13 Facts About Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ended daily print publication in 2018 and has cut down to two print editions per week, going online-only the rest of the week.

In 1960, Pittsburgh had three daily papers: the Post-Gazette in the morning, and the Pittsburgh Press and the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph in the evening and on Sunday.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette bought the Sun-Telegraph and moved into the Sun-Telegraph's Grant Street offices.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette tried to publish a Sunday paper to compete with the Sunday Press but it was not profitable; rising costs in general were challenging the company's bottom line.

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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette owned and operated its own news and editorial departments, but production and distribution of the paper was handled by the larger Press office.

In 1957, the Post-Gazette partnered with the H Kenneth Brennen family, local radio owners, to launch WIIC-TV as the area's first full-time NBC affiliate.

In 2019, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was a founding member of Spotlight PA, an investigative reporting partnership focused on Pennsylvania.

Four months later after Rogers was fired, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette hired conservative editorial cartoonist Steve Kelley as Roger's replacement.

In 2020, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette prohibited its reporter Alexis Johnson from covering the George Floyd protests.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said that Johnson, an African American, had shown bias by making a tweet that highlighted extensive littering from a Kenny Chesney concert tailgate.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette won the Wilbur Award from the Religion Communicators Council in 2017 for religion editor Peter Smith's work, Silent Sanctuaries.

In 2020, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette endorsed Trump's reelection bid, the first time since 1972 that the paper had endorsed a Republican for president.