Local Publisher Tried To Buy, And Save, The Washington Blade
The owner of the Falls Church News-Press tried to buy the Blade from its bankrupt parent company, the Washington City Paper reports.
According to a press release issued today, Nicholas F. Benton, who has published the FCNP since 1991, won a bid in September to purchase the assets of the Blade “for purposes of a seamless perpetuation of the nation’s oldest gay community newspaper.” Benton says the sale process continued through November 6, and then he didn’t hear anything until yesterday, when he was informed the paper had been shuttered.
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