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With Giuliani case damage award, poll-workers’ defamation charges shift to St. Louis

  • By Paul Wagman
  • December 21, 2023

A Washington, D.C. jury’s decision that former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani must pay two former Georgia poll workers.

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Alden and other venture capitalists threaten journalism’s role in democracy

  • By Margot Susca
  • December 14, 2023

From “Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy” by Margot Susca. Copyright 2024 by.

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The Davids fighting Goliath in West Virginia

  • By Julie Reynolds
  • December 7, 2023

A feisty team of lawyers and tenants in Appalchian mobile home parks are fighting Alden’s owners — and sometimes,.

First Amendment Celebration, News

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.

Media News, News

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,.

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