Wondering Where Your Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Is Today?

PITTSBURGH, PA - It’s the dawn of a new era in Pittsburgh journalism. Tuesday marks the first day the city the city no longer has a printed newspaper on a weekday.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the city's only surviving daily newspaper, announced in june that it would cease printing the paper two days a week. To the dismay of high school football fans looking for Friday Night Lights coverage on their doorstep on Saturday mornings, the change went into effect this past Saturday.

The move means Pittsburgh is one of a growing number of cities that does not have a daily newspaper publication. The city's other daily newspaper, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, ceased print publication in 2016 and now publishes Pittsburgh news on the Triblive.com website with a dramatically downsized staff based in Tarentum.

Allan Block, chairman of Post-Gazette parent company Block Communications, told KDKA-TV that the publication is committed to a digital format in the future.

“Digital is better. We can deliver the conventional newspaper, pages and sections, broadsheet newspaper to an iPad,” Block said. “We can do it very well with the software we’ve developed.”

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