Pittsburgh Post-Gazette history

After his retirement in 1828, the Gazette passed into the hands of Morgan Neville who changed the name of the Pittsburgh Gazette and Manufacturing and Mercantile Advertiser and, within a year, sold it to David McClean.

By 1841, David N. White succeeded Craig and gradually made the Gazette one of the chief spokesmen of the anti-slavery forces in the North.

Expanding further, the Gazette acquired the rival Advocate and switched its daily issue time to morning in 1844.

In 1866, a partnership led by Nelson P. Reed took over the Gazette.

After consolidating with the Commercial in 1877, the paper was renamed as the Commercial Gazette.

In 1915 the Gazette-Times and Chronical Telegraph, both owned by Oliver, moved into a new headquarters building at the corner of Grant Street and Second Avenue.

In 1923, local publishers banded together to acquire the Dispatch and the Leader.

Block now owned and published the first-ever Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on August 2, 1927.

When the St Patrick's Day flood inundated the city in 1936, the Post-Gazette maintained uninterrupted publication by printing out of town for three days.

The Post-Gazette continued its reputation as guardian of the public good in 1938 when it fought against President Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court.

Upon the death of Paul Block in 1941, his sons, William and Paul Block, Jr., became co-publishers.

The former Post-Gazette building at Grant Street and the Boulevard of the Allies (Second Avenue), circa 1950.

On December 31, 1992, the sale became effective, and the Block family owned both Pittsburgh newspapers.

Soon the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette roared back to life, better than ever, on January 13, 1993.

Those listings from 1998 to the present are available online by using post-gazette.com's search function on the home page.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is available from 1786 to 2003 via ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Daily paper image scans are also available via ProQuest Digital Microfilm from 2008 to three months ago.

Beginning in November 2011, due in large part to public sentiment, the Pittsburgh Press name was revived as an online P-G publication.

On February 12, 2014, the paper purchased a new distribution facility in suburban Findlay Township.

Under increasing financial difficulties in a market now dominated by online viewing, in August 2018, the Post-Gazette ceased publishing daily.

Now, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is headed by Publisher and Editor-In-Chief John Robinson Block, son of Paul Block Jr., and Keith C. Burris, who was appointed executive editor in 2019.