86-833: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , also known simply as the PG , is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania . Descended from the Pittsburgh Gazette , established in 1786 as the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains , the paper formed under its present title in 1927 from the consolidation of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and The Pittsburgh Post . The Post-Gazette ended daily print publication in 2018 and has cut down to two print editions per week (Sunday and Thursday), going online-only
172-566: A Kenny Chesney concert tailgate. The pulling of Johnson from the story prompted an outcry from journalists, including the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh and many of Johnson's Post-Gazette colleagues. The Post-Gazette won Pulitzer Prizes in 1938 , 1998 , and 2019 . Photographer Morris Berman maintained that the paper would have also won a Pulitzer in 1964 , had it chosen to run the iconic photo of Y. A. Tittle that he took at Pitt Stadium , which would go on to win awards, hang in
258-458: A head in 1920 when a number of newspapers nationwide simply couldn't source newsprint at all and had to publish extremely truncated editions. In 1921, the paper had a circulation of 56,857. In 1940, the price of newsprint doubled again, reaching a level four times higher than the pre-war price. On March 23, the paper appeared with 86 news headlines on the front page and virtually no advertising except for customers under contract. The paper shortage
344-675: A large city having 5 or 10 local papers were drawing to a close. The Pittsburgh Dispatch published its last issue on 14 February 1923, its property, plant, and goodwill having been sold to the other Pittsburgh papers: the Pittsburgh Post , The Gazette Times and the Pittsburgh Press . The circulation of the paper was merged with the other papers, and the Rook Building at 1331-1335 Fifth Avenue in Pittsburgh
430-660: A local chapter of the new Republican Party , and with contributing to the election of Abraham Lincoln . The paper was one of the first to suggest tensions between North and South would erupt in war. After consolidating with the Commercial in 1877, the paper was again renamed and was then known as the Commercial Gazette . In 1900, George T. Oliver acquired the paper, merging it six years later with The Pittsburg Times to form The Gazette Times . The Pittsburgh Post first appeared on September 10, 1842, as
516-524: A local print publication, were often competitive and frequently hostile, given Scaife's longstanding distaste for what he considered the Blocks' liberalism. On 14 November 2011 the Post-Gazette revived the Pittsburgh Press as an afternoon online newspaper . On 12 February 2014, the paper purchased a new distribution facility in suburban Findlay Township, Pennsylvania . In 2015 the paper moved into
602-653: A new Pittsburgh edition to serve the city and its suburbs. Scaife named this paper the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review . Scaife has invested significant amounts of capital into upgraded facilities, separate offices and newsroom on Pittsburgh's North Side and a state of the art production facility in Marshall Township north of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County. Relations between the Post-Gazette and Tribune-Review, during its existence as
688-435: A new supervisor he had 19 cartoons or cartoon ideas killed in the first six months of 2018. Four months after Rogers was fired, the Post-Gazette hired conservative editorial cartoonist Steve Kelley as Rogers' replacement. After being fired, Rogers' comics continued to be published through Andrews McMeel Syndication . As a freelancer, Rogers was named as a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning, with
774-659: A new, state-of-the-art office building on the North Shore on a portion of the former site of Three Rivers Stadium , ending 53 years in the former Press building and more than two centuries in Downtown. Block Communications sold the Downtown Post-Gazette building in 2019 to DiCicco Development, Inc., a developer headquartered in Moon Township , for $ 13.25 million. As of late 2022, DiCicco Development
860-635: A population of 1.24 million and is the state's second-largest county after Philadelphia County . Garrett Nelson and Alasdair Rae's 2016 analysis of American commuter flows, "An Economic Geography of the United States: From Commutes to Megaregions", identified the Pittsburgh megaregion as a region encompassing the entirety or significant portions of 54 counties in Western Pennsylvania , Eastern Ohio , Northern West Virginia , and Western Maryland . By this definition,
946-428: A result of these issues, the paper considered a number of options, including putting the paper up for sale. In August 2018 the Post-Gazette ceased publishing daily. It cut down to online editions on Tuesdays and Saturdays and print editions the remaining days of the week. In October 2019, the paper further reduced its paper editions to Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. In March 2021, the paper cut down again, getting rid of
