The Desperate Last Days of Local News
From billionaire dilettantes to pension funds, profit-seeking just isn’t compatible with the media’s core democratic functions.
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In 2018, in an act of defiance that would become known as the Denver Rebellion, a group of current and former
Denver Post staffers wrote and designed a six-page Sunday spread of op-ed pieces aimed at the paper’s owners, the New York–based hedge fund Alden Global Capital. The project, which led with the title, “As vultures circle,
The Denver Post must be saved,” detailed how Alden’s ownership decimated the outlet.