{"id":81013,"date":"2026-01-08T06:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81013\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:08:26","slug":"pittsburgh-post-gazette-one-of-oldest-news-outlets-in-u-s-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, One Of Oldest News Outlets In U.S., To Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-post-gazette\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pittsburgh-post-gazette\" data-tag=\"pittsburgh-post-gazette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a> will end its operations on May 3, its owners said on Wednesday, marking the end of one of the oldest news publications in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/block-communications\/\" id=\"auto-tag_block-communications\" data-tag=\"block-communications\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Block Communications<\/a> and the Block Family are saddened to announce that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette plans to publish its final edition and cease operations on May 3, 2026,\u201d the company\u2019s owners said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBlock Communications cited more than $350 million in losses operating the publication over the past two decades. The company said that the \u201crealities facing local journalism make continued cash losses at this scale no longer sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThey also cited a recent court decision that would require the publication to operate under a 2014 labor contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Post-Gazette dates to 1786, when John Scull and Joseph Hall published the first newspaper west of the Allegheny Mountains, per the publications history timeline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe city\u2019s other major publication, the Tribune-Review, went all digital in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will end its operations on May 3, its owners said on Wednesday, marking the end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[41015,41022,73,75,74,25828],"class_list":{"0":"post-81013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-block-communications","9":"tag-electionline","10":"tag-pittsburgh","11":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","12":"tag-pittsburgh-news","13":"tag-pittsburgh-post-gazette"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81013","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=81013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}