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Founded in 1847 and historically the great Republican-leaning paper of the Midwest. Since 2021 it has been owned by Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund known for aggressive cost reduction across its newspaper holdings.
Its editorial page remains one of the few in a major American city that is not reliably liberal. The dominant criticism is not about its politics but about its resources: newsroom staffing has fallen sharply under Alden, and a paper covering a city of that size with a reduced staff covers less of it.