“Post-Gazette journalists have done award-winning work for decades and we’re going to pursue all options to make sure that Pittsburgh continues to have the caliber of journalism it deserves,” said Andrew Goldstein, president of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh.

When local media shutters, “voting in elections goes down, fewer people run for office, corruption goes up. Those are all the ill effects of not having that journalistic watchdog role,” says Dan Kennedy, a professor of journalism at Northeastern University. 🧵

“I’m deeply worried about the public’s ability to access trustworthy and fact-checked information at a time when misinformation is running rampant online,” Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato said. 🧵