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The ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', also known simply as the '''PG''', is the largest daily Newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . It was founded in 1786 with the encouragement of Hugh Henry Brackenridge as a four-page weekly, the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains , by Joseph Hall and John Scull. Since the time the paper has consolidated with or bought out many other Pittsburgh papers. In the 1960s the ''Post-Gazette'' entered into an agreement with the Pittsburgh Press Company to combine their production and advertising sales operations. Beginning May 17 , 1992 , a strike by workers for the ''Press'' shut down both papers for the rest of the year. During 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 the ''Post-Gazette'' became the city's major paper. The paper's opinion page is generally considered moderately liberal, in contrast to the city's other major paper, the more conservative '' Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ''. Its current daily circulation is about 243,000 with over 400,000 on Sunday. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINK |
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