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that required The Post-Gazette to operate under the terms of a 2014-17 labor contract, which it described as imposing “outdated and inflexible operational practices.”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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Wow—that’s big.
The Pittsburgh City Paper, a much smaller one, just closed up this month.
IIRC, there will be nothing left in the Pittsburgh area except that (mostly) right-leaning Tribune Review from Greensburg.
I just got a jury summons. Should I report there wearing a MAGA hat?
Damn shame. This used to be the leftist paper of the Pittsburgh region while the Tribune Review practiced independent journalism. Since Richard Mellon Scaife passed, the roles seem to have reversed.
Good local (Westmoreland County) coverage and coupons are mostly what keeps them afloat for now.
Oh noes! Another ‘truth’ outlet bites the dust.
What did the editorial board say about COVID-19 and its vaccines? What did it say about Donald Trump over the years? Did it speak out consistently against Biden, Harris, 0bama, and Clinton like it did Bush and Trump? Was it remotely “balanced and fair?”
If not, and if it could not ever learn, it should go under.
Goodbye!
>>The company, Block Communications, said it had lost more than $350 million over the past 20 years while publishing the newspaper.
If a company is posting $17.5 million a year in losses, WHY would they allow that bleed to continue for two decades? It seems like fiduciary mismanagement of stockholder value.
The only good thing about the P-G was the Sunday coupons.
As I recall, they actually broke from tradition and endorse Trump in 2024.
I just looked it up and the Trump endorsement was in 2020.
Amazing, nonetheless.
All print papers are under pressure from a new generation never using them. With the rise of the internet in the 1990s back then it was foreseen that this day would arrive eventually. It didn’t happen overnight but watch for more of this to happen to other papers.
We have lost our only hometown newspaper, now only available on-line by subscription, and it’s always a day late with the news.
People want news immediately and live if possible. Dead Tree Media was doomed from the day of the invention of the desktop computer.........
Wasn’t it ‘family owned’?...............
“All print papers are under pressure from a new generation never using them.”
Plus, the new generation can’t read.
Probably hoping that Congress would bail out the newspaper industry, which has thankfully not happened but was rumored at various times over the past 20 years or so.
Almost all local newspapers have been taken over by the likes of George Soros and turned into propaganda outlets.
They are all dying
The only downside is that any/all reporting on local and state news is dying with them.
I suppose that too helps the globalists/neo-marxists of the American Left. No one knows or cares what’s happening locally.
Hopefully the next libtard newspaper to go is the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Probably because USAID got shut down and they lost funding.
Trump has been turning off the NGO funding spigot.
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