Numerous public pension funds have invested in Cerberus, the ‘shadow banker’ behind Alden Global Capital   Members of The NewsGuild are speaking out to public pension funds about their support of a company that has financed the destruction of local news…. Continue Reading →

Alden’s sleight-of-hand bid demands a closer look UPDATE, 11/25/2021: Lee Enterprises has enacted a plan to keep Alden from buying more than 10% of the company to give Lee more time to consider the takeover offer. By Julie Reynolds The… Continue Reading →

By Julie Reynolds Saying their investments are “enabling the destruction of local news,” The NewsGuild-CWA is calling on two of the nation’s largest public pension plans to consider divesting from the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management. In letters sent… Continue Reading →

Cerberus Capital Management is entrenched in the military industrial complex and its company trained a journalist’s assassins. It also made possible the takeover of Tribune Publishing.   By Julia Reynolds   To the ancient Greeks, Cerberus was the hound of Hades, a… Continue Reading →

Hedge fund Alden empties newsrooms right after Tribune takeover  By Julie Reynolds   The bells have tolled and the numbers are grim. This week, scores of Tribune Publishing employees accepted buyouts that were offered immediately after vulture hedge fund Alden… Continue Reading →

Tribune board members acted in their own interests, not their newspaper chain’s, while Alden failed to disclose a secret investor meeting and misrepresented its cash position.   By JULIE REYNOLDS June 22, 2021, 1:12 p.m.   The ink wasn’t dry, but the… Continue Reading →

Tribune announces Alden has successfully taken over, but the intentions of the man whose vote counts most remain unclear By Julie Reynolds Tribune Publishing officials said Friday that shareholders quickly voted to approve a takeover of the storied newspaper chain… Continue Reading →

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 →