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#17327726154961032-473: A sense that Pittsburgh was kind of a place unto itself—not really southern, not really Midwestern, not really part of Pennsylvania. People just didn't move very much. In his 2009 book, The Paris of Appalachia , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writer Brian O'Neill meditates on this aspect of Pittsburgh's regional and cultural ambiguity. The title of the book is intentionally provocative: "The Paris of Appalachia" some have called Pittsburgh derisively, because it's still
1118-607: A statement: "It's as simple as this: Rogers was fired for refusing to do cartoons extolling Trump. Let that sink in." The paper said that Rogers' dismissal "has little to do with politics, ideology or Donald Trump" but did not provide details. Rogers wrote in the New York Times that the paper's new management had decided, in the lead-up to his firing, that his cartoons satirizing Trump "were 'too angry. ' " Rogers said that while editors had previously rejected (or " spiked ") an average of two to three of his cartoons each year, under
1204-451: Is "far more interconnected" with northeastern Ohio than it is with the eastern half of Pennsylvania, and that the industries of Pittsburgh are primarily linked to Ohioan cities such as Youngstown , Akron , and Cleveland , not to Pennsylvanian cities such as Allentown , Scranton , or Philadelphia . He notes that, conversely, the population centers of northeastern Ohio are primarily connected with Pittsburgh and only secondarily connected to
1290-445: Is another commonly used formal definition of the region. There are nineteen counties included in at least one of these definitions and their combined population was over 2.9 million in 2016. (2016) Historically, Pittsburgh has been grouped in the " Rust Belt "; however, reflective of the rebound of the region within the last generation, the metro area has been included as a part of the " Great Lakes Basin " gaining representation in
1376-468: Is co-signed with I-76 and in the extreme eastern part of the region also co-signed with I-70): It's also served by several Interstate spur routes: The Port of Pittsburgh ranks as the 21st- largest port in the United States with almost 34 million short tons of river cargo in 2011. It is the 9th-largest in the U.S. when measured in domestic trade. The Pittsburgh Regional Transit agency (PRT)
1462-499: Is home to several museums, galleries, and organizations which promote appreciation for the visual arts. The largest art museum in the region is the Carnegie Museum of Art , founded in 1895 by industrialist Andrew Carnegie and located in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood. It is renowned for its collections of 19th and 20th century decorative art , Japanese prints , and old master prints . Contemporary art museums include
1548-519: Is still deciding what type of use might work best on the property. On 6 October 2022 the advertising, distribution and production workers at the Post Gazette went on strike. On October 18, the newsroom workers joined the strike. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) also pursued a case against the paper charging unfair practices. As of March 2023 the strike had not been settled and the NLRB case
1634-501: Is the area's largest general aviation airport. The historic landmark, art deco terminal was the main passenger airport for the area until 1952. Allegheny opened in 1931 as the nation's third-largest and first with "hard surface" runways. Smaller suburban airports serve as private plane and corporate jet bases include: The Pittsburgh area is served by four main-line Interstates including the Pennsylvania Turnpike (which
1720-729: Is the largest mass transit service in the metro area and includes a 26-mile subway/light rail system , all serving the central core. This system is complemented by the Butler Transit Authority and Town & Country Transit to north destinations, Beaver County Transit Authority and New Castle Area Transit Authority to northwest destinations, Westmoreland County Transit Authority and IndiGo to eastern destinations, and Washington City Transit , Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority and Fayette Area Coordinated Transportation serving southern destinations. The University of Pittsburgh Transportation System also provides services in
1806-541: The 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for a series of photo essays on 21-year-olds, which was published in the Post-Gazette and two other papers of the Block Newspapers group. This award cited Block Newspapers rather than the Post-Gazette specifically. The Post-Gazette won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting . The paper
