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Carpenter Media’s Ominous Takeover of Local News

January 26, 2026 By Lois Parshley

In just a few years, a publisher based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has become the country’s fourth-largest newspaper operator. Some reporters wonder if it isn’t the cruelest.

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