AllThingsD » 92nd Street Y http://allthingsd.com Thu, 24 May 2012 21:32:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Video: Eli Broad Explains Why He Wants to Save the Los Angeles Times http://allthingsd.com/20090312/video-eli-broad-explains-why-he-wants-to-save-the-la-times/ http://allthingsd.com/20090312/video-eli-broad-explains-why-he-wants-to-save-the-la-times/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:51:12 +0000 Peter Kafka http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=5178 eli-broad-youtubeWhy exactly does Eli Broad want to save his hometown Los Angeles Times? He explains in this video clip, an excerpt from his appearance earlier this week at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y.

As I noted before, Broad is a billionaire who can afford to bail out the paper if he really wants to. But it has become harder for him than it would have six months ago.

Forbes’s newest billionaire ranking pegs his net work at $5.2 billion, down $1.5 billion from last September.

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