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Newspapers are vanishing, leaving democracy at risk

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • November 30, 2023

Newspapers are dying. Young people aren’t reading them. Predatory hedge funds are buying them up, laying off reporters, milking.

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Vulture hedge fund can’t stop Chicago’s media ecosystem from thriving

  • By Kathleen Hayes
  • November 29, 2023

When Alden Global Capital bought Tribune Publishing in May 2021 and slashed Chicago Tribune newsroom staff to bare bones,.

Media News

Lee Enterprises after Alden

  • By Jack Grone
  • November 16, 2023

“The model is simple,” declared The Atlantic in its cover story for the November 2021 issue. “Gut the staff,.

Media News

The Alden effect – Nonprofit news on the rise

  • By Brant Houston
  • November 9, 2023

In its voracious drive to apparently consume as many U.S. newspapers as possible, the so-called vulture capitalist Alden Global.

Media News

Anatomy of Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

  • By Rick Goldsmith
  • November 2, 2023

In 2018, hedge funds had been scarfing up newspapers right and left for more than a decade.  But outside.

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