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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to cease all operations on May 3rd.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 6:58 am
Posted on 1/8/26 at 6:58 am
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This sucks. Yet another sign that print journalism is going the way of the Dodo.
The PG has been published in some form since 1786. It was the first publication west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Block Communications, which owns the Post-Gazette, has lost $350 Million over the last 20 years. They also just lost their arse in a writers' strike that just got resolved.
Sad day for Western/SW Pennsylvania and Yinzers everywhere .
This sucks. Yet another sign that print journalism is going the way of the Dodo.
The PG has been published in some form since 1786. It was the first publication west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Block Communications, which owns the Post-Gazette, has lost $350 Million over the last 20 years. They also just lost their arse in a writers' strike that just got resolved.
Sad day for Western/SW Pennsylvania and Yinzers everywhere .
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Around 1 p.m. on Wednesday, my phone started blowing up with calls, texts and emails.
In the few seconds my fingers hovered above the screen, I briefly wondered what kind of shocking news I was about to take in; by the way my device continued to beep and vibrate, I knew it had to be something big.
Was there an international scandal? Did the U.S. government declare war? Did someone die?
As it turned out, there was a death — of one of Pittsburgh’s legacy news organizations.
In a brief, four-paragraph press release, the owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a nearly 240-year-old institution, announced the news outlet would no longer exist — at all. May 3 was noted as the final date of publication for both digital and print editions.
Oh.
In their announcement, Block Communications Inc. and the Block family, which has owned the Post-Gazette since 1927, blamed the closure on ongoing financial losses.
“Over the past 20 years, Block Communications has lost more than $350 million in cash operating the Post-Gazette. Despite those efforts, the realities facing local journalism make continued cash losses at this scale no longer sustainable,” the statement said.
Just a few months earlier, unionized Post-Gazette workers had returned to the newsroom following an acrimonious three-year strike. Hours before the paper’s closure was announced, purportedly on a pre-recorded Zoom call to employees, Bloomberg Law reported the Post-Gazette’s publisher had failed to convince the U.S Supreme Court to halt a lower court order requiring Block Communications to make changes to its health insurance coverage for union workers.
This, apparently, was another trigger in the decision to shutter the Post-Gazette.
This post was edited on 1/8/26 at 6:59 am
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Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:00 am to Lexis Dad
I wish al.com would do the same. It is worthless and woke.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:01 am to Lexis Dad
The sad thing is people will have to get their "news" from social media and we all know that Abraham Lincoln warned about the perils of Facebook right after signing the Gettysburg Address that gave women the right to vote.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:02 am to SloaneRanger
Atlanta Journal Const. stopped printing on 12/31.
People like their biased articles and propaganda in more modern fashions and in quicker doses
People like their biased articles and propaganda in more modern fashions and in quicker doses
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:07 am to Drank
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People like their biased articles and propaganda in more modern fashions and in quicker doses
Saw the Advocate requesting donations at one point. What a joke.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:09 am to Drank
Yeah they are still doing everything they've done before just all online. Plus Cox Communications isn't underwater like Block
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:23 am to Lexis Dad
When I read this article yesterday, I saw the following and immediately thought of the O-T:
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Over the past 20 years, Block Communications has lost more than $350 million in cash operating the Post-Gazette.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:33 am to Lexis Dad
Times they are a changing. I kind of hate to see newspapers go out, but you can get all the latest news quicker online and way more options/opinions. When news went biased, it sealed their fate.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:35 am to SloaneRanger
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wish al.com would do the same. It is worthless and woke.
Preach it, brutha
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:35 am to Lexis Dad
I love reading a physical paper, but maybe if the “journalists” did their jobs vs letting23 year old You Tubers run circles around them, things could be different. Doubt it though.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:35 am to Lexis Dad
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This sucks. Yet another sign that print journalism is going the way of the Dodo.
Welcome to 2006
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:36 am to W2NOMO
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Saw the Advocate requesting donations at one point. What a joke
It's like seeing a haughty, arrogant businessman who lorded over people with his self-importance begging on the roadside for change, dirty, disheveled and decrepit.
And you don't even donate a dime, only disdain.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:36 am to SoFlaGuy
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I love reading a physical paper, but maybe if the “journalists” did their jobs vs letting23 year old You Tubers run circles around them, things could be different. Doubt it though.
Hard agree here.
The stuff on YouTube is just better, and typically costs way less to produce. All of the good journalists left a long time ago and are on their own.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:37 am to Lexis Dad
More protestors for Soros to hire.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:55 am to SoFlaGuy
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I love reading a physical paper
Same here.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:57 am to UptownJoeBrown
Great song by a great band.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 8:21 am to Lexis Dad
$350 million, why stop there?
Posted on 1/8/26 at 8:51 am to Lexis Dad
Sad but inevitable. First of many to go this route.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 8:58 am to fr33manator
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And you don't even donate a dime, only disdain.
"Donating" disdain is a beautifully cold & accurate description
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