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What LA Times owner's purchase of UT San Diego could mean for SoCal news
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May 8, 2015
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What LA Times owner's purchase of UT San Diego could mean for SoCal news
As newspapers continue to struggle with fewer readers and less revenue, publishers have been looking to consolidation as a way to combine efforts and cut costs.
It is always difficult to know how the Times is performing financially, because Tribune Publishing doesn’t normally break out results for its individual papers.
The Los Angeles Times Building in downtown Los Angeles, California on July 10, 2013.
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As newspapers continue to struggle with fewer readers and less revenue, publishers have been looking to consolidation as a way to combine efforts and cut costs.

As newspapers continue to struggle with fewer readers and less revenue, publishers have been looking to consolidation as a way to combine efforts and cut costs.

Keeping with that trend, yesterday Tribune Publishing, the parent company of the Los Angeles Times, announced it would purchase San Diego's flagship newspaper U-T San Diego.

Media industry analyst Ken Doctor joins Take Two to talk about what this consolidation could mean for the Southern California news market.