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March 12, 2009
Good buy! The Brooklyn Paper joins News Corp.
The Brooklyn Paper
That didn't take long. The Brooklyn Paper, which was acquired by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation earlier this week, is relocating. To Forest City Ratner's Metrotech.
“We are extremely excited to be adding The Brooklyn Paper to our group,” said News Corporation Senior Vice President Les Goodstein. “We bought The Paper because we admire its attitude, its flair and its outstanding design. And we don’t intend to change that.”
The deal was finalized last week, and was first reported on Tuesday by the New York Observer.
In Brooklyn, the Community Newspaper Group also includes the Courier Life chain. Both Courier Life and The Brooklyn Paper will soon be housed in the same office in the Metrotech complex Downtown, Goodstein said.
NoLandGrab: We would cite the chilling effect on a newspaper covering Atlantic Yards of having Bruce Ratner as one's landlord, but honestly, the Courier-Life chain's coverage of the developer's megaproject was equally abysmal both before and after their relocation to Metrotech. For now, we'll give the BP the benefit of the doubt, and urge them to do some dumpster-diving during their lunch hours — you never know what eye-opening document might accidentally end up in Ratner's trash.
Posted by eric at March 12, 2009 6:10 PM