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  • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Announces It Will Cease Operations

    01/08/2026 7:13:52 AM PST · by Red Badger · 25 replies
    New York Times ^ | January 07, 2026 | Mark Walker and Emmett Lindner
    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...