Newsonomics: By selling to America’s worst newspaper owners, Michael Ferro ushers the vultures into Tribune

By artappraiser on Sun, 11/24/2019 - 1:35pm |

Astonishingly, history might argue that Sam Zell was only the third-worst owner in recent Tribune history.

Is it the apocalypse, or just an unreasonable facsimile?

In a week of newspaper industry drama — GateHouse’s expected takeover of Gannett and McClatchy’s unexpected move in the direction of bankruptcy — who could write a better next act than that old newspaper vaudeville duo of Michael Ferro and Heath Freeman — the two most hated figures in the business?

Just as the ink was drying on New Gannett’s birth certificate, we learned that — really? could it be true? — [....]

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https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/11/newsonomics-by-selling-to-americas-worst-newspaper-owners-michael-ferro-ushers-the-vultures-into-tribune/