Today, 150 journalists from the Denver Post, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and the Mercury News, and 49 other smaller papers who are accustomed to reporting the news will become the news, as they protest the owner of their papers papers in what some have called “a fight for their lives.” Alden Global Capital has been surprisingly silent about its own employees calling it out for alleged “predatory business practices.”

Alden, which did not respond to The Beast’s attempts for an interview, is a hedge fund which has been demanding staff cuts to its papers around the …