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Warren Buffett loves newspapers but does not know how to revive it

Warren Buffett delivered papers as a teenager and bought a lot of them for his Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate

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Warren Buffett loves newspapers. He delivered papers as a teenager and bought a lot of them for his Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate. But now the billionaire wants an outside company to manage most of them. He’s struck a deal for newspaper chain Lee Enter-prises to help oversee a news empire that stretches from New Jersey to Texas and includes Buffett’s hometown Omaha World-Herald. Lee will get a $5 million annual fee plus a share of profits above certain benchmarks.
 
That Buffett has gone from avidly buying media properties to seeking a business partner for them may not seem so surprising,