{"id":67541,"date":"2019-01-16T01:21:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T06:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=67541"},"modified":"2019-01-16T01:21:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T06:21:32","slug":"a-hedge-fund-known-for-milking-newspapers-takes-aim-at-gannett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2019\/a-hedge-fund-known-for-milking-newspapers-takes-aim-at-gannett.html","title":{"rendered":"A Hedge Fund Known for \u2018Milking\u2019 Newspapers Takes Aim at Gannett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) A few dozen newspaper employees staged a protest last May outside the New York City office of their owner &#8212; the hedge fund Alden Global Capital. Carrying signs that read \u201cInvest or Sell Now,\u201d the journalists chanted, \u201cHey Hey, Ho Ho, Alden Global\u2019s got to go!\u201d Eight months later, Alden Global isn\u2019t gone. In fact, the company wants to expand its newspaper empire even further: On Monday, it made a hostile bid to buy Gannett Co., owner of USA Today and many local newspapers, for $1.36 billion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-01-14\/hedge-fund-known-for-milking-newspapers-takes-aim-at-gannett\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) A few dozen newspaper employees staged a protest last May outside the New York City office of their owner &#8212; the hedge fund Alden Global Capital. Carrying signs that read \u201cInvest or Sell Now,\u201d the journalists chanted, \u201cHey Hey, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67542,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67541\/revisions\/67542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}