Pittsburgh City Paper ceases operation
December 31, 2025After 34 years in publication, The Pittsburgh City Paper is no more. For the last 3 years it has been owned by Cars Holding, Inc. which is a subsidiary of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette owner, Block Communications, Inc.
Eagle Media, owner of the Butler Eagle; and Steel City Media, owner of WLTJ (92.9) and WRRK (96.9) have also owned the paper at one time or another. The move is blamed on financial hardships.
One has to wonder how this will affect Lynn Cullen’s podcast. Her latest program aired December 23. Her affiliation with City Paper dates back to the Steel City Media ownership. More as we hear it.
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Ahh, memories of pleasant Summer evenings sitting on the deck with a cold beverage and perusing the PCP and Green Sheet. The price was right on both.
For a region that has an aging population, seeing print media shut down rather rapidly in Pittsburgh is rather ironic. The Tribune-Review went online-only years ago (and has an ad-supported model that doesn’t require a paid subscription), the P-G itself only publishes two days a week, and now the City Paper is gone. I mean, it wasn’t a traditional newspaper by any means, but outside of USA Today and suburban newspapers like the Beaver County Times and the Greensburg edition of the Tribune-Review, what is there left?
I had lost track of the ownership changes after the CP changed hands from Steel City Media to the Butler Eagle, but it appears it wound-up in the hands of a subsidiary of Block, the same people who own the P-G. Given that reality I guess it made zero business sense for them to publish a free entertainment publication that was in direct competition with their own struggling newspaper.