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#17327726154961892-697: The Anti-Masonic movement. Craig turned the Gazette into the city's first daily paper, issued every afternoon except Sunday starting on July 30, 1833. In 1844, shortly after absorbing the Advocate , the Gazette switched its daily issue time to morning. Its editorial stance at the time was conservative and strongly favoring the Whig Party . By the 1850s the Gazette was credited with helping to organize
1978-592: The Chronicle Telegraph , while Paul Block arranged to buy out the owner of the morning Post and evening Sun . After swapping the Sun in return for Hearst's Gazette Times , Block had both morning papers, which he combined to form the Post-Gazette . Hearst united the evening papers, creating the Sun-Telegraph . Both new papers debuted on August 2, 1927. In 1960, Pittsburgh had three daily papers:
2064-654: The Daily Morning Post . It had its origin in three pro- Democratic weeklies, the Mercury , Allegheny Democrat , and American Manufacturer , which came together through a pair of mergers in the early 1840s. The three papers had for years engaged in bitter editorial battles with the Gazette . Like its predecessors, the Post advocated the policies of the Democratic Party. Its political opposition to
2150-464: The Dispatch made its first appearance on February 9, 1846. It was the first penny paper published in Western Pennsylvania , initially comprising only four pages. The paper was almost unique in the industry for being profitable almost from the very beginning despite being started during an economic recession. Foster was a strong opponent of slavery in the United States and, having determined that
2236-489: The Dispatch was Pittsburgh's leading newspaper with a combined daily and weekly circulation of 14,000, compared with the number two Chronicle 's 5,584. Fleeson remained with the paper until his death in 1863. Although ostensibly independent with regard to party politics, the pre-Civil War Dispatch tended in editorial sentiment toward the anti-slavery Free Soil Party and later the Know Nothings , and eventually
2322-421: The Gazette published the newly adopted Constitution of the United States . In 1820, under publishers Eichbaum and Johnston and editor Morgan Neville, the name changed to Pittsburgh Gazette and Manufacturing and Mercantile Advertiser . David MacLean bought the paper in 1822, and later reverted to the former title. Under editor Neville B. Craig , whose service lasted from 1829 to 1841, the Gazette championed
2408-903: The Head of the Ohio crew race, Three Rivers Regatta , Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix , and the Pittsburgh Marathon . The regions rivers have hosted the Bassmaster Classic and Forrest Wood Cup and the city has enjoyed having one of only two teams to host the Major League Baseball All Star Game a record eight times. The area has also hosted the NHL All Star Game , NHL Winter Classic , Senior Olympics , NHL Entry Draft , AHL All Star Game , NCAA Tournament and Frozen Four . Winter in
2494-640: The International Professional Hockey League , in 1904. Professional hockey in Pennsylvania predated the professionalization of the game in Canada (where it eventually came to dominate in the early 20th century) by four years. Today, the region is home to three major league franchises in baseball, football, and hockey; several minor league teams in soccer, baseball, and hockey; and three major NCAA universities. Golf in
2580-544: The Mattress Factory and the Andy Warhol Museum , both located on Pittsburgh's North Side . Other regional visual arts museums include: The Pittsburgh area served as a launchpad for the professionalization of both American football and ice hockey in the 1890s and 1900s. The first professional player ( William Heffelfinger ) played for a Pittsburgh football team in 1892, which was followed by
2666-501: The Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science . Within the greater metropolitan area, universities include Clarion University of Pennsylvania , La Roche University , Slippery Rock University , Westminster College and Grove City College north of the city, Robert Morris University and Geneva College west of the city, Washington & Jefferson College , Pennsylvania Western University and Waynesburg University to
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2752-486: The Pittsburgh, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area MSA as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget . As of the 2020 census , the Greater Pittsburgh region had a population of over 2.37 million people. Pittsburgh, the region's core city, has a population of 302,971, the second-largest in the state after Philadelphia . Over half of the region's population resides within Allegheny County, which has
