Tribune journalists react to the 'gut punch' announcement of hedge fund acquisition
CNN
Tuesday's news that Alden Global Capital is buying the rest of Tribune Publishing and taking the newspaper owner private prompted some anxious reactions from newsroom staffers.
"Gut punch." That's what Daniela Altimari wrote in reaction to Tuesday's news that Alden Global Capital, a widely feared hedge fund, is buying the rest of Tribune Publishing and taking the newspaper owner private. Altimari is a statehouse reporter at one of Tribune's news outlets, The Hartford Courant, which has the distinction of being the oldest continuously published newspaper in America. Altimari spent the day doing what great local reporters do -- monitoring a legislative hearing about vaccinations, and reporting back to the public. Then she spent the evening reading and absorbing the Alden "gut punch."The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, two sources familiar with the matter said Saturday, ahead of a September 15 withdrawal deadline agreed to by the two countries.
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