The NewsGuild-CWA, the largest journalists’ union in the US, is asking the Justice Department’s antitrust division to look into Block Communications’ acquisition of the Pittsburgh City Paper, citing potential news market consolidation in the city.
“The NewsGuild-CWA urges the Department of Justice to investigate the competitive impact of this attempted consolidation of local news,” Jon Schleuss, president of the NewsGuild of the Communications Workers of America, wrote in a Wednesday letter.
Earlier this year, Block Communications, which already owns the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, struck a deal to buy the weekly newspaper through a subsidiary.
The acquisition will ...
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