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The battle for Tribune: Inside the campaign to find new owners for a legendary group of newspapers


The battle for Tribune: Inside the campaign to find new owners for a legendary group of newspapers
Elahe Izadi, Sarah Ellison
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Baltimore Sun reporters in front of their building last month.
Last year, as a group of Baltimore Sun reporters embarked on a long-shot endeavor to find a new owner that could save their paper from a hedge-fund takeover, a former Maryland politician gave them a piece of advice.
Treat this like a political campaign.
The worried reporters would need to recruit community allies. Hire a public relations firm to sway public opinion. And most crucially: Figure out how to find rich people who might be persuaded to finance a rescue plan. ....

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