{"id":311658,"date":"2026-01-08T15:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?prc_email_campaign=pittsburgh-post-gazette-to-shut-down"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:15:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:15:49","slug":"pittsburgh-post-gazette-to-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"prc_email_campaign","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/newsletter\/the-briefing\/pittsburgh-post-gazette-to-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2600\ufe0f Happy Thursday!<\/strong>\u00a0<em>The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information<\/em>.<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/sign-up-for-the-briefing\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/sign-up-for-the-briefing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Sign up here!<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In today<em>\u2019<\/em>s email:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><strong>Featured story:<\/strong> Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to shut down<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>In other news:<\/strong> How the new Pentagon press corps covered Venezuela<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Looking ahead:<\/strong> What news influencers and social media stars mean for the future of journalism<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Chart of the week:<\/strong> Most teens visit YouTube and TikTok daily, including about 1 in 5 who say they do almost constantly<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udd25\u00a0<strong>Featured story<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<strong>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,\u00a0<\/strong>which started publishing in the late 1700s and won a Pulitzer Prize as recently as 2019,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/07\/business\/media\/pittsburgh-post-gazette-closing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">will shut down on May 3<\/a>. Its unionized workers recently ended a more than three-year strike after a court ruling in favor of the union, but the Post-Gazette\u2019s owners said that the\u00a0<strong>newspaper has lost more than $350 million over the past 20 years,<\/strong>\u00a0making \u201ccontinued cash losses at this scale no longer sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fewer Americans say they are getting local news from daily newspapers: A third\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2024\/05\/07\/americans-changing-relationship-with-local-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said in 2024<\/a>\u00a0that they do this at least sometimes, down from 43% in 2018. This fits with the\u00a0<strong>broader decline of local newspapers,\u00a0<\/strong>which have suffered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/fact-sheet\/newspapers\/#economics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">major losses in revenue<\/a>\u00a0since their business model was disrupted by the arrival of the internet and eventually smartphones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udccc\u00a0<strong>In other news<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>The new <strong>Pentagon press corps<\/strong> covered Venezuela with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/01\/07\/pentagon-press-hegseth-venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">few scoops and high praise<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>White House<\/strong> debuts <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/trump-january-6th-revisionist-history-1236665860\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">site about what happened on Jan. 6<\/a> with false claims<\/li>\n\n\n<li>What will happen to <strong>public media <\/strong>now that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2026\/01\/07\/are-pbs-npr-shutting-down-corporation-public-broadcasting\/88046403007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Corporation for Public Broadcasting has voted to shut down<\/a>?<\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/media\/a-timeline-of-the-major-deals-between-publishers-and-ai-tech-companies-in-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A timeline of content deals<\/a> between <strong>AI companies<\/strong> and <strong>publishers <\/strong>in 2025<\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/jan\/05\/bari-weiss-cbs-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A closer look<\/a> at the first few months of <strong>Bari Weiss\u2019 <\/strong>CBS News tenure<\/li>\n\n\n<li>New York Mayor <strong>Mamdani <\/strong>holds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/07\/business\/media\/zohran-mamdani-social-media-creators.html?partner=slack&amp;smid=sl-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">City Hall tour and private news conference for \u201cnew media\u201d<\/a> and social media influencers<\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2026\/01\/05\/cu-independent-website-ai-impersonator\/?share=rpusoe05iidaaappstta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Copycat website<\/a> poses as Colorado student paper to push <strong>AI slop<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Warner Bros. Discovery<\/strong> board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/01\/07\/wbd-rejects-paramount-offer-again-netflix-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">again reject<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/01\/07\/wbd-rejects-paramount-offer-again-netflix-deal.html\">s<\/a> <strong>Paramount <\/strong>takeover bid<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udcc5\u00a0<strong>Looking ahead<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After YouTube creator\u00a0<strong>Nick Shirley\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0viral video raised\u00a0<strong>allegations of fraud surrounding<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>child care funding in Minnesota,\u00a0<\/strong>a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/fault-lines\/what-a-viral-youtube-video-says-about-the-future-of-journalism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new article<\/a>\u00a0in The New Yorker looks at the rise of investigative journalism by news influencers and social media personalities \u2013 and asks what this new realm of journalism means for the future of the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About one-in-five Americans (21%) say they regularly get news from news influencers, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/fact-sheet\/news-influencers-fact-sheet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our recent survey<\/a>. When asked why they use news influencers to get news, people who regularly get news from this source name several factors as major reasons, including 54% who say influencers offer help understanding current events and civic issues and 46% who say they share different information than other sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2024\/11\/18\/americas-news-influencers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">separate 2024 analysis<\/a>\u00a0found that 77% of news influencers had no current or past affiliation with a news organization, signaling many news influencers\u2019 independence from legacy media. And about half of news influencers (52%) explicitly identify with a particular political orientation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udcca\u00a0<strong>Chart of the week<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A majority of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 use YouTube, TikTok and Instagram daily,<\/strong> according to a September-October <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/2025\/12\/09\/teens-social-media-and-ai-chatbots-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pew Research Center survey<\/a>. About three-quarters (76%) of teens report visiting YouTube daily, while 61% say the same about TikTok and 55% are on Instagram every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This includes around one-in-five teens who say they use TikTok and YouTube almost constantly<\/strong> (21% and 17%, respectively) and 12% who say this about Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-640-wide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/12\/PI_2025.12.09_teens-social-media-ai_0-03.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\ud83d\udc4b That&#8217;s all for this week.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Briefing is compiled by Pew Research Center staff, including Naomi Forman-Katz, Christopher St. Aubin, Emily Tomasik, Joanne Haner, and Sawyer Reed. 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