Mystery surrounds new owner of Las Vegas paper

The publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal removed quotes from a Thursday night article about the newspaper’s sale that questioned its new owner’s decision to remain anonymous, according to a newsroom source.
Around midnight Thursday, publisher Jason Taylor had editors remove a quote from Michael Schroeder, manager for News + Media Capital Group LLC, the undisclosed financial backers taking over the paper. In the original version, Schroeder, who also runs four community papers as president and CEO of Central Connecticut Publishing, was quoted telling Review-Journal staffers at a Thursday meeting that they shouldn’t worry about the identities of the owners.
The original article also included quotes from editor Michael Hengel expressing concerns about the secretive ownership arrangement.
Taylor did not respond to requests for comment from The Huffington Post. Hengel also did not respond.
The quotes appeared briefly online, but were later removed from the version of the story on the paper’s website. The original version also appeared in early print editions that had already gone to press, according to a copy obtained by HuffPost.
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