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Chatham Asset Management, a hedge fund, has won the auction to buy the McClatchy newspaper chain

McClatchy owns 30 daily newspapers across the U.S., including the Miami Herald and The Kansas City Star
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The coronavirus has closed more than 50 local newsrooms across America. And counting.

At first, the pandemic cost newsrooms jobs and communities critical work. Now it’s starting to end entire newsrooms.
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The 24-hour news cycle only moved away from the coronavirus once it was clear that people would not stop fighting for racial justice.
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Dozens of foreign national Voice of America correspondents won’t have their visas extended

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