Extra! Extra! Pittsburgh City Paper is Back
Months after its closure, the alternative newspaper will return under new ownership.
Only in the Zombie Capital of the World could a newspaper return from the dead.
Pittsburgh City Paper, the alternative newspaper shuttered on New Year’s Eve after 34 years, announced its return to online journalism and monthly print editions under the new ownership of nonprofit organization LocalMatters.
The publication will be a for-profit endeavor.
“You thought print was dead and gone, too, didn’t you?,” executive editor Ali Trachta wrote in a social media post. “If City Paper is alive, so is print — beginning soon with monthly issues. Print is City Paper’s essence. A real-life, free, physical newspaper that keeps you informed and entertained with feature-length storytelling is the antidote we all need to noisy, meme-filled algorithms.”
All City Paper content will remain free, but Trachta noted readers can support the publication with a sustaining membership.
City Paper was formerly owned by Block Communications, the owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which is slated to close in May.
