Post-Gazette to publish final edition and cease operations on May 3
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) The owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced Wednesday that the newspaper will cease publication Sunday, May 3.
Over the past 20 years, Block Communications Inc. has lost more than $350 million in cash operating the newspaper. Despite those efforts, the company said that the realities facing local journalism make “continued cash losses at this scale no longer sustainable.”
Recent court decisions would require the Post-Gazette to operate under a 2014 labor contract that imposes “outdated and inflexible operational practices,” making continued publication impossible.
https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2026/01/07/pittsburgh-post-gazette-final-edition/stories/202601070073
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The Block family owners have done everything they can to alienate the Democratic-liberal-progressive readers in the Pittsburgh area. So many readers have cancelled subscriptions because of the Block family's rightwing and conservative lean in the past 10 years. I guess the chickens have finally come home to roost.
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