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'Boston Globe,' Boston University Revive Anti-Slavery Publication 'The Emancipator'
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The Emancipator, a short-lived abolitionist publication in the 19th century, is being revived by The Boston Globe and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research in an effort to reframe the national conversation on race. 
Two co-editors are being sought for the title, which expects to launch later this year. 
The publication will be supported by philanthropic funding to ensure it's free to the public, the founders say.
Also being planned is a newsletter called Unbound. This was the name of an abolitionist newspaper in Boston at the outset, NPR reports.
The launch comes at a critical time in the narrative of race in the U.S., the founders add. 
"When The Emancipator was first founded in 1820, it was very difficult for people to believe that slavery, 45 years later, would be no more, just as I think there are many people today who can't imagine there could be a nation without racism and inequality," states Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, co-founder of The Emancipator and founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.  
Kendi contnues: "This reimagined platform will marry the best of scholarship and journalism to analyze, comment and seek truth about the racial problems of our time." 
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Legislator Challenges Alden Takeover Of 'The Hartford Courant' With Bill Mandating State Influence
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A Connecticut legislator, upset over the pending takeover of The Hartford Courant by Alden Global Capital, has introduced a bill that would give the state a role in the newspaper’s finances, according to a Courant story.

However, the bill is being opposed by the newspaper’s editor in chief.

Alden, a hedge fund known for merciless cost-cutting, announced it is acquiring Tribune Publishing, owner of several papers, including the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily NewsHartford Courant and numerous other newspapers, for $630 million. Newsrooms are nervous about possible staff cuts. 

The Courant issue came up in a hearing this week in the legislature. 

The bill introduced by Sen. Matt Lesser (D-Middletown) would give the state Attorney General and readers who have subscribed to the paper for a year the ability to mount court challenges to moves that are “not in the public interest,” the Courant reports.

In addition, it would prevent Alden from incurring debt or issuing dividends that are  not in the public interest, a move to prevent the wringing of cash out of the Courant, the paper continues.

However, the bill is opposed on First Amendment grounds by Courant publisher and editor in chief Andrew Julien.

“The founders understood that democracy required a free and open exchange of ideas — and that the single greatest threat to that was the potential for government interference,” Julien said in written testimony, according to the Courant.

Giving the Attorney General or the courts the ability to decide if a paper is acting in the public interest “undermines that fundamental tenet,” Julien argued.

But Lesser contends the Courant, which was founded in 1764, has a history of legislative involvement, starting with the granting of a business charter in 1887 and revised several times, most recently in 1951.

Another type of challenge may be coming from Stewart W. Bainum Jr.,  who controls the nonprofit group that signed a nonbinding agreement to acquire The Baltimore Sun and other Tribune Publishing properties in Maryland.

Bainum, the chairman of Choice Hotels International, may put up a bid for Tribune Publishing. He is personally willing to commit $100 million if he can interest other investors.  

 

This disruption took place as Bainum and Alden were butting heads over the operating agreements for shared back office operations for the Maryland papers, The Baltimore Sun reports.  

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