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  • Denver Post newsroom workers invoke “Thirst Amendment” to raise awareness about conditions under Alden
  • Pittsburgh newspaper workers are making history
  • Boundless Greed
  • The NewsGuild urges public pension funds to divest from Cerberus
  • NewsGuild to Lee Shareholders: Reject Alden’s ‘Vote No’ Campaign
  • When a hedge fund’s shell game backfires: Lee strikes back at Alden after courtroom victory
  • Guild members ask retirement systems to stop supporting the destruction of local news
  • How is Alden Global Capital going to pay for a takeover of Lee Enterprises?  
  • NewsGuild urges public pension funds to divest from Cerberus, citing the firm’s role in the destruction of local news
  • FROM NIEMAN LAB: The “shadow bank” that — with the help of public pension funds — is aiding the destruction of local news
  • Tribune papers lose more than 89 positions under staff buyouts
  • From Nieman Lab: Alden Global Capital and Tribune’s board are dancing at the edge of the law
  • Patrick Soon-Shiong has some explaining to do
  • The NewsGuild-CWA issues letter to Tribune shareholders urging a NO vote on Alden takeover
  • Tribune could take on massive debt to finance its own takeover
  • Denver Post newsroom pledges to improve diversity and racial equity, while owner Alden refuses accountability
  • Alden is undermining a Baltimore philanthropist’s higher bid for Tribune Publishing
  • Connecticut bill aims to block Hartford Courant’s hedge fund owners from making moves not ‘in the public interest’
  • With Tribune chain possibly up for grabs, Pennsylvania lawmakers come out to support local news
  • Congress finally faces the local news crisis
  • Tribune board agrees to sell company to Alden
  • Union asks Treasury Secretary Yellen to investigate Alden’s secretive offshore ownership of news chains
  • Alden’s Randall Smith needs to apologize for supporting Trump
  • Citing “gross violations and corporate malfeasance,” NewsGuild-CWA demands removal of Alden-connected members from Tribune Publishing board
  • Alden Makes Its New Year’s Move on Tribune
  • Another newsroom — this time at the nation’s oldest paper — is closing under Alden’s watch
  • Northern Colorado newspaper moves to unionize
  • A year under Alden’s grip, how is Tribune faring?
  • A new low for Tribune
  • Three Pennsylvania lawmakers implore Tribune to keep Allentown Morning Call offices open
  • Rep. Susan Wild joins officials calling out Alden for “choosing a path of profiteering” by gutting newsrooms
  • Company documents show hedge fund Alden is overhauling its newspaper strategy after pandemic brings surprise windfall
  • Bob Casey issues statement in support of Allentown Morning Call news workers
  • In Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, an elected official calls on hedge fund Alden to stop slashing jobs at its local newspaper
  • Hartford among growing rank of cities demanding answers from Alden Global Capital, “destroyer of newspapers”
  • Tribune Publishing, under hedge fund’s influence, defaults on rent and shuts down newsrooms
  • McClatchy newspapers appear safe from Alden for now
  • Randall Smith, king of vulture capitalists, is poised to feast on Tribune newspapers
  • Union workers at 10 Tribune papers launch campaign seeking local ownership
  • D-Day is coming for Tribune Publishing
  • Alden Global Capital and the destruction of local news, told in cartoons
  • Forget local news — casinos, banking and travel are Alden’s new pandemic interests
  • Alden’s allies elected to Tribune’s Board
  • Amid pandemic, Alden Global Capital goes on a buying binge
  • NewsGuild appeal to Tribune shareholders shines light on Alden’s downsizing, shrinking finances
  • NewsGuild challenges Alden’s Heath Freeman and his letter to Illinois senators
  • Alden Global Capital’s letter to Illinois Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, annotated
  • Saving Local News in the Time of Coronavirus
  • MNG/Alden just launched a flurry of layoffs and furloughs as local news readership soars in coronavirus crisis
  • Thank a journalist today
  • The wealth-extraction problem
  • A message to readers of the nation’s oldest continuously published newspaper: Your roof is on fire
  • Schumer demands answers from Alden Global Capital
  • The Op-Prop Chop Shop: How hedge funds like Alden extract wealth from companies they ‘invest’ in
  • Guns, fracking and big coal: Hedge fund Alden has a history of plundering its newspapers for questionable industry investments
  • Chicago City Council considers proclamation urging Alden to invest, sell, or face questions in person
  • Tribune newspapers lost scores of journalists and hundreds of years’ experience in buyouts last week
  • Alden/MNG is quietly buying a small Minnesota newspaper chain
  • Alden owner is deeply in Trump’s camp now
  • Digital First managers left employees’ personnel files in empty building
  • Now Alden is circling Lee newspapers
  • Journalists’ resistance grows over Alden’s attempt to take over Tribune newspapers
  • Denver City Council officially calls out newspaper owner Alden Global Capital
  • Tribune braces for the barbarians at the gate as hedge fund Alden takes two new board seats
  • The terrible news for Tribune papers and communities: Alden has landed, in a bigger way than we thought
  • Alden is now Tribune’s largest shareholder
  • New survey reveals the stark reality of working at a hedge-fund-owned newspaper chain
  • ‘Shrouded in suspicion’: Fred’s creditors ask for Alden investigation
  • Fred’s Pharmacies closing all stores as hedge fund Alden continues to eliminate thousands of jobs
  • Are you a current or former Digital First Media/Media News Group employee? DFMworkers.org wants to hear from you! 
