The co-owners of the newspaper’s parent company, Freedom Communications, embarked on an ambitious drive to bulk up the printed newspaper in a digital age. But the experiment failed, and questions about their journalism ethics dogged them.

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The co-owners of the newspaper’s parent company, Freedom Communications, embarked on an ambitious drive to bulk up the printed newspaper in a digital age. But the experiment failed, and questions about their journalism ethics dogged them.