At a time when most news organizations are cutting staff, Payday Report is one of the few news organizations that is actually expanding. We are expanding because our work and coverage have steadily grown. Our COVID Strike Tracking Map and coverage has won wide praise from NPR’s On the

Payday Report has learned that dozens of reporters employed by the Philadelphia Inquirer are going out on a “sick-out” strike tomorrow over the papers’ coverage of race.  “As journalists of color, we do more than report on the community — we are the community. We do our best to give

PITTSBURGH, PA. – After having the pro-fracking unions spend more than $150,000 against her, Summer Lee, who was the first African-American woman ever elected to the State House from Western PA, soundly defeated them in their first re-election bid. However, Lee, who had been helping to lead

PITTSBURGH, PA. – Late on Saturday afternoon, outside of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ hockey stadium, a crowd of left-leaning protesters brutally beat Ian Smith, a white KDKA TV cameraman, within fear of his life.  Multiple activists, both black and white, asked Smith to stop filming people of color engaging in vandalizing