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Jan 02 2008 12:00am EDT

Bloomberg-'NYT' Merger in 2009?

Former Wall Street Journal editor Paul Steiger penned a long piece about the history and present difficulties of the newspaper industry over the long weekend. Tucked way down near the end of the 3,000-word story is this little not-quite-prediction about what The New York Times might do to fend off competition from a Rupert Murdoch-enhanced Journal:

Pure conjecture: Assuming that New York Mayor and Bloomberg LP owner Mike Bloomberg isn't U.S. president-elect a year from now, would he and Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. consider putting their two enterprises together?
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