Alaska Dispatch to purchase Anchorage Daily News
SEAFOOD.COM NEWS - April 14, 2014
In what amounts to a stunning media shakeup in the 49th state, the still-young online news organization Alaska Dispatch announced on Tuesday it has signed a deal with the nation’s second-largest newspaper chain to purchase the Anchorage Daily News, a 68-year-old publication with two Pulitzer Prizes.
The $34 million agreement — expected to close in May — between Alaska Dispatch Publishing and the California-based McClatchy Company may be a first in an industry buffeted by rapid change, with a digital news site that prided itself as a lean symbol of journalism’s future taking on the much larger and traditional operations of Alaska’s largest newspaper, printing press and all.
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