Pittsburgh Star was established in September 2002 to provide up-to-the minute local news, together with national and international headlines as part of a global network pooling resources to deliver a quality service to member sites. Each online publication has been modeled on a newspaper format for familiar readability by users. The locations forming part of the network were selected on the basis of demand for news for that location. Pittsburgh Star and the other sites are administered by Midwest Radio Network from offices in Sydney, Australia.