By Julie Reynolds The nation’s largest union representing journalists has filed a letter to shareholders with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, urging a “no” vote on hedge fund Alden Global Capital’s attempted takeover of Tribune Publishing. The NewsGuild-CWA… Continue Reading →

Cash-strapped and banished from its luxury offices, Alden Global Capital has crafted a Faustian bargain to buy the publisher  By Julie Reynolds Alden Global Capital says it can buy Tribune Publishing with surplus cash on hand, but the former New… Continue Reading →

Staff says hedge fund Alden refused to let paper publish diversity announcement for readers By Julie Reynolds After George Floyd’s killing and the national reckoning on race that followed, journalists at the Denver Post have been meeting regularly to look… Continue Reading →

Tribune CEO Terry Jimenez was lone voice voting against Alden takeover  By Julie Reynolds Alden Global Capital is aggressively undermining an effort by a Maryland hotel magnate to buy Tribune Publishing and possibly make its papers nonprofit charities, a new… Continue Reading →

A committee of the Connecticut state legislature heard compelling testimony Thursday about the value of The Hartford Courant to the local community and the threat that Alden Global Capital poses to it. “The hedge funds and private equity (newspaper) owners… Continue Reading →

By Julie Reynolds Two Pennsylvania lawmakers have made new public statements in support of local journalism and the Allentown Morning Call, a newspaper whose ownership is now up for grabs as a vulture hedge fund’s offer for Tribune Publishing faces… Continue Reading →

In a hearing on saving “the free and diverse press,” NewsGuild president urges lawmakers to protect local news and jobs   By Julie Reynolds Summing up the nation’s local news crisis as a combination of unfair siphoning of advertising revenue… Continue Reading →

Deal includes selling The Baltimore Sun and several other papers to a nonprofit foundation Sale must be approved by 2/3 of remaining shareholders   By Julie Reynolds Alden Global Capital, the New York hedge fund known for draconian cost-cutting at… Continue Reading →

Request comes as Alden is poised to acquire Tribune Publishing By Julie Reynolds As New York vulture fund Alden Global Capital takes steps to take majority control of Tribune Publishing, The NewsGuild-CWA has requested a federal inquiry into Alden’s secretive… Continue Reading →

By Jon Schleuss Earlier today, I wrote to Randall D. Smith, a Tribune director and the principal of Alden Global Capital,  urging him to condemn the recent assault on the U.S. Capitol by the supporters of President Donald J. Trump. I… Continue Reading →