First Amendment Celebration, News and Opinion
Newspapers are vanishing, leaving democracy at risk
Newspapers are dying. Young people aren’t reading them. Predatory hedge funds are buying them up, laying off reporters, milking.
Media News, News and Opinion
Vulture hedge fund can’t stop Chicago’s media ecosystem from thriving
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
“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
In its voracious drive to apparently consume as many U.S. newspapers as possible, the so-called vulture capitalist Alden Global.
Media News, News and Opinion
Small news outlets in the Midwest unfazed by Elon Musk’s idea to charge X users
Last week Elon Musk floated the idea of charging users to use X, the social media site formerly known.
