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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

Alden and Tribune Publishing

• A year under Alden’s grip, how is Tribune faring?
• Alden makes it New Year’s Eve move on Tribune
• Company documents show hedge fund Alden is overhauling its newspaper strategy after pandemic brings surprise windfall
• A new low for Tribune
• Another newsroom — this time at the nation’s oldest paper — is closing under Alden’s watch
• Three Pennsylvania lawmakers implore Tribune to keep Allentown Morning Call offices open

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?

• THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN, Part 1
• THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN, Part 2

Who is Heath Freeman?

• Heath Freeman’s view from the 34th floor

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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• The complete DFMworkers archive