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em Baltimore Sun /em reporter Liz Bowie, shown at center, has helped to lead an effort by Tribune Publishing's journalists to seek new owners for its papers and hold a hedge fund at bay.
Journalists working for the storied newspapers of Tribune Publishing Company are racing against the most intense deadline of their careers to find new owners for their company before May 21.
That's when the hedge fund Alden Global Capital, infamous for stripping newsrooms to the bone, is poised to make good on its plans to buy the chain in a $635 million deal. Alden already holds half of Tribune Publishing's publicly traded shares.