The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will shrink to just under half its current size under its new owners, Post-Gazette employees told 90.5 WESA on Friday. And while the downsizing was no surprise, staffers expressed dismay at its magnitude — and some raised questions about whether union supporters had been targeted.
The Post-Gazette newsroom is said to have numbered around 100 people. But workers there confirmed that a sizable portion of them were not retained by the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, the Maryland-based nonprofit nonprofit which acquired the publication. The photography and high school sports departments took significant hits.
“We don’t know the full extent just yet, but it’s becoming more and more clear that we are looking at somewhere around half the newsroom being slashed, essentially, in one day,” education reporter Andrew Goldstein said Friday morning…