All entries tagged: Platinum Equity
The promise of a newspaper’s investigative spinoff
The latest edition of American Journalism Review has an in-depth piece on the thinking behind the San Diego Union-Tribune’s willingness to spin off (though that’s not the official phraseology) its investigative team as an independent nonprofit, the Watchdog Institute.
Rather than wait for the ax to fall on her four-person team, investigative editor Lorie Hearn did [...]
Why NYT Co. might not be as quick to sell the Globe as you might think
I drive a 1996 Honda Civic, and I love it. Why? It costs me virtually nothing. It gets 30 m.p.g., we paid it off years ago, and I carry no collision coverage. I could sell it, but I won’t. It’s running great, and it probably will last several more years.
What does this have to do [...]
