Los Angeles Daily News

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A question I asked a few years ago was this (and never got an answer): If a newspaper group headed by a medium-sized paper buys a group that has a paper bigger than your biggest, which becomes the flagship? I.E. The Orange County Register was always bigger and better than the L.A. Daily News. But the LADN buys the group headed by OCR. Who's the boss?

If I remember right, when Lee Enterprises bought the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Quad-City Times in Davenport, Iowa, remained the "flagship" paper.

Of course, that ship took on a ton of water (aka debt) just before the Great Recession kicked in, and the Lee layoffs were awful.