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Newspaper negotiations conducted with secrecy
Posted Mar 7, 2012
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The current owners of Philadelphia’s two major newspapers are mulling over bids from at least two groups that would like to buy the papers. The sale is being conducted with much secrecy. Temple journalism professor Chris Harper said, “A news organization is protected by the First Amendment and clearly gets a lot of advantages as a result, so one would expect that a news organization should be more forthcoming and less secretive.”