Overview
- Block Communications announced the paper will publish a final edition on May 3, 2026, and then cease all print and digital operations.
- The company says it has lost more than $350 million operating the Post-Gazette over the past 20 years.
- Recent rulings—including a Third Circuit decision and the Supreme Court’s denial of the paper’s appeal—restore the 2014–2017 union contract, which the owner argues is unworkable.
- Staff members say they were told of the closure in a companywide Zoom meeting minutes before the public announcement.
- The move follows the shutdown of the Block-owned Pittsburgh City Paper and would leave the Tribune-Review as the region’s remaining major newspaper, while the Toledo Blade is unaffected.