Toledo Blade Is For Sale, And Ownership Says It Will Shut Down If No Buyer Is Found

Possible final edition of Blade announced; company explores sale

Block Communications has announced its intention to explore a sale of The Blade’s assets, which, if unsuccessful, will result in the final edition of the newspaper being published Dec. 31.

Toledo Blade Is For Sale, And Ownership Says It Will Shut Down If No Buyer Is Found

The owners of The Blade are looking to sell the Toledo newspaper and said Tuesday that if they’re unsuccessful, both the print and digital versions of the paper will stop publishing at the end of the year. Block Communications similarly cited financial losses when it announced in January that it would cease publishing another newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. But about two weeks before it was to shut down in May, Block announced that the n…