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

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will end its operations on May 3, its owners said on Wednesday, marking the end of one of the oldest news publications in the United States.

“Block Communications and the Block Family are saddened to announce that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette plans to publish its final edition and cease operations on May 3, 2026,” the company’s owners said in a statement.

Block Communications cited more than $350 million in losses operating the publication over the past two decades. The company said that the “realities facing local journalism make continued cash losses at this scale no longer sustainable.”

They also cited a recent court decisions that would require the publication to operate under a 2014 labor contract.

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

The city’s other major publication, the Tribune-Review, went all digital in 2016.

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