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Only days before The Post sale, , The New York Times accepted an offer for $70 million from the Boston Red Sox\u2019s principal owner to buy The Boston Globe \u2013 a 95% decline in value from when The New York Times first bought the Globe in 1993 for $1.1 billion. The last time The Washington Post was sold was back in 1933 (for $825,000), but its current selling price of $250 million is even less than the $295 million the Times paid for the weekly Worcester Telegram &amp; Gazette in 1999. Here we offer a snapshot of recent newspaper sales and what they tell us about depreciation in the industry.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/09\/PJ_13_08_06_newsSales_0.png\"><img data-dominant-color=\"ebebeb\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #ebebeb;\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" class=\"wp-image-37153 not-transparent\" alt=\"PJ_13_08_06_newsSales_0\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/09\/PJ_13_08_06_newsSales_0.png\" ><\/a><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to The Washington Post, several other major newspapers have recently been purchased, with the sales prices revealing a heavy devaluation of the product. Only days before The Post sale, , The New York Times accepted an offer for $70 million from the Boston Red Sox\u2019s principal owner to buy The Boston Globe \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sub_headline":"","sub_title":"","_prc_public_revisions":[],"_ppp_expiration_hours":0,"_ppp_enabled":false,"ai_generated_summary":"","relatedPosts":[],"reportMaterials":[],"multiSectionReport":[],"package_parts__enabled":false,"package_parts":[],"datacite_doi":"","datacite_doi_citation":"","_prc_seo_qr_attachment_id":0,"spoken_article_player_enabled":true,"displayBylines":true,"footnotes":"","prc_watchers":[],"_prc_fork_parent":0,"_prc_fork_status":"","_prc_active_fork":0},"categories":[332,349],"tags":[],"bylines":[2199],"datasets":[],"level_of_effort":[],"primary_audience":[],"information_type":[],"_post_visibility":[],"formats":[458],"_fund_pool":[],"languages":[],"regions-countries":[],"research-teams":[527],"workflow-status":[],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-88859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-industry","category-newspapers","bylines-pew-research-center-journalism-media-staff","formats-report","research-teams-journalism"],"label":false,"post_parent":88889,"word_count":125,"canonical_url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2013\/08\/07\/historic-deals-of-major-u-s-newspaper-companies\/","art_direction":false,"_embeds":[],"watchers":[],"table_of_contents":[{"id":88889,"title":"What\u2019s Behind The Washington Post Sale","slug":"whats-behind-the-washington-post-sale","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2013\/08\/07\/whats-behind-the-washington-post-sale\/","is_active":false},{"id":88879,"title":"The Newspaper Industry Overall","slug":"the-newspaper-industry-overall","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2013\/08\/07\/the-newspaper-industry-overall\/","is_active":false},{"id":88871,"title":"The Washington Post: By The Numbers","slug":"the-washington-post-by-the-numbers","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2013\/08\/07\/the-washington-post-by-the-numbers\/","is_active":false},{"id":88859,"title":"Historic Deals of Major U.S. Newspaper Companies","slug":"historic-deals-of-major-u-s-newspaper-companies","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2013\/08\/07\/historic-deals-of-major-u-s-newspaper-companies\/","is_active":true}],"report_materials":[],"report_pagination":{"current_post":{"id":88859,"title":"Historic Deals of Major U.S. Newspaper Companies","slug":"historic-deals-of-major-u-s-newspaper-companies","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2013\/08\/07\/historic-deals-of-major-u-s-newspaper-companies\/","is_active":true,"page_num":4},"next_post":null,"previous_post":{"id":88871,"title":"The Washington Post: By The Numbers","slug":"the-washington-post-by-the-numbers","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2013\/08\/07\/the-washington-post-by-the-numbers\/","is_active":false,"page_num":3},"pagination_items":[{"id":88889,"title":"What\u2019s Behind The Washington Post Sale","slug":"whats-behind-the-washington-post-sale","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2013\/08\/07\/whats-behind-the-washington-post-sale\/","is_active":false,"page_num":1},{"id":88879,"title":"The Newspaper Industry Overall","slug":"the-newspaper-industry-overall","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2013\/08\/07\/the-newspaper-industry-overall\/","is_active":false,"page_num":2},{"id":88871,"title":"The Washington Post: By The Numbers","slug":"the-washington-post-by-the-numbers","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2013\/08\/07\/the-washington-post-by-the-numbers\/","is_active":false,"page_num":3},{"id":88859,"title":"Historic Deals of Major U.S. Newspaper Companies","slug":"historic-deals-of-major-u-s-newspaper-companies","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2013\/08\/07\/historic-deals-of-major-u-s-newspaper-companies\/","is_active":true,"page_num":4}]},"parent_info":{"parent_title":"What\u2019s Behind The Washington Post Sale","parent_id":88889},"materialsOrdered":[],"chaptersOrdered":[],"partsOrdered":[],"partsEnabled":false,"datacite_doi":"","prc_seo_data":{"title":"Historic Deals of Major U.S. Newspaper Companies","description":"In addition to The Washington Post, several other major newspapers have recently been purchased, with the sales prices revealing a heavy devaluation of the product. 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