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- 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
- STAND UP TO THE WALL STREET HEDGE FUND STRIP MINING 100+ NEWSPAPERS NATIONWIDE
- 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