Spotlight PA

Spotlight PA State College

Penn State University had operated for years without scrutiny from investigative reporters. That changed with the launch of Spotlight PA’s State College bureau in July 2022, a four-person bureau that covers 14 rural counties and the state’s most influential institution of higher learning. Since then, Spotlight PA has successfully fought to release court records of a sexual extortion case that Penn State had tried to keep sealed, revealed how the Board of Trustees executive committee likely violated the state’s open meetings laws, and broke national news that the university scrapped a key commitment to combat racism and bias following protests in the summer of 2022.