Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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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.
The newspaper sponsors a major 23,000 seat outdoor amphitheater in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, the Post-Gazette Pavilion.
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