This says the Newhouse family still owns it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications
I haven’t seen anyone report it as a story, but it’s true. Someone should do a story on it.
Here are a few example. Different papers. All the same story. All the same day. All owned by Advance Publications (Reddit’s majority shareholder)
NJO.com https://www.nj.com/news/2020/02/njcom-removing-comments-from-site-on-thursday.html
Syracuse.com https://www.syracuse.com/news/2020/02/syracusecom-to-end-reader-comments-on-website-beginning-thursday.html
Cleveland.com https://www.cleveland.com/news/2020/02/open-commenting-at-clevelandcom-is-going-away-heres-why.html
Staten Island Advance https://www.silive.com/news/2020/02/silive-to-end-commenting-on-website-beginning-thursday.html
Someone actually charted mentions of “woke” words in The NY Times over time.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/the-nytimes-is-woke.html