Posted on 11/30/2016 11:50:39 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
he Pittsburgh Tribune-Review newspaper printed its last edition and has laid off 106 workers as it transitions into an online-only publication.
Wednesday's edition ends a 24-year run that began when the late billionaire publisher Richard Mellon Scaife established the paper to compete with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which remains the only printed daily newspaper in the city.
Trib Total Media will continue publishing two daily print editions for the suburbs, the Greensburg-based Westmoreland edition of the Tribune-Review and the Tarentum-based Valley News Dispatch edition, as well as 11 of the other 14 weeklies owned by Trib Total Media.
The company announced in September that it was discontinuing the Pittsburgh daily, which had a daily circulation of just under 33,500 and 40,000 on Sundays.
Granted 24 yrs. is not a long life for a newspaper. Scaife took it city-wide to fill the void as the Pittsburgh Press ceased publication. It was the more conservative of the two dailies here.
Scaife died two years ago. He had set up a trust to finance the paper in perpetuity. But his children apparently did not wish to flush the estate down a rathole. They went to court, and a judge froze the assets of the trust while the case moved forward.
The Trib became a dead man walking at that point.
(H/T Doctor Raoul)
Our only other daily paper is the Post-Gazette, a typical liberal rag.
I do wish it were the P-G assuming room temperature and not the Trib. I used to pick up a P-G on Sundays because a family member wanted the coupons. Actually trying to read it would make my head explode.
Even though it was a relatively conservative paper, maybe this is for the best.
Trusts and foundations are notorious for being taken over by Leftists, even when the founder was conservative.
There was one wealthy conservative who recognized this - I believe it was John M. Olin. He set up his foundation to expire a few years after his death. He figured that a lot of good could be accomplished by his foundation in those few years; but that if it stayed in existence, it would trend Leftward and start to do abominable things.
I am curious....
every big city newspaper market I can think of that has an effective one-paper monopoly....the rags are all super-leftwing, commie type propaganda sheets
BUT I do NOt know most of the big city newspapers in USA...
are there any big city monopoly newspapers with visibly conservative (or balanced pretty moderate) political slants?
just curious if the evil of monopoly newspaper markets is ALSO a monopoly leftwing propaganda machine, too>
and if so, why? if there are 100 monopoly news markets and 80 or 90 of them are dominated by leftwing socialist commie rags.............................why is this? maybe more moderate or convervative people should try to launch a few more news outlets?????? papers, tv networks, or?
if there’s a rough spectrum of polics in big city news markets, then I am happier of course...
Whoever is running the Greensburg Tribune-Review (the progenitor of the now-defunct Pittsburgh edition), is hellbent on killing it, too.
On December 1, not only did the Pittsburgh Trib cease production, but the Greensburg Trib got pared down significantly... it’s barely worth reading. Of course, some of its more rural subscribers wouldn’t know that, since delivery to their homes (and in some cases, even to stores in town) ceased earlier in the year.
If it sees two more years, I’ll be shocked.
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