TampaBay.comCEO
Ben Eason lost control of the company his parents founded in 1972 to the New York hedge fund from whom he borrowed $30 million to buy the Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper. Atalaya won the auction with a $5 million cash bid. "I've started three newspapers in my time," says Eason. "I'll start a fourth." || Creative Loafing's
report.
