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Online newspaper Alaska Dispatch buys Anchorage Daily News for $34 million
ap ^ | April 8, 2014 | MARK THIESSEN

Posted on 04/16/2014 6:47:00 PM PDT by george76

Alaska Dispatch Publishing LLC, the parent company of the online newspaper the Alaska Dispatch, will purchase the Anchorage Daily News from The McClatchy Co. for $34 million. The sale is expected to close in May.

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Billionaire Warren Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 31 small- and medium-sized daily newspapers. It has bought most of those newspapers since 2011 at bargain prices. Including weekly papers and other publications, Berkshire owns 70 newspapers.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaskadispatch; anchoragedaily; berkshirehathaway; mediabias; newspaper; newspapers; palin; warrenbuffett

1 posted on 04/16/2014 6:47:00 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Liberal trash.


2 posted on 04/16/2014 7:07:19 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: george76

Was Alaska Dispatch the online rag that dug up dirt on Sarah Palin at every opportunity?


3 posted on 04/16/2014 7:07:25 PM PDT by CedarDave (CNN: The "Crisis News Channel" - all Flight 370 hysteria and global warming blather, all the time.)
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We really do not need another newspaper spewing Buffet’s liberal crap.

He is one of those, “I got mine and the rest of you stay in your place as serfs.”


4 posted on 04/16/2014 7:25:28 PM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: CedarDave

No, they made stuff up - or published “rumors”

The rich, bored wife of a billionaire buys the local rag.

I don’t see it getting any better....


5 posted on 04/16/2014 8:35:49 PM PDT by ASOC (What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
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