It was announced today that that The Brooklyn Paper, a 31-year-old independent newspaper, has been purchased by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. TBP’s editor Gersh Kuntzman told the Observer that the people from News Corp “don’t want the product to change… they love the product. And the product is fantastic.”
Observer: In 2006, Mr. Murdoch purchased a rival chain of papers, The Courier-Life chain, which publishes 12 papers in Brooklyn. Last year, when Gawkerspeculated that the Paper was in financial trouble, Mr. Kuntzman was dismissive of that report—and of Mr. Murdoch’s chain of papers.
“The Brooklyn Paper, which just won ‘Newspaper of the Year’ from a major national trade group, is certainly not going out of business,” he told Gothamist. “Brooklyn needs us too much right now, what with local papers being snapped up by billionaire moguls who have no interest in local news except maximizing classified ad sales. Has Rupert Murdoch even BEEN to Brooklyn? His reporters don’t know the territory, either.”
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