The Aporia · Salena Zito

Articles

6

2026-09-12 – 2026-10-15

Claims per article

92

551 extracted in total

Hedged claims

4%

corpus average 9%

Typical length

8,532

characters

Writes for Washington Examiner.

Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

Politics

50%

Education

17%

Environment

17%

Sports

17%

Most-tagged topics

PITTSBURGHAmericanBucks CountyCMUCarnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie TechCoxey’s ArmyKentucky

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1 scored article; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages +0.04 (centre).

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.

2026-09-30 · Washington Examiner · Education

Ken Griffin’s $3 billion gift ties Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburgh roots to Miami ambitions

4 outlets covered this event

2026-10-15 · Washington Examiner · Politics

What Pittsburgh can teach the next House majority

no other outlet in the corpus covered this · centre

2026-10-10 · Washington Examiner · Politics

Take the Wilderness Road and you’ll find the Appalachian first lady who fooled Washington

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-10-07 · Washington Examiner · Politics

Steve Witkoff keeps the light on

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-10-05 · Washington Examiner · Environment

EPA’s Zeldin spotlights Bucks County’s farm-to-pantry network in Pennsylvania

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-09-12 · Washington Examiner · Sports

Steelers and faith: The foundation behind the grit of the gridiron

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-09-12 · Washington Examiner

Steelers and faith: The foundation behind the grit of the gridiron

🔮 Will Howard, who, along with Allar, is one of three backup quarterbacks to Steeler quarterback Aaron Rodgers, said faith’s role in his life is everything: “I’ve been really big on it this camp, and I just feel like I continue to be rooted in my faith.” assertive

2026-09-30 · Washington Examiner

Ken Griffin’s $3 billion gift ties Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburgh roots to Miami ambitions

🔮 Andrew Carnegie’s $1 million gift in 1900 helped create Carnegie Tech, a school where western Pennsylvanians could learn practical skills for an industrial age. assertive

2026-10-05 · Washington Examiner

EPA’s Zeldin spotlights Bucks County’s farm-to-pantry network in Pennsylvania

🔮 The goal, Zeldin said, is to make sure food “that would’ve otherwise been disposed of, sent to a landfill, is put to good use for children and families in need.” assertive

2026-10-07 · Washington Examiner

Steve Witkoff keeps the light on

🔮 Over the next hour, they would do it several more times: in the middle of a sentence, in the middle of a memory, whenever one of them got to the part neither could get through. assertive

2026-10-10 · Washington Examiner

Take the Wilderness Road and you’ll find the Appalachian first lady who fooled Washington

🔮 “This would be our way of giving back to a community that we love,” she said. assertive

2026-10-15 · Washington Examiner

What Pittsburgh can teach the next House majority

🔮 Seven months later, the country did something the marchers might not have predicted. assertive

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