Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter . It was a miraculous save. After a three-year strike , the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had been fated to close on May 3, as its publisher, Block Communications, had informed staff via prerecorded Zoom video. Then, weeks before doomsday, it was announced that the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism would be taking over, giving the Post-Gazette another shot. In 2022 the Venetoulis Institute, a nonprofit organization founded by Stewart Bainum Jr., a hotel magnate, established the Baltimore Banner , which has since grown into a robust newsroom and won a Pulitzer Prize. Andrew “Goldy” Goldstein, the president of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, was cautiously optimistic. But by Friday, Goldstein, along with about 40 percent of the Post-Gazette ’s staff—which had been roughly a hundred and twenty people—was told there would not be a job for him. Goldstein, an education reporter, had started at the Post-Gazette in 2014, as a twenty-one-year-old intern.…