Staff Pick
Best paper even Warren Buffett wouldn’t buy
Tampa Tribune
by Mitch Perry
This past spring the “Oracle of Omaha” purchased Media General’s newspaper chain in the Southeast. Or most of it. His Berkshire Hathaway group paid $140 million and made $445 million in loans to Media General in return for its newspapers — everything except the Tampa Tribune and the company’s 18 network-affiliated TV stations.