2838-554: The Post-Gazette and WPXI have on occasion had some news partnerships, the Post-Gazette's primary news partner is now the local CBS owned-and-operated station KDKA-TV . In 2019, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was a founding member of Spotlight PA , an investigative reporting partnership focused on Pennsylvania. When John Craig handed editorial reign to David Shribman in 2003, Craig told Shribman that
2924-505: The Post-Gazette editorial page. Pittsburgh mayor William Peduto (who was both a friend of Rogers' and had been lampooned in his cartoons) called the paper's firing of Rogers "disappointing" and said it sent "the wrong message about press freedoms." The firing was strongly criticized by the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh and the National Cartoonists Society . The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists said in
3010-661: The Post-Gazette endorsed Trump's reelection bid, the first time since the 1972 US presidential election that the paper had endorsed a Republican for president. Greater Pittsburgh Greater Pittsburgh is the metropolitan area surrounding the city of Pittsburgh in Western Pennsylvania , United States. The region includes Allegheny County , Pittsburgh's urban core county and economic hub, and seven adjacent Pennsylvania counties: Armstrong , Beaver , Butler , Fayette , Lawrence , Washington , and Westmoreland in Western Pennsylvania, which constitutes
3096-484: The Post-Gazette entered into an agreement with the Pittsburgh Press Company to combine their production and advertising sales operations. The 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. This agreement stayed in place for over 30 years. The agreement gave the Post-Gazette a new home in
3182-632: The Post-Gazette in the morning, and the Pittsburgh Press and the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph in the evening and on Sunday. The Post-Gazette bought the Sun-Telegraph and moved into the Sun-Telegraph' s Grant Street offices. The 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. In November 1961,
3268-458: The Press building, a comfortable upgrade from the hated "Sun-Telly barn". Constructed for the Press in 1927 and expanded with a curtain wall in 1962, the building served as the Post-Gazette headquarters until 2015. On May 17, 1992, a strike by workers for the Press shut down publication of the Press ; the joint operating agreement meant that the Post-Gazette also ceased to publish. During
3354-547: The Press . This would come back to haunt them and lead to financial problems (see "Financial Challenges" below). During the strike, publisher Richard Mellon Scaife expanded his paper, the Greensburg Tribune-Review , based in the county seat of adjoining Westmoreland County , where it had published for years. While maintaining the original paper in its facilities in Greensburg, he expanded it with
3440-708: The Pro Football Hall of Fame , and be used for the back cover of Tittle's autobiography and in a Miller Beer High-Life commercial in 2005. In 1938, Ray Sprigle won the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting for his investigation revealing that newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan . Staff photographer Martha Rial won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for her photographs of Rwandan and Burundian refugees. Photographer John Kaplan won
3526-492: The Republicans . The paper's warmth toward Know-Nothingism in the mid-1850s reflected Foster's belief that the movement was a better reform vehicle than the competing parties, which he saw as corrupt and beholden to the rising foreign-born vote. Foster rationalized the movement's nativism and anti-Catholicism , arguing that "the foreign Catholic vote is almost unanimously cast for slavery" and that immigrants made up much of
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3612-607: The Whig and later Republican Gazette was so enduring that an eventual combination of the two rivals would have seemed unlikely. The 1920s were a time of consolidation in the Pittsburgh newspaper market. In 1923, local publishers banded together to acquire and kill off the Dispatch and Leader . Four years later, William Randolph Hearst negotiated with the Olivers to purchase the morning Gazette Times and its evening sister,
3698-427: The "Post-Gazette Pavilion", although it is still often referred to as "Star Lake", based on the original name, "Star Lake Amphitheater", and later " Coca-Cola Star Lake Amphitheater" under the former sponsor. They gave up naming rights in 2010. First Niagara Bank , which had entered the Pittsburgh market the year before after acquiring National City branches from Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services , took over
3784-480: The "rum party" opposed to temperance reforms. Following the Civil War, in 1865 two employees of the paper, Daniel O'Neill and Alexander W. Rook bought a half interest in the paper, eventually taking full control when Foster died in 1868. O'Neill had been city editor for several years and had his finger on the pulse of the city, and he had forged an independent path on state and national issues, lending weight to
