{"id":165539,"date":"2026-04-14T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165539\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:24:08","slug":"pittsburgh-post-gazette-announces-it-has-found-a-buyer-to-keep-the-newspaper-open-ap-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165539\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open | Ap-business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Less than a month before it was due to shut down, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said Tuesday it had found a buyer that would keep the troubled newspaper open.<\/p>\n<p>The Post-Gazette dates its ancestry to 1786, the first newspaper to open west of the Allegheny Mountains, and its closure would have left Pittsburgh as the nation\u2019s largest community without a city-based paper.<\/p>\n<p>Its owners, Block Communications, said the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, which publishes the digital Baltimore Banner, had agreed to buy its assets. Financial terms were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The Post-Gazette said the new owners would continue to print the newspaper on two days, Thursday and Sunday, and would operate a website on the other days.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper had been due to close on May 3.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Less than a month before it was due to shut down, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,60,1681,38,51941,74582,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-165539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-media-and-entertainment-industry","15":"tag-pittsburgh-newspaper-closure-sale-nonprofit","16":"tag-u-s-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}