Report: Michael Bloomberg tried to buy The New York Times
There's been speculation about former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's desire to buy The New York Times for years, but New York magazine reports that Bloomberg did, at one point, actually try to buy the Grey Lady.
A source with "direct knowledge of the conversation" told New York that in 2013, Bloomberg told Times chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. that he wanted to buy the Times. Sulzberger responded was that the paper "was not for sale."
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