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In an interview, Jeffrey P. Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, said he expected the newspaper to have a new “golden era” under his ownership.

Charles and David Koch, the brothers and billionaire industrialists who run Koch Industries, had concluded the acquisition was “not economically viable,” a spokeswoman said.

At Amazon.com, he has upended industries. Now he promises change at The Washington Post. If his history is a guide, he will have all the laughs.

A Securities and Exchange Commission filing stated that Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. had sold some of his publicly traded stock, but that he retained significant holdings.

The sales of three giants of the old-media world — The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and Newsweek — in as many days suggest one kind of change, but their prices suggest another.

The recent sales of The Boston Globe and The Washington Post make The New York Times the nation’s last major newspaper run by a family.

After 80 years of family control and editorial leadership by the Graham family, The Post began to change ownership Monday.

The sale continues a recent trend in the struggling newspaper industry: newspapers being returned to local owners, often at bargain-basement prices.

The newspaper was purchased by John W. Henry, principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, returning the paper to local ownership.

A fledging Web site seeks to offer South Africa the kind of journalistic fact-checking that is a fixture in America with sites like FactCheck.org.