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Saturday, January 19, 2019

Bloomberg: A Hedge Fund Known for ‘Milking’ Newspapers Takes Aim at Gannett

by Gerry Smith A few dozen newspaper employees staged a protest last May outside the New York City office of

Digital First Media, the hedge fund-controlled firm known for extreme cost-cutting in newsrooms from the Philadelphia suburbs to California, is

CNHI sold to Retirement Systems of Alabama, its old owner; rural journalism institute director says that’s a good thing Community

by Kristal Kuykendall CNHI LLC, the parent company of Herald Banner Publications, has been acquired by the Retirement Systems of

by John E. Dunn As if the US newspaper industry doesn’t have enough to contend with, on the morning of

DECEMBER 20, 2018 BY GENE VEITH We got word a few days ago that the Oklahoma City newspaper will no longer

by Kevin Slimp First published March 11, 2014 There was a time when I was one of the few national

by SHANKAR VEDANTAM Hundreds of newspapers have closed across the country. The loss of local reporting means fewer investigations into

Jim Hightower’s latest column, “Free the Free Press from Wall Street Plunderers,” takes on the corporate bottom-feeders picking apart what’s

Columbia Journalism Review, a respected trade magazine in my industry, has been attempting to track the increasing number of “news deserts” in