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.