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“They (Alden) hide in the shadows but they’re the worst of newspaper owners. They care about nothing but the bottom line and pounce on this notion that newspapers are dead or a dead medium — and that's just not true.”

“The fewer reporters you have, the fewer reporters you have to watch out for government waste and wrongdoing. It becomes this cycle and they lead newspapers to circle the drain until you’re only covering the bare minimum.”

—Todd Cooper, president, Omaha World-Herald News Guild, in Kavahn Mansouri, “Hedge fund infamous for gutting newspapers now wants to take over 20-plus Midwest papers,” KCUR-Kansas City, National Public Radio, Nov. 22, 2021.

 

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Utah State University
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