John Robinson Block, Newsman
by JEFF SEWALD

The life of John Robinson Block and his path to the Post-Gazette is recounted in his own words. “What people in Pittsburgh must understand is that, in my family, I am the one who stood in the way and said, ‘We will cut our costs, but we will cut them with a minimum impact on the product.’... But I am proud of our product, much of the time. Of course, I see problems with some headline stories and with some things that can be seen only when you’ve been looking at newspages for as long as I have. But, in terms of what we put into it, we’re still producing a full-​blown newspaper, even if we don’t publish a print version every day.”