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Dan Kennedy says there's talk that if the business continues to deteriorate, Congress might be persuaded to adopt tax incentives so that an outfit like the Times Company would be better off transferring the Boston Globe to a foundation rather than selling it at a fire-sale price. "But things would probably have to get a lot worse before that could happen," he writes. Another possibility is that newspapers could be run like public radio stations, "but you have to be beloved for the public radio model to work,” says
Jay Rosen. "Are newspapers beloved?"
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Sulzberger could remake NYT as a non-profit trust, but... (Portfolio)
