Bidders are preparing their final bids for a hodgepodge collection of small and large newspapers from coast to coast. Will another company — or private equity — swoop them all up as one?
Will America’s third-largest newspaper group sell as a single unit or a collection of smaller clusters? And what would lead someone to buy newspapers in 2014, anyway?
The company, including flagship papers in Los Angeles and Chicago, now stands on its own. Can it navigate the next stage of its life — potentially into a new owner?
Project Thunderdome is dead and DFM will soon put its newspapers on the auction block. Are the new rounds of investors who bought into newspapers over the past half-decade getting antsy?
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APA
Doctor, K. (2014, Mar. 20). The newsonomics of selling Cars.com. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/03/the-newsonomics-of-selling-cars-com/
Chicago
Doctor, Ken. "The newsonomics of selling Cars.com." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 20, 2014. Accessed April 18, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/03/the-newsonomics-of-selling-cars-com/.
Wikipedia
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