The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced Tuesday morning that it was acquired by a nonprofit and will no longer shut down in May.<\/p>\n
Block Communications, Inc., which has owned the Post-Gazette for nearly a century, is selling<\/a> the paper to the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism<\/a>, publisher of the Baltimore Banner.<\/a> The sale is effective May 4, the day after the Post-Gazette was scheduled to cease publication.<\/p>\n Near the start of 2026, Block Communications announced they were shutting down two of their subsidiaries \u2014 the Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh City Paper \u2014 following a national trend<\/a> of newspaper closures.<\/p>\n In response, members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, local community representatives and labor leaders announced<\/a> the creation of the Pittsburgh Alliance for People-Empowered Reporting<\/a>, a coalition with the goals of researching media alternatives to the Post-Gazette and highlighting underrepresented local communities.<\/p>\n On March 19, Pittsburgh City Paper announced<\/a> that it had been purchased by LocalMatters<\/a>, a new nonprofit dedicated to ensuring the long-term sustainability of local newspapers, and would resume publication after shutting down in December.<\/p>\n