The owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have announced that the newspaper will cease operations within the next four months.
The newspaper reported that Block Communications, Inc., and the Block Family announced the paper’s closure Wednesday, saying the publication “plans to publish its final edition and cease operations on May 3, 2026.”
The announcement said the company has lost more than $350 million operating the Post-Gazette and blamed recent court decisions requiring the newspaper to adhere to a 2014 labor contact “that imposes… outdated and inflexible operational practices unsuited for today’s local journalism.”
According to the newspaper, the decision will not affect the Toledo Blade, the Post-Gazette’s sister newspaper in Ohio.
The Post-Gazette's origins date back to 1786, when according to a history of the newpaper posted on its website, it began as the Pittsburgh Gazette, "the first newspaper west of the Allegheny Mountains." Among its first public services, it says, was printing the nation’s newly adopted Constitution in 1787.
