May 24, 2018
DFM BARGAINING BULLETIN
PHILADELPHIA — DFM management came to a bargaining session empty-handed today, telling a national coalition of NewsGuild representatives that the company’s hedge fund ownership intends to keep employee pay frozen companywide to help maintain …
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The fight to save hometown news is just beginning: “We will see you, and you’re definitely going to see us.”
#AldenExposed
On May 8, Digital First Media journalists rallied in New York City and Denver to tell Alden Global Capital executives to get their vulture hedge fund out of the news …
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By Julie Reynolds
Digital First Media journalists converged May 8 in Manhattan, arriving from newspapers around the country to deliver more than 11,000 signed letters demanding change from the chain’s hedge fund owner Alden Global Capital.
The group gathered in …
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By Julie Reynolds
The hedge fund behind draconian staff cuts at Digital First Media newspapers — including The Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News …
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By Julie Reynolds
New York-based hedge fund Alden Global Capital is bearing down on editors as it attempts to censor criticism of its management of the Digital …
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By Julie Reynolds
The rebellion two weeks ago by The Denver Post’s editorial board against the newspaper’s hedge-fund owners spurred a national outcry, including a front-page article in The New York Times and coverage in The Washington Post, Time magazine, …
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By Julie Reynolds
As the media world rocks and reels this week over the Denver Post’s defiance against its hedge fund …
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By Julie Reynolds
Hedge fund Alden Global Capital admitted in court filings last week that its newspaper holding company has diverted hundreds of millions of dollars from struggling Digital First Media newspapers into Alden-managed investments.
The cash siphoning, engineered through …
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By Julie Reynolds
It was probably Penelope Muse Abernathy…
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