  • As the vultures circle
  • A Capitol Idea: Calling Out Hedge Funds
  • The Alden Global Capital Crazy Wall
  • The Alden Matters: Heat turned up on Alden Global Capital in federal court
  • CONGRESS DIVES INTO THE LOCAL NEWS CRISIS
  • Alden poised to acquire Reading Eagle’s real estate along with a cash cow
  • Senators blast Alden Global Capital’s “newspaper-killing business model”
  • We did it! National action to stand up for local news begins with rejection of Alden’s tactics by Gannett shareholders
  • The other side of Alden’s Gannett takeover threat
  • Guild members stand united on World Press Freedom Day
  • Under federal investigation, Alden pulls half its proposed Gannett takeover slate
  • PULITZERS: Despite having the ‘worst owners,’ Digital First Media journalists continue to produce prize-winning work
  • Unions call for Gannett shareholders to reject hedge fund’s takeover slate
  • Representatives launch national initiative to save local news
  • Who’s the other vulture fund behind Alden Global Capital’s attempted hostile takeover of Gannett?
  • The Denver Rebellion: A year after reporters at the Denver Post cried out for help, what’s changed?
  • New filings show Alden Global Capital is picking up Tribune stock
  • Hedge fund Alden cuts costs by putting one editor in charge of scores of California papers as it aims for USA Today chain’s real estate
  • What would a DFM takeover of Gannett mean for the news industry?
  • Everything you need to know about Alden Global Capital and Local Newspapers
  • Hedge fund Alden attempts takeover of Gannett newspaper chain
  • Despite severe cuts, DFM reporters go above and beyond to cover California’s worst wildfire in history
  • SAVING LOCAL NEWS
  • NEW STUDY: Digital First Media leads in profits; news deserts expanding
  • THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING HEDGE FUND
  • NEWSPAPERS WITHOUT NEWSROOMS
  • Plateaus, dividends and Band-Aids
  • New Video – DFM Workers Fight to Save Local News
  • Showtime in Denver: an annotated transcript
  • Who Profits From Alden Global Capital? You’d be surprised.
  • Is Alden Global Capital on shaky financial ground?
