The proprietor of the Los Angeles Occasions mentioned Monday he would “take the paper public” within the subsequent yr.
In an interview on “The Day by day Present With Jon Stewart,” Dr. Patrick Quickly-Shiong mentioned the transfer would enable The Occasions “to be democratized and permit the general public to have possession of this paper.”
He didn’t present specifics about how the deal would work or whether or not it will contain an preliminary public supply to promote shares of the corporate or another kind of funding association.
“Whether or not you’re proper, left, Democrat, Republican, you’re an American. So the chance for us to offer a paper that’s the voices of the folks, really the voices of the folks” in vital, Quickly-Shiong informed Stewart.
“We expect over the following yr we are going to,” he mentioned. “I’m working by way of [that] with a corporation that’s placing that collectively proper now.”
Like a lot of the information business, The Occasions has confronted monetary headwinds in recent times.
In 2018, Quickly-Shiong bought the L.A. Occasions, the San Diego Union-Tribune and several other group newspapers in a $500-million deal.
The sale returned The Occasions to native management after a turbulent 18 years of possession by Chicago-based Tronc. In 2023, he offered the San Diego Union-Tribune to MediaNews Group.
Quickly-Shiong constructed his fortune by way of pioneering pharmaceutical and biotech ventures, together with most cancers remedies.
