Rick Edmonds

media business analyst at Poynter

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Media business analyst at the Poynter Institute; former Managing Editor of the St. Petersburg Times in Florida

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The Wall Street Journal reported that Patrick Soon-Shiong is looking to sell the LA Times and its sister paper The San Diego Union-Tribune, though he has repeatedly denied that and…

For LA Times and its billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, an uncertain future lies ahead

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