Ink-stained reunion after years of digital upheaval in journalism
New York's Daily News gets a new owner but some wonder how it will be run
New York
THE world has changed since the last time one of New York's legendary tabloids was controlled by the company that owns the Chicago Tribune.
That tabloid, the Daily News, was founded 98 years ago by a grandson of the publisher who had founded the Tribune. But the Tribune Co sold the Daily News in 1991, so the announcement on Monday that the Daily News had been acquired by Tronc, as the publisher of the Chicago Tribune now calls itself, had a back-to-the-future sound.
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