All Jobs Cut as St. Louis Newspaper Closes Facility

It's no secret that all traditional media faces challenges in this online world, but none more so than newspapers. A St. Louis newspaper has announced they are closing their local publishing center which means what few remaining jobs that were there will now be ending.

I received an alert this morning from the state of Missouri Jobs site that there was a new WARN notice from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In a letter to the mayor of Maryland Heights and a leader from St. Louis County along with the Missouri Department of Higher Education & Workforce Development, it said the announcement last October of the planned closing of the publishing center located at 11695 Fairgrove Industrial Boulevard in Maryland Heights, Missouri would continue as planned.

They say that the remaining 4 jobs will be eliminated on September 26, 2025, and on December 26, 2025 give or take two weeks. This is actually an extension of the original plans that would have ended the jobs at the end of August. Most of the other positions were eliminated back in January of 2025.

KSDK in St. Louis is reporting that the Post-Dispatch will still be published daily, but the printing will be outsourced to a facility in Columbia, Missouri.