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Chicago Tribune newsroom employees picket outside the newspapers Freedom Center newsroom and printing plant Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune is being sued, Thursday, May 16, by some of its staffers, who say they and other women and Black journalists are being paid less than their white male counterparts. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Chicago Tribune staffers’ unequal pay lawsuit claims race and sex discrimination

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The Baltimore Sun front page is seen, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in Baltimore. David D. Smith, executive chairman of the Sinclair broadcasting chain and an active contributor to conservative causes, has bought Baltimore Sun Media from the investment firm Alden Global Capital. The purchase price was not disclosed. (AP Photo/Lea Skene)

The Baltimore Sun is returning to local ownership under Sinclair’s David D. Smith

By David Bauder and Lea Skene - Associated Press

A woman votes in the presidential primary election at the Summit View Church of the Nazarene in Kansas City, Mo., on March 10, 2020. Newspaper endorsements for candidates are fading away, a victim of both the news industry's troubles and the era's bitter politics. Earlier this month, newspapers controlled by hedge fund Alden Global Capital said they would no longer endorse candidates for president, governor and U.S. Senate. They include dozens of dailies like the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Boston Herald, Orlando Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Once key, U.S. newspaper editorial endorsements fade away

By David Bauder

FILE - In this Monday, April 25, 2016, file photo, Chicago Tribune and other newspapers are displayed at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Shareholders of Tribune Publishing, one of the country’s largest newspaper chains, will vote Friday, May 21, 2021, on whether to be acquired by a hedge fund that already owns one-third of the company and favors aggressive cost-cutting to boost profits. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

Hedge fund Alden in hunt for another big newspaper chain

By Tali Arbel - Associated Press

Alternative bidders emerge for newspaper chain Tribune

By TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 12, 2006, file photo, flags wave near the Chicago Tribune Tower in downtown Chicago. Newspaper publisher Tribune has agreed to be sold to Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund known for cutting costs and eliminating newsroom jobs, in a deal valued at $630 billion. Tribune Publishing Co., which owns the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, the Baltimore Sun and other newspapers, said Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, it has agreed to sell its shares to Alden for $17.25 apiece, in cash. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Tribune agrees to purchase by hedge fund for $630 million

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

The Baltimore Sun to be purchased by nonprofit

Associated Press

Celsius Holdings, Tribune rise; Carnival, Marathon Oil fall

Associated Press

In this April 25, 2016 file photo, workers walk past the front entrance of the Hartford Courant building in Hartford, Conn. Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is now the largest shareholder of Tribune Publishing, the company that owns the Hartford Courant, the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and New York Daily News. Tribune says Alden, a hedge fund known for layoffs and slashing costs at newspapers it acquires, purchased the 25% stake from former Tribune chairman Michael Ferro. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Hedge fund Alden becomes Tribune’s largest shareholder

By TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

FILE - This April 21, 2018, file photo shows the front page of the Perspective section of The Denver Post from Sunday, April 8, in Denver. The Post's Editorial Page Editor Chuck Plunkett, who oversaw an editorial critical of budget and staff cuts made by the newspaper's New York-based hedge fund owners, said he resigned Thursday, May 3, after management rejected a second editorial lamenting Alden Global Capital’s behavior. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Denver Post editorial page editor resigns amid staff cuts

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI - Associated Press

This April 21, 2018, photo shows the front page of the Perspective section of The Denver Post from Sunday, April 8, 2018, in Denver. The Post's cry for help in the form of an editorial pleading for new ownership resonated nationally. Its owner is called Digital First Media. It is controlled by a New York-based Hedge Fund known as Alden Global Capital. It has made deep cuts in several newspapers across the country. The Post's editorial has also led Colorado business, government and philanthropic leaders to start discussing if they could buy the Post or start an alternative publication to take its place. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Editor who posted editorial on blog without permission fired

Associated Press

FILE - In this April 10, 2017, file photo, the Salt Lake Tribune Editor Matt Canham breaks out the champagne after their 2017 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting was announced, in Salt Like City. The Tribune newsroom takes up one floor of the building that bears its name, overlooking snow-capped mountains and the arena where the Utah Jazz play. Once a Digital First property that dealt with staff reductions and feared closure, the paper was sold to a prominent local family in 2016. Since then, its reporters received their first raise in a decade and won a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)

In Denver, trying to put a price on the value of a newspaper

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and BRADY MCCOMBS - Associated Press

Report says Philly newspaper co. is again for sale

By MARYCLAIRE DALE - Associated Press