Tucson Citizen Has Two ‘Interested Buyers’

Yeah, all the staffers thought they were done and the newspaper was closing up shop. Now, they’re not. Now they’re publishing on a day-to-day basis, also described as ‘purgatory’:

The Citizen reports:

The Tucson Citizen will be published on a day-to-day basis while negotiations are completed with two interested buyers, according to an executive with the Citizen’s corporate owner.

Citizen interim Editor Jennifer Boice and Tucson Newspapers CEO Mike Jameson gave the news to Citizen staffers after speaking by phone with Robert J. Dickey, president of U.S. Community Publishing for Gannett Co. Inc.

Boice told employees that Dickey said negotiations are in progress with two “very interested buyers” and those negotiations will not be completed by March 21, the date Gannett had set to close the Citizen if it hadn’t sold.

Via Romenesko

Previously, Arizona’s Oldest Newspaper, Tucson Citizen to Fold

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