{"id":80940,"date":"2026-01-08T04:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/80940\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T04:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:29:16","slug":"pittsburgh-post-gazette-shuttering-after-240-years-owners-announce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/80940\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette shuttering after 240 years, owners announce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\u2019s owners announced Wednesday the paper will be shutting down in a few months, citing financial losses.<\/p>\n<p>Block Communications Inc. announced it will cease publication on May 3. <\/p>\n<p>The paper is printed on Thursdays and Sundays and says on its website the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">average paid circulation<\/a>\u00a0is 83,000.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38125429\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/people-walk-past-building-offices-118452934.jpg\" alt=\"The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette office building.\" class=\"wp-image-38125429\"  \/>The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\u2019s owners announced that they will be shutting down the paper on May 3 due to financial losses. AP<\/p>\n<p>A couple dozen union members returned to work at the Post-Gazette in November after a three-year strike.<\/p>\n<p>More than five years ago, the newspaper declared it had reached a bargaining impasse with the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh and unilaterally imposed terms and conditions of employment on those workers. <\/p>\n<p>The paper was later found to have bargained in bad faith by making offers that were not intended to help reach a deal and by declaring an impasse prematurely.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement that Block was shutting it down came on the same day the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/search.aspx?filename=\/docket\/docketfiles\/html\/public\/25a725.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">U.S. Supreme Court declined<\/a>\u00a0the PG Publishing Co. Inc.\u2019s emergency appeal to halt a National Labor Relations Board order that forced it to abide by health care coverage policies in an expired union contract.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Goldstein, president of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, said the paper\u2019s journalists have a long history of award-winning work.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50588235;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38125428\" width=\"888\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/us-open-week-view-miscellaneous-118473770.jpg\" alt=\"A man at a diner reads a newspaper with a &quot;The U.S. Open&quot; headline, with pancakes, coffee, and juice on the table.\" class=\"wp-image-38125428\"  \/>Employees were notified of the company\u2019s decision on a Zoom video call. Sports Illustrated via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of simply following the law, the owners chose to punish local journalists and the city of Pittsburgh,\u201d Goldstein said. <\/p>\n<p>The union said employees were notified in a video on Zoom in which company officials did not speak live.<\/p>\n<p>The Post-Gazette said Block Communications has lost hundreds of millions of dollars over two decades in operating the paper, and the company said it deemed \u201ccontinued cash losses at this scale no longer sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Block family said in a statement it was \u201cproud of the service the Post-Gazette has provided to Pittsburgh for nearly a century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A phone message seeking comment was left Wednesday at Block Communications headquarters in Toledo, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The paper traces its roots to 1786, when the Pittsburgh Gazette began as a four-page weekly, and became a leading advocate for the abolition of slavery in the 19th century. <\/p>\n<p>It went through a series of mastheads and owners before 1927, when Paul Block obtained the paper and named it the Post-Gazette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\u2019s owners announced Wednesday the paper will be shutting down in a few months, citing financial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21575,2341,40997,28,73,75,74,5018],"class_list":{"0":"post-80940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-journalism","9":"tag-media","10":"tag-newspapers","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","14":"tag-pittsburgh-news","15":"tag-supreme-court"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80940","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=80940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}