Financial player Willis Stein & Partners bought its troubl tech publisher Ziff Davis Media a little more time.

Financial player Willis Stein & Partners bought its troubl tech publisher Ziff Davis Media a little more time.

Faced with a $15 million interest payment that Ziff Davis couldn't hide alone, Chicago-based Willis Stein and the recently made known York publisher won up to a $40 million extension forward what Bart Catalane, Ziff Davis' chief operating officer and chief financial officer, said was $181 million of bank debit The extension will essentially be overlayed by Willis Stein, via buying a chunk of the debt-of which the company will immediately use $16 million. In a public filing dated Nov. 14