Pittsburgh Post-Gazette To Shut Down, Ending One Of Oldest News Publications In U.S.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will extremity its operations connected May 3, its owners said connected Wednesday, marking nan extremity of 1 of nan oldest news publications successful nan United States.

“Block Communications and nan Block Family are saddened to denote that nan Pittsburgh Post-Gazette plans to people its last version and cease operations connected May 3, 2026,” nan company’s owners said successful a statement.

Block Communications cited much than $350 cardinal successful losses operating nan publication complete nan past 2 decades. The institution said that nan “realities facing section publicity make continued rate losses astatine this standard nary longer sustainable.”

They besides cited a caller tribunal decisions that would require nan publication to run nether a 2014 labour contract.

The Post-Gazette dates to 1786, erstwhile John Scull and Joseph Hall published nan first newspaper westbound of nan Allegheny Mountains, per nan publications history timeline.

The city’s different awesome publication, nan Tribune-Review, went each integer successful 2016.

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