 A deal that would have resulted in a 630 million sale of Tribune Publishing Company NASDAQ: TPCO has reportedly hit a snag as a new prospective buyer has made his interest known in the company. What Happened: According to a New York Times report sourced from three anonymous people with knowledge of the matter, the hedge fund Alden Global Capital planned to purchase all of the newspaper assets of Tribune Publishing and then sell the Baltimore Sun and two smaller Maryland newspapers for 65 million to a nonprofit controlled by Stewart W. 