Barbara White Stack is a former Post-Gazette reporter, assistant city editor and editorial writer. Stack worked for the Post-Gazette for 27 years before leaving in December, 2006.

Stack is a 2006 Poynter Ethics Fellow and received a Journalism Fellowship in Child and Family Policy in 2000 through the University of Maryland. Her journalism fellowship work led to a successful challenge by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to closed dependency hearings in juvenile court in Pennsylvania. Those hearings now are presumptively open to the press and public.

Stack currently works as blog editor for the United Steelworkers.

Blog Entries by Barbara White Stack

Campaign Journal: One McCain Vote, Then Two Obama Votes

Posted November 2, 2008 | 09:25 PM (EST)


Barbara White Stack is a Grassroots Correspondent for HuffPost's OffTheBus.

My last day of door-knocking for Barack Obama began and ended with white-haired ladies in ranch houses.

Today opened up with the pundits assertions that older McCain supporters are switching to Barack Obama after receiving their third quarter statements showing...

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Campaign Journal: Pennsylvania Voters Reticent...Sort Of

2 Comments | Posted October 27, 2008 | 01:36 PM (EST)


Barbara White Stack is an OffTheBus grassroots correspondent. Each week she contributes a campaign journal documenting her life out on the trail.

The difference between a robo-caller and a phone-banker is the listening.

The robo machine loses effectiveness in the persuasion game because it can't listen. It just...

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Hillary Clinton Rallies Senior Citizens And Union Members For Obama In Pittsburgh

19 Comments | Posted October 25, 2008 | 04:42 PM (EST)


Pittsburgh, PA--At an event billed "Hot Dogs with Hillary," it was inevitable that an animal reference would pop up, after all, this campaign has been hounded by pit bulls and pigs plastered with lip stick.

Hillary Clinton obliged the crowd of 1,000 senior citizens and union members in Pittsburgh on...

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Campaign Journal: Canvassing in Western Pennsylvania

Posted October 20, 2008 | 04:08 PM (EST)


Barbara White Stack is an OffTheBus grassroots correspondent. Each week she contributes a campaign journal documenting her life out on the trail.

This weekend, I spent the most time chatting with people who were not on my list.

The list, compiled by the AFL-CIO, is union members...

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Campaign Journal: Meeting the Neighbors

1 Comments | Posted October 17, 2008 | 12:24 PM (EST)


Barbara White Stack is an OffTheBus grassroots correspondent. Each week she contributes a campaign journal documenting her life out on the trail.

The AFL-CIO gave me a list of union members in my suburban, very-Republican home town to canvass for Barack Obama, and there, in the first...

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