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LA Weekly Bought by Shadowy Group of Investors, Who Fired Nearly All Staff Members

HeadlineDec 08, 2017

In California, advertisers are pulling their business with the award-winning alternative newspaper LA Weekly, after it was bought by a shadowy group of male investors, who fired every editor and all but one writer on staff last week. The LA Weekly is a long-running, left-leaning newspaper in Los Angeles. But the new owners, who refused to even reveal themselves at the time of the mass firing, are conservative investors based in Orange County, some of whom have donated heavily to the Republican Party.

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