3870-414: The 2010s, especially following the 2018 consolidation of its editorial department with that of longtime sister newspaper The Blade of Toledo, Ohio , and the appointment of The Blade's editorial page editor, Keith Burris, a frequent defender of Donald Trump , as the Post-Gazette's editorial page editor. Burris assumed the additional position of executive editor of the Post-Gazette in 2019. In 2020,
3956-560: The 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for an investigation into sexual abuse in Pennsylvania's Amish and Mennonite communities. Michael Sallah , Michael Korsh and Evan Robinson-Johnson of the Post-Gazette , with ProPublica , won the 2023 George Polk Award for medical reporting for a series on Philips Respironics' efforts to continue marketing their breathing machines despite knowing they were dangerous to users. The Post-Gazette historically sided with modern liberalism in its editorial stance. However, it turned more conservative in
4042-596: The East...and the other in the Midwest". Barbara Johnstone , professor of rhetoric and linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University , ascribes this isolation and idiosyncratic cultural identity of the region to the difficulty of moving through the Allegheny Mountains and the Allegheny Plateau . The Pittsburgh area was sort of isolated. It was very hard to get back and forth across the mountains. There's always been
4128-516: The Friday edition. In June 2018, the Post Gazette fired its long-time editorial cartoonist, Rob Rogers , a previous Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning finalist who had worked at the paper for 25 years, having joined the paper in 1993 and worked under four supervising editors . The firing came in the context of increasing support for President Donald Trump and political conservatism on
4214-614: The Great Lakes Metro Chamber Coalition. Pittsburgh's association with the Great Lakes region is due in part to its economic, demographic and commuter connections to Great Lakes cities like Cleveland , Erie , Toledo and even Detroit . Christopher Briem, an economist at the University of Pittsburgh 's University Center for Social and Urban Research, has argued that southwestern Pennsylvania
4300-751: The Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech also identify the region between Cleveland and Pittsburgh as being an interconnected "megapolitan area" and refer to it as the "Steel Corridor". The largest school district in the area is the Pittsburgh Public Schools , with the school districts of Allegheny County also boasting large student bodies. Many private schools also serve the core county of Allegheny. More public districts are found throughout Beaver , Westmoreland , and Washington counties, and private schools in each county. Several area colleges and universities serve
4386-403: The airport has seen expanded service from JetBlue , Southwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines ' direct trans-Atlantic service to Paris. Arnold Palmer Regional Airport offers commercial service via Spirit Airlines to Florida and South Carolina. Palmer has had commercially scheduled air service since the 1980s. Allegheny County Airport ( IATA : AGC ) in suburban West Mifflin, Pennsylvania ,
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#17327726154964472-546: The borders of Appalachia as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission . The City of Pittsburgh has been characterized as the "northern urban industrial anchor of Appalachia" which makes it an anomaly compared to much of Appalachia which has traditionally been characterized as southern, rural, and economically distressed. Joseph Scarpaci, professor emeritus of geography at Virginia Tech , has described Pittsburgh as having "one foot in
4558-471: The committee citing his "provocative illustrations that channeled cultural and historical references with expert artistry and an eye for hypocrisy and injustice." In 2020, the Post-Gazette prohibited its reporter Alexis Johnson from covering the George Floyd protests . The Post-Gazette said that Johnson, an African American , had shown bias by making a tweet that highlighted extensive littering from
4644-411: The competition most of whom were using the older blanket press in a broad sheet format. Another advantage gained by introducing new technology came from the press' ability to print and fold the paper. Boys who once were used to fold in the printing plant were sent into the street to sell the paper, redoubling the publisher's marketing effort. O'Neill led the Pittsburgh papers on the news gathering side of
