US - Corporate owners of major newspaper chain censor editorial content about their financial cuts, send newsrooms into disarray
(WorldNews France)

Editorial page editor Chuck Plunkett of the Colorado-based newspaper Denver Post resigned on May 3 after leadership at the paper`s parent company, Digital First Media (DFM), refused to let him publish an editorial package accusing Alden Global Capital (AGC) of slashing funding and firing staff for its own profit. Plunkett`s departure also followed the April 25 firing of Dave Krieger, the editorial page editor for the DFM-owned Daily Camera, who self-published a piece critical of DFM and AGC after he was prevented from running it in the Camera. The financial cutbacks inflicted on DFM-owned newspapers across the nation resulted...