the denver post
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Denver Post owner’s hostile bid for Gannett rattles news industry
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The hostile takeover bid for USA Today parent Gannett Co. by MNG Enterprises Inc., a Denver-based newspaper group backed by a hedge fund, stoked fears that an industry already reeling from years of cutbacks could be in for even more severe cost-cutting as financial owners become bigger players. MNG Enterprises, which is better known in…
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Denver Post parent makes bid for Gannett, largest US newspaper chain
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A hedge-fund-backed media group known for buying up struggling local papers and cutting costs has made an offer for USA Today publisher Gannett Co. Inc. MNG Enterprises Inc., one of the largest newspaper chains in the country, has quietly built a 7.5% position in Gannett’s stock and is urging the McLean, Va., publisher to review…
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Conservative communications maven Jonathan Lockwood shakes up Oregon statehouse with pugnacious approach
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After cutting a provocative path though Colorado’s political scene for half a decade, conservative spinmeister Jonathan Lockwood pulled up stakes and decamped for a strange land with strange customs, a place unaccustomed to his rapid-fire, unrelenting attacks on liberals and his take-no-prisoners approach to making a point – a place called Oregon. Unlike swing-state Colorado,…
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Coffman, Carroll spar over debate schedule
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A dispute about debates between Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman and his challenger, state Sen. Morgan Carroll, ramped up this week as both sides charged the other with ducking confrontations, all while framing the controversy in what has become familiar invective in the hotly contested 6th Congressional District race. As things stand, the two candidates…
