The newspaper company with the most dailies in the United States was Gannett Co. Inc as of May 2021, with 250 daily newspapers in total. Lee Enterprises ranked second with 90 daily newspapers or digital-only sites, and at the time of survey, Alden Global Capital had placed a bid to take the company over. Alden, a hedge fund headquartered in New York, owned 56 publications under Digital First Media as of May 2021, along with over 30 percent of Tribune's dailies. McClatchy is also run by a hedge fund, with Chatham Asset Management owning 66 percent of Post Media in Canada including other the National Post, Vancouver Sun, and others.
Leading holding companies of daily newspapers in the United States as of May 2021, by number of daily newspapers owned
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