4730-688: The east. Freight rail is a major industry for the area with the Pittsburgh Line and the Conway Yard among other infrastructure serving the region. Both the Greyhound Lines and Megabus serve the area. Pittsburgh and its surrounding area has a distinct regional identity and has historically been regarded as a transitional region within the Northeastern United States. The region's counties also fall within
4816-544: The eastern core of the metropolitan area while Mountain Line Transit serves the city, western suburbs and an express route south to Morgantown, West Virginia . A metro map of all fixed route transit routes for Pennsylvania counties can be found here. Amtrak serves the region with stops at Penn Station in Downtown Pittsburgh , Connellsville to the southeast and both Greensburg and Latrobe to
4902-651: The first open professional ( John Brallier ), the first all-professional team (the Latrobe Athletic Association ), and a participant in the first all-professional league (the Pittsburgh Stars of the first National Football League ). In the case of ice hockey, the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League was the first hockey league to pay its players in 1901, eventually merging into the first fully pro league,
4988-417: The hotly contested presidential election of 1880 which saw James A. Garfield elected. When Rook died in 1880, Eugene M O'Neill took control of the paper and its editorial direction and eventually bought full ownership from Rook's estate. E.M. continued in charge of both the editorial and business departments for the next 12 years. The paper began publishing a Sunday edition on September 9, 1883, targeting
5074-613: The informal regional boundaries are similar to historical interpretations where the region is defined as the central portion of the Allegheny Plateau to the west and north of the Allegheny Front and south of Lake Erie and Pennsylvania's Northern Tier . The hills and river valleys along the Upper Ohio River and its many eastern tributaries, including the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers have historically been
5160-416: The largest and most prosperous newspapers in the United States. From 1880 to 1887 native of nearby Cochran's Mills , Nellie Bly worked for the Dispatch writing investigative articles on female factory workers, and later reported from Mexico as a foreign correspondent. The paper was politically independent and was particularly known for its in-depth court reporting. Established by Col. J. Heron Foster ,
5246-526: The largest city along this gorgeous mountain chain that needs a better press agent. I've long felt we should embrace that title, though few are with me. Several tried to talk me out of slapping it on the cover, but were we called "The Paris of the Rockies," we wouldn't run from it. Sometimes we're so afraid of what others think, we're afraid to say who we are. This city is not Midwestern. It's not East Coast. It's just Pittsburgh, and there's no place like it. That's both its blessing and its curse. Greater Pittsburgh
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#17327726154965332-487: The leisure time of its audience on that day, and justifying its higher price by providing more in-depth articles and a wider selection than the daily paper. The strategy was an instant success. An earlier attempt at a Sunday paper, in 1870, had failed in the same year. Ownership of the paper was reorganized in corporate form under the title "The Dispatch Publishing Company" in 1888 with E.M. O'Neill as President, Bakewell Phillips, Treasurer, and C.A. Rook, Secretary. Phillips
5418-441: The local market thought similarly, lent an abolitionist tone to the paper. He was also a strong supporter of women's suffrage . His daughter Rachel Foster Avery became a prominent worker in the National American Woman Suffrage Association . He hired a woman to work in the newsroom and invited the protesting men to leave if they did not wish to work alongside her. Initially Foster acted not only as business manager and financier of
5504-1139: The major centers of population of the region. According to this research the US can be divided into 'mega regions' based on the most extreme commuting patterns within a geographical area (commutes within 100 miles from the core city). By this liberal definition, the Pittsburgh mega region consists of twenty-eight Pennsylvania counties ( Allegheny , Armstrong , Beaver , Bedford , Blair , Butler , Cambria , Cameron , Centre , Clarion , Clearfield , Crawford , Elk , Erie , Fayette , Forest , Greene , Huntingdon , Indiana , Jefferson , Lawrence , Mercer , Mifflin , Somerset , Venango , Warren , Washington , and Westmoreland ), nineteen West Virginia counties ( Barbour , Brooke , Doddridge , Grant , Hancock , Harrison , Lewis , Marion , Marshall , Mineral , Monongalia , Ohio , Preston , Randolph , Taylor , Tucker , Tyler , Upshur , and Wetzel ), five Ohio counties ( Belmont , Columbiana , Harrison , Jefferson , and Monroe ), and two Maryland counties ( Allegany and Garrett ), and portions of Chautauqua, New York in and around Ripley . The combined population of
