(File Photo: Source for Photo: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette logo is displayed on the newspaper’s Pittsburgh office Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will no longer cease publishing in May because it is being acquired by a nonprofit media group. Block Communications Inc. of Toledo, Ohio is the current owner of the paper and has operated the publication since 1927, but they announced back on January 7th that the 240-year-old newspaper will cease its operations on May 3rd. However, the newspaper announced today that Block Communications Inc., is selling it to the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, which is based in Baltimore, Maryland and is the publisher of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Baltimore Banner. The sale will go into effect on May 4th, which is the day after the paper was supposed to publish its final edition. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will be the second news organization that is operated by the nonprofit that founded the Baltimore Banner in 2022. Newsroom and local business leadership of the newspaper will remain in Pittsburgh, while its name will stay unchanged, and other functions will be combined with the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette started back in 1786, and it is the first newspaper to open west of the Allegheny Mountains. If it had closed, it would have left Pittsburgh as the nation’s largest community without a city-based paper. The terms of the deal are unknown at this time but according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, it would continue to publish print editions on Thursday and Sunday.