Ph.D. in Art History at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Brian, his wife, and their four children moved to Pittsburgh in late 2006.
A sophomore at Mt. Lebanon High School, Andrew proofs the copy
and hyperlinks the features in Pop City. He has a passion for biology,
art and music and plays both the guitar and bass along with the
digeridoo.
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