5590-420: The megaregion was over 4.9 million in 2016. There are also several formal definitions of Greater Pittsburgh which are often used in media mentions of the region. These include the Office of Management and Budget 's Pittsburgh, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and Pittsburgh-New Castle-Weirton, PA-OH-WV Combined Statistical Area (CSA). The Nielsen Corporation 's Pittsburgh Designated Market Area (DMA)
5676-462: The metro area boasts such courses as Oakmont Country Club , which has hosted the U.S. Open a record nine times, and Foxburg Country Club the oldest continuous club in the U.S. Such tournaments as the 84 Lumber Classic , Pittsburgh Senior Open and the current Mylan Classic call the region home. Area courses have also hosted multiple PGA Championships , LPGA Championships , U.S. Women's Opens and Ryder Cup matches. Annual sporting events include
5762-409: The metro area. Pittsburgh International was the fortress hub of US Airways from 1952 to 2005 with over 500 daily departures to more than 110 destinations in 2000. By 2007, fewer than 70 departures to 21 destinations remained. In 2007, US Airways did select the airport for its new $ 25 million, 27,000 sq ft (2,500 m ), 600-employees-strong Global Flight Operations Center . Since being de-hubbed
5848-421: The music editor and critic for the Dispatch . The entry of the United States into World War I in 1917 began a period of paper shortages, especially newsprint . According to The Bureau of Business Research at Northwestern University the price of newsprint doubled between 1916 and 1917. Making matters worse was an increasingly difficult task of sourcing paper at all for the next five years. Matters came to
5934-406: The naming rights to the facility and is now known as the KeyBank Pavilion . The newspaper once had ventures in television. In 1957, the Post-Gazette partnered with the H. Kenneth Brennen family, local radio owners, to launch WIIC-TV (now WPXI ) as the area's first full-time NBC affiliate. The Post-Gazette and the Brennens sold off the station to current owner Cox Enterprises in 1964. Although
6020-406: The neutrality of the newspaper's editorial page. The paper was still four sheets, but management bought new rotary presses and they significantly enlarged its coverage, eventually doubling its size making it one of the largest and most prosperous newspapers in the United States. While a risky move because of the expense, the cover price was increased from 6 to 15 cents per week and the public liked
6106-457: The operation. At this time most newspapers relied on the Associated Press newswire for their national news. Consequently, all papers were printing the same stories word for word. O'Neill reinvested the savings realized from his advanced presses and engaged correspondents in Washington and the other news centers around the country. The result was a fresher perspective and different stories from competitive papers. This advantage showed particularly in
6192-405: The paper was in terrible financial shape. It was around the time of Hanukkah , and Shribman quipped, "It seemed there was only enough oil in this newspaper to keep the light on for one year." In September 2006 the paper disclosed that it was experiencing financial challenges, largely related to its labor costs. The paper also disclosed it had not been profitable since printing had resumed in 1993. As
6278-534: The paper, but wrote extensively in it as well, even producing the copy on a hand press. In 1849, Foster brought in a partner, RC Fleeson and the firm changed names to Foster & Fleeson. At the outbreak of the Civil War , Foster joined the Union Army , but production of the paper continued. The paper had become successful due to its independent approach to the news and its in-depth court reporting: In 1857,
6364-417: The public enjoyed. The same year as Daniel's death, 1877, the firm suffered the loss of the printing plant due to fire. O'Neill replaced the rotary press with a state-of-the-art "perfecting press" which could print both sides of the paper at the same time. They simultaneously reduced the size of the printed sheet and doubled the number of pages. The smaller size and greater bulk made the Dispatch stand out from
6450-463: The region sees sport continue at such rinks at PPG Place and North Park as well as area ski resorts like Boyce Park , Seven Springs Mountain Resort , Hidden Valley , Laurel Mountain and Wisp . Pittsburgh Dispatch The Pittsburgh Dispatch was a leading newspaper in Pittsburgh , operating from 1846 to 1923. After being enlarged by publisher Daniel O'Neill it was reportedly one of
6536-502: The region. Pittsburgh itself is home to many colleges, universities, and research facilities, the most well-known of which are Carnegie Mellon University , the University of Pittsburgh , and Duquesne University . Also in the city are Carlow University , Chatham University , Point Park University , the Community College of Allegheny County , Pittsburgh Theological Seminary , Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary , and
