Just the jist:

Pipeline is your source for all Marcellus Shale news.

Powered by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pipeline is an online guide to news of the day and a resource for community members who are just hearing about Marcellus Shale drilling for the first time.

Pipeline is part of a national effort to tell community news in a new way.

At the Post-Gazette, this is the year of the Marcellus Shale.

Come to www.post-gazette.com/pipeline and help us tell the story

Some Pipeline features:

- Interactive Map of permit leases in western Pennsylvania counties

- IM box to talk Shale real-time

- Timeline that takes you through the major events of the Shale boom

- Partner content from FracTracker.org and Burgh Diaspora

- Live calendar listing Shale-related events and meetings in your community

Want to know more?

The Post-Gazette is one of four news outlets to receive a grant as part of the Networked Journalism Project, an initiative led by the J-Lab journalism institute at American University. J-Lab grant recipients partner newspaper newsrooms with the bloggers and community members who know their region the best.

We’re looking for citizen journalists and community members who want to chronicle this phenomenon with us. We can share links to one another’s content, help engage our neighbors and even partner on stories later in the year. We can point readers to your blog, share your photos and multimedia— or collaborate in a new way that hasn’t been done before.

Contact Pipeline @

E-mail: Pipeline editor Erich Schwartzel at eschwartzel@post-gazette.com

Phone: 412-263-1455