Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh

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Representing the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom and full-time faculty at Point Park University | NewsGuild-CWA Local 38061

" 4/29/2026 Attn: Stewart Bainum Jr., Chair, Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism CC: Bob Cohn, President & CEO; Audrey Cooper, Editor-in-Chief; Andre Jones, Chief People Officer; Monique Jones, VP Editorial & Business Development; Dear Mr. Bainum, The undersigned are writing to warmly welcome you to Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism’s purchase of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has helped to preserve an historic institution responsible for recording much of this region’s history, dating back to 1786, as well as its future. An independent press is paramount, both for an informed populace to fully participate in democracy, and for the overall health of our communities. Although we fully anticipate days in which your workers’ critical coverage scrutinizes us closely, as public figures, we embrace those days. It’s part of our responsibility to the public we serve. That same responsibility extends to informing you of some basic foundations for success here."
Black copy on a white background from a Post-Gazette article published today reads: The Post-Gazette newsroom currently stands around 100. The new iteration of the PG going forward might need to start out smaller, Mr. Bainum said. “The Post-Gazette’s current business model does not support the size of the current newsroom,” he said. “We’re going to have to thoughtfully address that. “We’re learning as we go, so we certainly don’t have all the answers,” he said.
Steve Mellon, wearing a denim button-down, kneels in the middle of the aisle at 1Hood's Blaxk Box Theater Wednesday night as he listens to a town hall attendee. Much of the seated crowd is turned away from him toward the participant, unseen.
Tanisha Thomas, left, and Ed Blazina, right, holding a blue posterboard of community feedback notes, look off to the side during the reportback portion of Wednesday's town hall.
Dozens of seated town hall attendees sit at 1Hood's Blaxk Box Theater Wednesday night. Most are looking off to the left of the frame.
A graphic featuring three illustrated, faceless figures in black overalls and yellow shirts standing before a Pittsburgh skyline. One raises a megaphone and holds a rolled newspaper, one reads an open paper. Text reads: "Democracy needs journalism for the people. News monopolies divide our communities. Stories connect them. Let's write our future together." PAPER logo at bottom.
Black type on a white background reads "paper" within the blue outline of a pencil that runs off to the right, loosely mirroring Pittsburgh's three rivers. Beneath the logo it reads "PITTSBURGH ALLIANCE FOR PEOPLE-EMPOWERED REPORTING."
A group of people holding up their fists behind a sign that reads "Third Circuit ruled in our favor! We won!"
From left to right, a man in a red sweater and his hands in his pocket, another man with long hair and a long beard in a grey shirt holding his hands up, a final man kneeling and holding a laptop.
Red text over a white background reading "Post-Gazette striker win 3-year strike!"
Post-Gazette Strikers Win Three-Year Strike U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals Orders Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to Restore Workers’ Rights On Monday, the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to repeal more than five years of worker rights violations and to compensate the workers who were impacted by those violations. The order, which enforces a September 2024 ruling from the National Labor Relations Board, reflects the longstanding demands of Post-Gazette workers. They have been on strike since October 2022. The Post-Gazette must now comply with the Court’s order. Strikers look forward to ending the strike and returning to work. “Ever since Post-Gazette management ripped apart our contract in 2020, our union of journalists has been standing and fighting the lawless union-busting that we’ve been subjected to every step of the way,” said Andrew Goldstein, striking education reporter and Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh president. “When we walked out on strike in October 2022 it wasn’t just for us and our rights as workers, we were fighting for fair treatment for the future journalists in Pittsburgh and beyond. Today’s victory vindicates our fight and shows that NewsGuild workers will never back down no matter how long it takes.” Though the paper has continuously flouted federal labor law for the better part of a decade, the combination of its workers’ strike and a circuit court ruling corners the union-busting operation. The Supreme Court, in practice, does not accept appeals of this kind. And Post-Gazette corporate brass, and attorneys, have long maintained that they would win on appeal in circuit court. Instead, striking Post-Gazette workers — members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh-CWA — are ready to return to work on the terms they have demanded throughout their three-year strike. Those include a restoration of the health care plan the company illegally took away without bargaining in July of 2020. The contract coverage was rep…
A yellow bridge in front of a city background with three banners reading "POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN".
Striking Post-Gazette copy editor and page designer tells a No Kings Rally in Pittsburgh: "My fellow strikers have sacrificed time, money and their sanity to see our fight to its end. Why? Because they are dedicated to this city, to its people. Journalism and journalists are no strangers to attacks from those in power. Right now, they want you to be misinformed and ignorant of what they’re doing in our cities, to our friends and family and neighbors. We must band together as journalists, as working class people, to hold power to account and speak the truth. A community's journalism can only do that and get better if the journalists who work there consider it their home, have skin in the game and fight for it. That's what we're doing. That’s what we should all be striving for."
Three banners, two black with white text and one red with white text, that read POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN hang from a yellow bridge with the Pittsburgh skyline in the background.
Two rows of people, mostly wearing black t-shirts, pose for a photograph in Allegheny County Council chambers. The walls are wood with a yellow trim and the ceiling is white.
"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers ON STRIKE" on a black banner. Striking workers in black shirts are holding the sign.
Rats (Don’t) Matter Too in yellow chalk on pavement. A grey jeep sits in the background.
Two workers tape a white sign with a red heading to a brown utility pole.
“SPINELESS EDITOR PARK THIS WAY” in chalk on pavement.
Three people in black shirts posing for a picture with a crowd in the background.
A man in a black shirt speaks in front of a crown of Steelworkers at a rally.
A video with talking heads and cut away photos.
A man with a beard wearing a black shirt speaks into a camera.
Natalie Duleba, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette striker. A woman in a crowd giving a speech in front of a rally.
"Solidarity with Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers on strike". Black background, white and yellow words.
Humans speaking in front of a beige wall with an “On Strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette” picket sign behind them.
Solidarity with Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers on strike. Black background, skyline, white and yellow text.
Point Park Full Time Faculty Contract Ratified! Four people in red shirts at an outdoor union rally. One person is holding a black megaphone while giving a speech.
During Pittsburgh's 2024 Labor Day parade, workers wearing white t-shirts carry a black banner with white and yellow text that reads "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Workers ON STRIKE".