6622-525: The rest of the week. In the 2010s, the editorial tone of the paper shifted from liberal to conservative , particularly after the editorial pages of the paper were consolidated in 2018 with The Blade of Toledo, Ohio . After the consolidation, Keith Burris, the pro- Trump editorial page editor of The Blade , directed the editorial pages of both papers. Copies are sold for $ 4 daily (Thursdays) and $ 6 Sundays/Thanksgiving Day in-state. This includes Allegheny and adjacent counties. Prices are higher outside
6708-409: The results and circulation grew, making the Dispatch the largest circulation paper in Pittsburgh with a circulation of 14,000. The two partners ran the paper until O'Neill's death in 1877. Following O'Neill's death, Eugene M O'Neill , Daniel's brother, took a more leading role in the paper along with Rook. E. M. O'Neill continued his brother's independent approach to political and civic issues which
6794-556: The south, and Seton Hill University , Saint Vincent College , Westmoreland County Community College and Indiana University of Pennsylvania to the east. Pittsburgh International Airport ( IATA : PIT ) is located 17 mi (27 km) to the west of downtown Pittsburgh in Findlay . The smaller but less crowded Arnold Palmer Regional Airport ( IATA : LBE ) to the east of downtown in Latrobe provides commercial service to
6880-411: The state capital of Columbus . Briem argues that "In so many ways the state boundaries we think of as important are no more than lines on a map." In recognizing their economic interdependence, Briem coined the term "Cleveburgh" to refer collectively to the cities of Cleveland and Pittsburgh, along with the smaller towns dotting the corridor of I-76 between the cities. Robert Lang and Arthur Nelson of
6966-434: The state. PG staff have been on strike since October 2022. The Post-Gazette began its history as a four-page weekly called The Pittsburgh Gazette , first published on July 29, 1786, with the encouragement of Hugh Henry Brackenridge . It was the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains . Published by Joseph Hall and John Scull, the paper covered the start of the nation. As one of its first major articles,
7052-573: The strike, the Scripps Howard company sold the Press to the Block family, owners of the Post-Gazette . The Blocks did not resume printing the Press , and when the labor issue was resolved and publishing resumed, the Post-Gazette became the city's major paper, under the full masthead name Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sun-Telegraph/The Pittsburgh Press . The Block ownership did not take this opportunity to address labor costs, which had led to sale of
7138-548: Was not caused by a decrease in nationwide production, which had been steadily rising, instead the strong post World War I economy and the attendant advertising boom caused an increase in demand which the paper mills could not meet. The combination of rapidly rising costs and higher spending on new press technology led to a trend toward industry consolidation in the 1910s and 1920s. Multi-city newspaper syndicates, such as Scripps-Howard , bought up independent papers and either consolidated them or closed them to cut costs. The days of
7224-587: Was pending before an administrative law judge. As of January 2024, the unions were still on strike against the Post-Gazette. In April 2024 the National Labor Relations Board announced it was authorizing a request from the newspaper's unions to seek a temporary injunction against the Post-Gazette's ownership for violating workers' labor rights. The newspaper sponsored a 23,000 seat outdoor amphitheater in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania ,
7310-838: Was praised for its "immersive, compassionate coverage." In 1997, Bill Moushey won the National Press Club ’s Freedom of Information Award on a series investigating the Federal Witness Protection Program and was a finalist for the Pulitzer. The Post-Gazette also won the Wilbur Award from the Religion Communicators Council (RCC) in 2017 for religion editor Peter Smith's work, Silent Sanctuaries . Smith, Stephanie Strasburg, and Shelly Bradbury were finalists for
7396-579: Was the son of Ormby Phillips who was part owner of the paper until his death in 1884. Phillips, a former mayor of the City of Allegheny had been the business manager of the firm. Eugene O'Neill continued to oversee the paper until his retirement in 1902. Alexander Rook's son, Charles A Rook, purchased control of the corporation and took over as President and editor-in-chief of the paper, Eugene O'Neill became Vice President, and Daniel O'Neill's son Florence became Treasurer. In 1908, Charles Wakefield Cadman became
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