Elaine Effort, former KQV news reporter, dies

Elaine Effort, former KQV news reporter, dies

Retired radio journalist Elaine Effort holds an award she won at the 2020 Alpha Phi Alpha Black & Gold Community Awards Gala. Effort was a recipient in the “Love For All Mankind” category.

Elaine Effort, an award-winning pioneer of Pittsburgh journalism and a longtime broadcaster on news station KQV Radio, unexpectedly died Wednesday, according to the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation, of which she was a founding member.

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