New York Times
Salon.com had been in negotiations to be sold to Newser, report Andrew Ross Sorkin and Jeremy Peters, but the talks faltered just after The Huffington Post sold itself to AOL for $315 million. Salon board members questioned whether they were selling for too low a price.

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