US EditionPittsburgh Post-Gazette to Cease Operations After Nearly 240 Years in Print
Block Communications will end operations after losing over $350 million in 20 years and facing court-mandated outdated labor contracts, impacting local journalism sustainability.
- The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a newspaper dating back to 1786, will cease operations on May 3 after nearly 240 years in print.
- The decision comes after the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Post-Gazette's request to stay a court order requiring the reinstatement of a contractual health care plan it illegally tore up in 2020.
- Block Communications, the owner, cited over $350 million in losses operating the publication over the past two decades as the reason for the closure.
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Post-Gazette parent company says the paper will end publication in May
The Post-Gazette offices on North Shore Drive in Pittsburgh (Photo by Ian Karbal/Pennsylvania Capital-Star)The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper serving the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, is set to shut down on May 3, according to its owners. The move will impact the paper’s print and digital content. The paper’s parent company, Block Communication Inc., said in a press release that the decision to shutter the outlet w…
Vulture Capitalists Kill Two Papers And Bust A Union
Block Communications, Inc. recently announced that they are shuttering the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. They claim to have lost $350 million over the last 20 years. But that is not why they are closing down the newspaper. BCI has chosen to kill the newspaper rather than follow court orders to honor the union contract that they signed and to negotiate a new one. And they told their employees in the most shitty way possible: Employees were told the p…
Post-Gazette To Shut Down - ButlerRadio.com - Butler, PA
The city of Pittsburgh will lose another newspaper in a few months. A couple of days after announcing that the Pittsburgh City Paper would be shutting down, Block Communications announced that the Pittsburgh Post Gazette will also cease operations. Officials with Block say the paper has lost $350 million over 20 years of operations and recent court decisions would hold the company to a 2014 labor contract Block calls “outdated and inflexible”. T…
Newspaper Started in 1786 Will Cease Publication
One of America's oldest newspapers is about to print its last edition. Block Communications Inc. said Wednesday that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will publish its last edition on May 3, the New York Times reports, closing the books on a paper whose roots stretch back to 1786. The Toledo-based, family-owned company...
The owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced on Wednesday that the newspaper will close in a few months, citing financial losses. Block Communications Inc. announced that it will stop publishing on May 3. The newspaper is printed on Thursdays and Sundays and says on its website that the average paid circulation is 83,000 copies. About two dozen union members returned to work at the Post-Gazette in November after a three-year strike. More …
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to Shutter This Year After Failed Union Effort, $350 Million in Losses
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will shutter its print and web operations on May 3, management announced Wednesday. The historic, Pulitzer Prize-winning publication’s parent company Block Communications Inc. shared that the paper would close after years of being embroiled with staff over union ratification and what it cited as $350 million in losses. “Over the past 20 years, Block Communications has lost more than $350 million in cash operating the …
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