A COMPLETE REFERENCE LIST
What is Alden Global Capital?
- Alden Global Capital 101
- Hedge funds and newspapers, a simple primer
- Working under a hedge fund: how billionaires made the crisis at America’s newspapers even worse
- Tough bargaining: An insider’s view of hedge funds and the news business
- Layoffs, buyouts across DFM newspaper chain follow hedge fund’s profit-extraction strategy
- Hedge fund Alden attempts takeover of Gannett newspaper chain
Court and federal investigations of Alden
- The Alden Matters: Heat turned up on Alden Global Capital in federal court
- Under federal investigation, Alden pulls half its proposed Gannett takeover slate
Congress and Alden
- Representatives launch national initiative to save local news
- Senators blast Alden Global Capital’s “newspaper-killing business model”
- Congress dives into the local news crisis
Alden’s financials
- Hedge fund Alden siphoned 100s of millions from newspapers in scheme to gamble on other investments, suit says
- In court filing, Hedge fund Alden admits diverting hundreds of millions from newspaper chain
- Leaked financial report shows jaw-dropping profits for ‘outlaw’ newspaper owner
- Newspaper chain DFM invests millions of pension dollars with its hedge-fund owner
- Who Profits From Alden Global Capital? You’d be surprised.
- NEW STUDY: Digital First Media leads in profits; news deserts expanding
Who is Randall Smith?
Who is Heath Freeman?
Alden/DFM real estate deals
- Mixing business and pleasure: newspaper asset sales mingled with home buying spree
- Alden Global’s friends in high places
Questionable overseas investments
- Untangling the web of Alden’s dubious deals
- Another form of misery: Alden’s slumlord investment in Mexico
- Island hopping with Alden Global Capital
Shoestores, pharmacies and more: Alden doesn’t just buy newspapers
- From newspapers to big coal: Alden’s questionable investments continue
- How newspapers — and communities — pay for bad hedge fund bets
- Is Alden Global Capital on shaky financial ground?
- The Alden Matters: Heat turned up on Alden Global Capital in federal court
- ‘Shrouded in suspicion’: Fred’s creditors ask for Alden investigation
The Denver Rebellion
- Denver Post newsroom slashed by 1/3 as hedge fund continues eviscerating Digital First Media papers
- VIDEO: Watch what hedge fund Alden Global Capital has done to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Denver Post newsroom
- The Revolution in Denver
- Alden Global’s Desperate Crackdown
- Showtime in Denver: an annotated transcript
- The Denver Rebellion: A year after reporters at the Denver Post cried out for help, what’s changed?
What’s it like to work at a DFM paper?
- The price of a Pulitzer
- Anatomy of a downsize
- The purpose of a newspaper in the hedge fund era
- Silence and the city: Oakland Tribune shuts down
- Keeping democracy alive in a rust belt town
- More awards, more layoffs
- THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING HEDGE FUND
- NEWSPAPERS WITHOUT NEWSROOMS
- Despite severe cuts, DFM reporters go above and beyond to cover California’s worst wildfire in history
- 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
- PULITZERS: Despite having the ‘worst owners,’ Digital First Media journalists continue to produce prize-winning work
- New survey reveals the stark reality of working at a hedge-fund-owned news chain
Saving local news
- Bringing back local ownership of the news
- EVERYTHING BUT THE NEWS
- Pioneer Press employees put out call for local owners
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