The Same Tech Companies Killing Print Ads Are Buying Print Ads

  • Netflix and Google still covet space in the New York Times
  • ‘There’s irony in that,’ newspaper’s operating chief says

Photographer: Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg

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Tech giants like Google and Facebook Inc. are threatening the media business by capturing a growing share of advertising dollars.

Yet many of those companies, which made fortunes selling highly targeted online ads, have become big buyers of a decidedly low-tech medium: print advertising.