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Speaker Pelosi Supports SF Area Newspaper Mergers

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who represents San Francisco, is urging the Justice Department to consider giving San Francisco Bay Area papers "more leeway to merge or consolidate business operations to stay afloat." Pelosi released her two-page letter to the Justice Department after meeting in her Capitol office last week with the San Francisco Chronicle editor-at-Large Phil Bronstein and Hearst general counsel Eve Burton, where they discussed the future of the paper and federal media shield legislation. Hearst has said it may have to close the San Francisco Chronicle because of financial difficulties.

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