This month will see the end of eight weekly newspapers published by Southwest News Media in Minnesota.
Such closings are nothing new. But these are drawing harsh local commentary. “Where is the outrage?,” asks Reed Anfinson, publisher of the Swift County Monitor-News in Benson, Minnesota, in an article in the Star Tribune.
Anfinson argues, “Their demise due to corporate greed was set in motion … by Denver-based company MediaNews Group, which is owned by the soulless hedge fund Alden Global Capital.”
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