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Denver Post staffers to launch digital news venture (VIDEO)
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As The Denver Post sheds staff under its hedge-fund owners, a pair of the newspaper’s recently departed editors plan to lead a new digital news venture called The Colorado Sun. Working with editors Dana Coffield and Larry Ryckman on the project are some of The Post’s best-known former news reporters – Jason Blevins, Jennifer Brown,…
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Denver Post staffers protest hedge-fund owner
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Denver Post employees from more than just the newsroom walked out of the newspaper’s Adams County headquarters Tuesday in protest of their hedge-fund owners. The daily newspaper’s workers say New York-based Alden Global Capital has made unprecedented cuts and censored their efforts to expose what they’ve referred to as the firm’s “vulture capitalist” practices that…
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Denver Post editorializes against its own owners
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The Denver Post editorial board has taken the unusual step of calling out its own hedge-fund owners in a scathing opinion package. In a six-page editorial section published Sunday, which first appeared online a few days ago, the Denver daily decries deep cutbacks by owner Alden Global Capital that have shriveled its newsgathering staff from…
