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''The Pittsburgh Press'' (formerly known as ''The Pittsburg Press''), published from 1884 to 1992, was a major afternoon daily newspaper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US. It was one of many competing city newspapers published prior to the First World War including The Hearst Corporation owned ''Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph'', the ''Pittsburgh Dispatch'', and the Block Communications owned ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette''. At one time, the ''Press'' was the second largest newspaper in Pennsylvania, behind only the ''Philadelphia Inquirer''. For four years starting in 2011, it was revived as an afternoon online edition of the ''Post-Gazette''. The paper published under the name ''The Pittsburg Press'', and referred to the city and its sports teams as "Pittsburg" until August 1921, when the letter H was added. == Joint operating agreement == In 1924, the ''Press'' was acquired by the Scripps-Howard Syndicate. During the 1960s, it entered into a Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) with the competing ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette''. The ''Post-Gazette'' had previously purchased and merged with the Hearst Corporation's ''Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph'' leaving just itself and the much larger ''Pittsburgh Press''. The JOA was to be managed by the ''Pittsburgh Press'' owners (E. W. Scripps Company) as the ''Press'' had the larger circulation and was the stronger of the two papers. Under the JOA, the ''Post-Gazette'' became a 6-day morning paper, and the ''Pittsburgh Press'' became a 6-day afternoon paper in addition to publishing the sole Sunday paper. This arrangement was in effect until Scripps began bargaining with the Teamsters union, whose contract with the ''Press'' expired in 1991. After a very lengthy Teamsters strike in 1992, Scripps sold the '' Press'' to Block Communications, the owners of the much smaller JOA paper, the ''Post-Gazette'', who promptly ceased printing the ''Press'' and folded it into the ''Post-Gazette''. In return, Scripps received ''The Monterey County Herald''. The sale required a ruling by the U.S. Department of Justice as the JOA was regulated by the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970. The outcome was a surprise to many people in Pittsburgh, as the ''Press'' had a much higher profile, and was the larger of the two JOA papers, both in company size and in circulation. Before the 1992 strike, many assumed that the smaller ''Post-Gazette'' would cease publication when the JOA expired. The departure of the ''Press'' also meant that Scripps was exiting the Pittsburgh market entirely. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pittsburgh Press」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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