Fortune, April 24, 2008
By David Leonard

Once it was a matter of faith in the newspaper industry that family-controlled companies like the New York Times and Virginia's Media General didn't have to fear hostile takeovers. After all, they had two classes of stock. The Times' Sulzbergers and the Bryans at Media General held Class B shares entitling them to elect 70% of their company's board members.

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