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Guardian Journalists Strike Over Potential Sale of Sister Paper The Observer
Journalists at The Guardian have gone on strike over the potential sale of its Sunday paper The Observer.
It emerged earlier this year that the Scott Trust is considering a sale of The Observer to the relatively nascent Tortoise Media, which was founded in 2019 by editor James Harding as a longform journalism and podcast platform. The news has caused consternation in the U.K., with leading figures including Bill Nighy, Hugh Grant and Ralph Fiennes signing an open letter decrying the deal, which they described as “disastrous.” The Observer’s longtime editor Paul Webster, who retired last month, also criticized the sale, saying it would “severly damage the reputation of the Scott Trust and threaten the future of the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper.”
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