bias = layoffs... Dr. Raoul
Posted on 06/29/2018 7:26:38 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has announced it will stop publishing the newspaper two days a week.
According to a letter sent to the newspaper's employee union Wednesday, the newspaper is shrinking its printing schedule as part of a plan to become a digital news organization.
The change will go into effect Aug. 25. Officials have not specified which days will be cut.
Senior Human Resources Manager Linda Guest says in the letter, “the nature of our operations will change substantially.”
The owners of the 232-year-old paper, Ohio-based Block Communications, have not responded to requests for comment.
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Bye! we won’t miss you! You bastards went hard left, so damn the hell out of you, and may you burn in hell.
The local, Tucson Red star, has shrunk to the size of a comic book and is just about as informative.
I’ve not read a newspaper in years. Why should I? I can get news and weather with a click or two on my desktop or on my phone.
Print media is dying.
The Ministry of Propaganda is going out of business in slow motion.
The size of the newspaper pages has shrunk, as well as the number of pages in the paper. Even the Sunday paper is on the thinner side nowadays compared to years ago.
PG has been on a slow death like all newspapers for a while...
its probably exacerbated by the fact that Richard Mellon Scaife owns the competing paper in the region and views it as a pet project and has been pumping money into it without care of how much it loses for decades now as well.
PG has no change to compete because the Tribune-Review doesn’t need to make money.
Apparently you have been away from the Pittsburgh newspaper scene for awhile.
Dick Scaife died four years ago. He had established a trust to keep the Trib going, but his children went to court because they did not want to throw that money down a rathole. They convinced a judge to freeze the assets of the trust, and the Trib’s cash reserve dried-up.
They quit publishing any kind of printed edition last Fall, and are a shell of their former self.
When your paper is no different than the free city tabloid that you find in area restaurants, why pay?
What new owners? They are owned by the Block family that publishes the Toledo Blade. They’ve owned the PG for decades.
I did not know they had a new editor.
Likely explains why uber-Lefty cartoonist Rob Rogers
got the heave-ho.
#3 The newspapers headlines: BAM! WHACK! WHAM! BOFO!
The people with birds may be slightly worried.
Was at my mechanic getting an oil chg and some other things and sat there with his dad, and scanned through the “comics”. I never get the paper.
I asked him “when did all of the comics stop being funny?”
None were funny.
Love it! The lousy leftist Salt Lake Tribune recently had significant layoffs.
bias = layoffs... Dr. Raoul
Most of the money Block Communications makes comes from their cable companies and the TV stations they own. The three papers are dying a slow death. I thought the Pittsburgh property was working a JOA with another Pittsburgh paper.
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