  • SAVING LOCAL NEWS: a reporter takes his message straight to hedge fund president Heath Freeman
  • Highly profitable DFM again refuses to offer pay increase
  • VIDEO: We’re Fighting Alden Global Capital and We’re Not Backing Down
  • Speaking truth to Alden: photos
  • Journalists take the fight to Alden
  • Leaked financial report shows jaw-dropping profits for ‘outlaw’ newspaper owner
  • Alden Global’s Desperate Crackdown
  • A CALL TO ACTION for Digital First Media editors and publishers
  • The Revolution in Denver
  • In court filing, Hedge fund Alden admits diverting hundreds of millions from newspaper chain
  • THE ‘GHOST NEWSPAPERS’ ARE HERE
  • VIDEO: Watch what hedge fund Alden Global Capital has done to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Denver Post newsroom
  • Denver Post newsroom slashed by 1/3 as hedge fund continues eviscerating Digital First Media papers
  • News workers across US support Pulitzer winners speaking up for quality journalism
  • Hedge fund Alden siphoned 100s of millions from newspapers in scheme to gamble on other investments, suit says
  • Journalists Demand Owners Put Quality News Before Profits
  • NewsGuild urges Duke University to sever ties with hedge fund president over newspaper pillaging
  • Another form of misery: Alden’s slumlord investment in Mexico
  • Stunned communities respond as hedge fund accelerates newspaper staff cuts
  • Layoffs, buyouts across DFM newspaper chain follow hedge fund’s profit-extraction strategy
  • Untangling the web of Alden’s dubious deals
  • The Case for New Owners is Clearer Than Ever
  • Heath Freeman’s view from the 34th floor
  • The Pulitzer
  • THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN, Part 2
  • THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN, Part 1
  • From newspapers to big coal: Alden’s questionable investments continue
  • Mixing business and pleasure: newspaper asset sales mingled with home buying spree
  • When hedge funds own newspapers…
  • How newspapers — and communities — pay for bad hedge fund bets
  • I am ashamed: Veteran reporter slams a major news chain’s failure to cover Charlottesville
  • DFM papers hit with (yes, more) layoffs
  • More awards, more layoffs
  • Keeping democracy alive in a rust belt town
  • Why we fight
  • When hedge funds own newspapers…
  • A mosaic of solidarity for Press Freedom
  • Guild workers at Digital First Media and GateHouse Media stand together against profiteering owners on World Press Freedom Day, May 3
  • The price of a Pulitzer
  • Working under a hedge fund: how billionaires made the crisis at America’s newspapers even worse
  • Newspaper chain DFM invests millions of pension dollars with its hedge-fund owner
  • Standing up for journalism at DFM papers around the country
  • POLITICS AND THE NEWS
  • Digital First Media workers launch campaign to fight attacks on journalism
  • THE CONSEQUENCES OF DOWNSIZING: Surviving news workers struggle under doubled workloads while communities lose coverage
  • More layoffs squeeze already strained DFM newspapers
  • THE YEAR THAT WAS
  • EVERYTHING BUT THE NEWS
  • The purpose of a newspaper in the hedge fund era
  • Under confusing new plans, DFM news workers’ health costs rise
  • Pioneer Press employees put out call for local owners
  • Bringing back local ownership of the news
  • 12 News Guild bargaining units ratify three-year contract with major newspaper chain
  • TWELVE GUILD UNITS, DFM REACH TENTATIVE 3-YEAR ACCORD
  • Exposing Alden
  • How Alden Global Capital has pillaged the news — a tale in 19 Tweets
  • Support the right to report
  • Denver workers speak truth to power: We need a responsible owner
  • June 17 Day of Action — standing up to Alden Global Capital
  • Digital First Media Workers Take on Alden Global Capital Hedge Fund
  • Silence and the city
  • Alden Global’s friends in high places
  • Our #NewsMatters campaign: Taking on the hedge fund vultures
  • Island hopping with Alden Global Capital
  • Lower pay in a ‘bubbling pressure cooker’
  • First #NewsMatters Day sends a strong message: stop the cuts!
  • Guild Declares First #NewsMatters Day Friday May 6
  • Tough bargaining: An insider’s view of hedge funds and the news business
  • Guild Launches #NewsMatters Campaign
  • ‘Irresponsible stewardship’ of a prize-winning paper
  • DFM top exec won’t meet with concerned workers
  • DFM crows about financial performance as layoffs, buyouts continue
  • Hedge Fund Journalism
  • T-shirts show management that #newsmatters
  • Employees “unnerved” by sale of Orange County Register to DFM
  • Our own interests first
  • The power of a collective voice: why I’m a union member
  • A raise in exchange for your job
  • Bay Area News Group loses up to 40 jobs, bye-bye Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times
  • Standing up for fair wages because #newsmatters!
  • Anatomy of a downsize
  • More layoffs at DFM papers
  • “Distressed” DFM aims to buy more newspapers
  • DFM gives 3 percent pay raise to non-union workers in L.A. News Group
  • Read this, management!
  • Hedge funds and newspapers, a simple primer
  • Alden Global Capital 101
  • The time for a raise is now!
  • Hard copy, hard times
  • Digital First Media workers unite to fight for fair contracts

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  • Pittsburgh newspaper workers are making history
  • Boundless Greed
  • The NewsGuild urges public pension funds to divest from Cerberus
  • NewsGuild to Lee Shareholders: Reject Alden’s ‘Vote No’ Campaign

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