Philadelphia’s two largest newspapers are to be sold via a private, ascending-bid auction starting at $77 million, the Delaware Court of Chancery has ruled.

The court ordered a private auction, despite the objections of one-half of the papers’ ownership group, because a public auction would be expensive, time-consuming and generate little benefit for investors who own membership shares in the papers’ managing entity.

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