Erin Yudt was a reporter with Pittsburgh Media Partnership Newsroom. She most recently was a multimedia content producer and digital reporter at WKBN in Youngstown, Ohio, and is a graduate of Point Park University, where she served as editor-in-chief of the student-run newspaper The Globe and an apprentice for the News Service. She has won two Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence awards for breaking news reporting and in-depth reporting. Erin has interned at the Sharon Herald, Trib Total Media, PublicSource and 90.5 WESA. She also participated in the Fulbright Berlin Capital Program in 2024. In her free time, Erin enjoys reading novels, traveling, spending time with family and friends, and searching for the world’s best cookies and cream ice cream. ‍ Erin worked for the newsroom from July 2025 to May 2026, and her future plans include attending graduate school.