Posted on 01/08/2026 7:13:52 AM PST by Red Badger
The family-owned company that operates The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said on Wednesday that the newspaper will cease publication on Sunday, May 3, signaling the end of a publication whose origins date to 1786.
The company, Block Communications, said it had lost more than $350 million over the past 20 years while publishing the newspaper. In a statement, it said the financial pressures facing local journalism had made “continued cash losses at this scale no longer sustainable.”
The company cited recent court decisions that required The Post-Gazette to operate under the terms of a 2014-17 labor contract, which it described as imposing “outdated and inflexible operational practices.”
The Post-Gazette has a paid circulation of roughly 83,000 and publishes news online daily and in print editions twice each week. It has won multiple Pulitzer Prizes, including in 2019 for its coverage of a shooting that killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue.
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I’m over 80. Won’t miss the Post Gazette, won’t miss it at all.
Hmmm...
A question that might be asked is: “How many Pittsburgh residents can read English?”
All that paper that won’t be thrown away. Great news. The eco-wokies should be dancing as dinosaur media stops raping trees and mking throwaway paper products.
Privately held—family business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Communications
How do you become a billionaire?
Take two billion and operate a newspaper.
Lol.
Maybe if they switched to Spanish language news that would help.
Philly Bulletin bump
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