Lauri Apple, “Steffi Domike, Hip Homestead Historian,” In Pittsburgh, August 11-18, 1999, pp. 16:

“When InPgh caught up with Steffi Domike in autumn of 1988, she was busy propagating ‘Industrial Strength Television’ to the masses. As producer of Labor’s Corner, a half-hour program on WQEX that discusses labor from a worker’s perspective, she won TV airtime for striking janitors, labor historians and local farmers... ’ Labor’s not a sexy kind of subject,’ Domike told reporter Margie Romero. ‘But so much of television has nothing to do with real life… TV should reflect our lives, not just dominate them.’”

Curt Schieber, “Guerillas in Pittsburgh’s Midst,” Dialogue, November-December, 1998, page 36:

“The Former Homestead Works … is the site of a painful episode in the steel industry’s history. In the summer of 1892, at the river’s edge, striking workers defeated 300 Pinkerton detectives hired by the Carnegie Steel Co. to impose a lockout at the mill.… The bloody rebellion is documented in the powerful 1993 film The River Ran Red produced by Pittsburgh artist Steffi Domike. The film detailed the social dynamics, labor conditions and strike that led to Carnegie’s clamp down, and its aftermath. ”

"When the River Ran Red," New York Times, Sunday, September 5, 1993

"Nineteenth-century 'preventive labor relations' is the focus of The River Ran Red, a documentary on the strike at the Carnegie works in Homestead, Pa., 101 years ago. The film's producers, Steffi Domike and Nicole Fauteux, use techniques familiar from Ken Burns's 'The Civil War' to dramatize one of the turning points in American Labor history."

"Artists Record the Death of the Mill's Way of Life," New York Times, July 1, 1985:

"The women in the videotape (Women of Steel) had small battles at their mills to achieve gains in income as well as respect from some of their male co-workers. But their victories turned into bitter defeats as they lost their jobs. ... 'Very few films about Pittsburgh are able to articulate the indigenous point of view,' said Margaret Strosser ... "But we live here and experience the complicated issues from day to day.'"