{"id":26936,"date":"2019-02-05T20:43:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T01:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=26936"},"modified":"2019-02-05T20:43:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T01:43:15","slug":"gannett-declines-to-be-purchased-by-hedge-fund-owned-digital-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2019\/02\/gannett-declines-to-be-purchased-by-hedge-fund-owned-digital-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Gannett declines to be purchased by hedge fund-owned Digital First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2019\/02\/04\/gannett-rejects-mng-enterprises-digital-first-media-proposal\/2765975002\/\">Gannett rejects takeover offer from MNG\/Digital First Media<\/a> &#8211; <em>USA Today<\/em><br \/>\nI worked for Gannett (though the part I was in became Tegna) for most of my career, moving on about 5 years ago. <\/p>\n<p>I still own stock, care about former colleagues and journalism in general. So, I spent 30 seconds or so on LinkedIn mentioning I was pleased they didn&#8217;t get bought out by a company eve more notorious for cost-cutting than Gannett.<\/p>\n<p>It went viral &#8212; over 16,000 views in less than 36 hours. Go figure. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/embed\/feed\/update\/urn:li:share:6498204411209281536\" height=\"347\" width=\"504\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, were was this kind of attention (of even 2-3% of it!) when I unemployed?! Let&#8217;s see how this post does.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, I hope Gannett avoids DFM and finds a way to reinvest in their newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent 30 seconds on a LinkedIn post about Gannett declining DigitalFirst&#8217;s takeover bid and it went viral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-whiskey-tango-foxtrot"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gannett declines to be purchased by hedge fund-owned Digital First - William F. 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