Berkshire Hathaway has completed its purchase of The Omaha World-Herald, the hometown newspaper of the company chairman, Warren E. Buffett. The deal, announced Nov. 30, for $150 million and the assumption of $50 million in debt, ended one of the newspaper industry’s last sizable employee ownership plans. A spokesman for the newspaper, Joel Long, said on Monday that the deal closed on Friday. When the deal was announced, Mr. Buffett said The World-Herald “delivers solid profits and is one of the best-run newspapers in America.”
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