US – Corporate owners of major newspaper chain censor editorial content about their financial cuts, send newsrooms into disarray

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned by reports that hedge fund Alden Global Capital, which owns newspaper conglomerate Digital First Media, is attempting to control the editorial content of its newspapers in order to prevent its staffers from publicizing severe financial cutbacks, with serious consequences for press freedom in the communities served by these local papers. Editorial page editor Chuck Plunkett of the Colorado-based newspaper Denver Post resigned on May 3 after leadership at the paper’s parent company, Digital First Media (DFM),

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