from nobel peace prize resilient, the journalist maria ressa from the philippines, about that government s hostile treatment of the press. in america, we have a different force threatening journalism. vulture funds. secretive hedge funds are swooping in and buying news entities. the atlantic writes about the devastating effect. the model is simple, gut the staff, sell the real estate, jack up subscription prices, and wring as much cash as possible out of the enterprise until readers cancel their subscriptions and the newspaper folds. one example, alden, is a name and a pretty picture of a forest. that s it. no link to take you to another page. doesn t tell you alden global