Mediagazer: DOJ reopens review of deal between Digital First Media's Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News (Dean Starkman/Columbia Journalism Review)

12:00 AM ET, April 26, 2014

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DOJ reopens review of deal between Digital First Media's Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News — A newspaper deal threatens Utah's main non-Mormon-owned daily, critics say — And the Justice Department is looking into it — A deal reached last fall between Salt Lake City's two main newspapers …

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