Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Announces It Will Cease Operations [View all]
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would require The Post-Gazette to operate under the terms of a 2014 labor contract, which it described as imposing “outdated and inflexible operational practices.”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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