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    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 2:40PM 8/17/2009
    Add Reader's Digest Association to the list of media companies that are going to need a detour through bankruptcy to make it through the recession. The Pleasantville, N.Y.-based publisher is embarking on a Chapter 11 restructuring process that will allow it to convert some $1.6 billion in debt...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 1:00PM 6/19/2009
    Remember a little earlier today when we linked to a New York Times story about how Reader's Digest Association was moving in a "decided conservative direction" to court red-state religious types? Not so much, it turns out. RDA executive Eva Dillon just sent out the following memo denying the...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 11:00AM 6/19/2009
    Mass-market print magazines are in rapid decline. Could cable news offer a model for renewed growth? Reader's Digest Association thinks it might. The Chappaqua, N.Y.-based publisher, whose name is virtually synonymous with broad, inoffensive general-interest content, is hoping to reverse its...