Voices: Yet another free press beacon is snuffed out

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a newspaper almost as old as the United States, is ceasing publication, striking yet another blow against our free press and democracy.

The announcement that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a newspaper founded shortly after the Revolutionary War, shocked many of my old colleagues.

“Dude, the Post-Gazette shut down!” a senior editor at NPR wrote to me. We came up together in Washington journalism during the early aughts, so when we communicate, it’s as if we’re still in our 20s…

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