Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Announces It Will Cease Operations

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Source: New York Times

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Announces It Will Cease Operations

The family-owned company that operates the newspaper cited mounting losses and labor constraints. A final edition is expected on Sunday, May 3.

Jan. 7, 2026 Updated 3:10 p.m. ET


The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette building in Pittsburgh. The newspaper’s owner said it will cease publication in May.Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times

The family-owned company that operates The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said on Wednesday that the newspaper would cease publication on Sunday, May 3, signaling the end of a newspaper whose origins date to 1786. ... The company, Block Communications Inc., said it had lost more than $350 million over the past 20 years while publishing the newspaper. In a statement, it said the financial pressures facing local journalism had made “continued cash losses at this scale no longer sustainable.”

The company cited recent court decisions that would require The Post-Gazette to operate under the terms of a 2014 labor contract, which it described as imposing “outdated and inflexible operational practices.”

The Post-Gazette’s closure will not affect The Toledo Blade in Ohio, which is also owned by Block Communications. The company is based in Toledo.

In a statement, the Block family said it regretted how the loss of the newspaper would affect the communities it has served. The family said it was “proud of the service The Post-Gazette has provided to Pittsburgh for nearly a century.”

This is a developing story.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/business/media/pittsburgh-post-gazette-closing.html

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Ha tip, Joe.My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2026/01/pittsburghs-major-newspaper-to-shutter-in-may/

[FakeNoose]

1. This is shocking news for southwest Pennsylvania

I was hoping they'd find a buyer and keep it going.

[Mysterian]

6. Indeed, it is shocking news

I grew up in the Pittsburgh area and losing the Post-Gazette is a huge disaster. The only other newspaper is the right-wing Tribune-Review.

[Evolve Dammit]

2. consolidation of the media from every outlet and form. Autocracy and oligarchy is here.

[snot]

3. The importance of these losses in local, independently-owned media cos.

can't be overstated. Very sorry to see this.

[The Grand Illuminist]

4. Then there is the Tribune Review..

Unfortunately

[Alice B.]

5. And the Pittsburgh City Paper, too...

That came out over the holidays.
Gutted over that, too.

[question everything]

7. I wish that all the ones who subscribe to streaming services, or something, would divert some

to support local journalism. The Minnesota StarTribune does not have much thought no doubt will have plenty tomorrow. And is expensive and still asks for donations. But we subscribe to the print issue to support local journalism. In the past weeks, though, they visited the daycare places and found them all operating, that goon with his camera notwithstanding.

[FakeNoose]

8. Agreed

I'm a longtime subscriber to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, despite their rah-rah MAGA tone.

I can remember the days when the PPG editorials were reliably pro-Dem, pro-Union, and pro-liberal but that was long ago. The paper endorsed Chump twice, and back in 2016 they refused to endorse Hillary Clinton but didn't go the full way and endorse Chump the first time. Long story short, the ultra-conservative owners of this newspaper have pissed off so many subscribers in the past 10 years that there isn't enough of a subscriber base anymore.

Funny thing though, the few Republicans living in this area seem to think of the PPG as being a "liberal" newspaper, but we liberals all know better. The main value of the newspaper has become news stories about the Steelers, Pirates and Penguins, not much else.