San Francisco Chronicle
Federal judge
Susan Illston says new evidence of a proposed advertising sales and newspaper distribution collaboration between the companies has increased "the likelihood that the transactions at issue here were anti-competitive and illegal." She says she's "not convinced that an agreement between the only two competitors in a market, to share distribution networks, does not raise serious competitive questions." || Related
Sacramento Bee and
Mercury News stories.
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Bay Guardian: "Who knows what newspapers around here will look like in another few months? How much fat can they trim before they start hitting bone? They aren't just cutting staff. The Bay Area's newspaper establishment is now outsourcing work to circumvent those pesky labor unions."
(SFBG)