{"id":80705,"date":"2026-01-07T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/80705\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:12:10","slug":"block-family-announces-pittsburgh-post-gazette-is-closing-in-may-after-240-years-butler-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/80705\/","title":{"rendered":"Block Family announces Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is closing in May after 240 years \u2013 Butler Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767827530_277_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-uuid=\"b17fbac5-69eb-527e-8833-b85b4a478530\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A sign on a building marks the offices of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2019 in Pittsburgh. Block Communications, which owns the newspaper, announced Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026, it is closing the newspaper in May.<\/p>\n<p>\n                  Keith Srakocic\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will distribute its last issue May 3 and close after 240 years of covering news in the Steel City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Block Communications, which owns the Post-Gazette and Toledo (Ohio) Blade, announced Wednesday, Jan. 7, it is closing the newspaper, citing mounting financial losses it said eclipsed $350 million in the last 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cContinued cash losses at this scale (is) no longer sustainable,\u201d according to a statement on the Post-Gazette\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The announcement came mere hours after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to overturn a lower court order in November requiring the company to return to the bargaining table after a three-year strike and negotiate a new contract with its union. The court decision required the Block family, which owns the paper, and union to operate under a 2014 labor contract, which had expired and later resulted in the newsroom strike, until a new collectively bargained contract could be signed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The decision also comes a week after the Pittsburgh City Paper closed its doors after 34 years. The City Paper is also owned by Block Communications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Block family has owned the Post-Gazette since 1927, when Paul Block made a deal with William Randolph Hearst that led to Block getting the Pittsburgh Post and the Gazette Times to combine them into a morning paper called the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Pittsburgh Gazette, a predecessor, first published in 1786.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sign on a building marks the offices of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2019 in Pittsburgh. 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