Denver Post journalists and staff members — past and present — participated in protests Tuesday to demonstrate their frustration with the newspaper’s corporate owner.
They say cost-cutting and editorial influence by New York-based Alden Global Capital is impacting their coverage and credibility.
“This is a really big deal to see journalists protesting against their owners because it brings to the center the issue of how business interests and public interests are sometimes in conflict with each other,” said Lynn Schofield Clark, a journalism professor at the University of Denver.
The Denver Newspaper Guild spurred protests occurred at the Denver Post production facility in Adams County and Alden Capital’s headquarters in New York.
“I’ve never done this before, but I feel like if there’s one thing a journalist can fight for it’s for journalism,” business and technology reporter Tamara Chuang said. “That’s our blood.”
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