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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 1:51pm on Thursday, August 20th, 2009 | Time Inc. is buying real estate in Detroit, the Detroit Free Press reported on August 16, 2009:
"The buzz along the fancy part of Parker Avenue this summer was about the buyer of the handsome stucco house that had been vacant for more than two years.
Word on the street was the buyer was a literate and powerful New Yorker with global connections and staggering wealth. Sure enough, the buyer's current address, according to real estate records, turned out to be 1271 Avenue of the Americas, a Manhattan skyscraper.
Parker Avenue, meet your new neighbor: Time Inc., the legendary media colossus.
In a highly unusual decision for a news organization, Time has purchased a 95-year-old house in Detroit's historic West Village neighborhood, next to Indian Village. The home will serve as a base of operations for months -- and perhaps a couple of years -- as Time's various publications cast a unique spotlight on Detroit and chronicle its increasingly desperate struggle to reinvent itself.
A Time reporter has told acquaintances he will move in before the end of summer. People familiar with the project said news coverage would be provided by staffers from several of Time Inc.'s more than 100 magazines, which include Time, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Money, People, Essence and Entertainment Weekly."
The full story:
http://www.freep.com/article/20090816/COL27/908160442
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:11pm on Monday, May 25th, 2009 | The Detroit Free Press won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting on April 20, 2009:
Awarded to the Detroit Free Press Staff, and notably Jim Schaefer and M. L. Elrick, for their uncovering of a pattern of lies by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick that included denial of a sexual relationship with his female chief of staff, prompting an investigation of perjury that eventually led to jail terms for the two officials."
The prize is awarded for a distinguished example of reporting on significant issues of local concern, demonstrating originality and community expertise, in print or online or both, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:14pm on Thursday, April 30th, 2009 | In April 2009, the Detroit Free Press promoted Paul Anger to editor and publisher of the newspaper. Previously he was the paper's editor and vice president of news.
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:24am on Friday, April 3rd, 2009 | The two major Detroit newspapers now have limited home delivery, as the Wall Street Journal noted on March 31, 2009:
"Under a new distribution model announced in December, Gannett Co.'s Free Press and MediaNews Group's News this week limited their home delivery to Thursday and Friday, while only the Free Press arrives Sunday.
On other days, the two papers will publish an abbreviated print paper sold only on the newsstand and a replica electronic edition available via the Internet.
On Monday, the two dailies marked the occasion by distributing about a half-million copies of the abbreviated papers free at 18,000 locations throughout Michigan."
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 2:49pm on Monday, December 15th, 2008 | On December 13, 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported that the two major Detroit newspapers may cut back on home delivery:
"Detroit Media Partnership L.P., which operates the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News, is expected to announce next week that it will cease home delivery of the papers' print editions on most days of the week, according to people familiar with the company's thinking.
Detroit Media has not made a final decision, these people said. But the leading scenario set to be unveiled Tuesday calls for the Free Press, the 20th largest U.S. newspaper by weekday circulation, and the News to end home delivery on all but the most lucrative days -- Thursday, Friday and Sunday. On the other days, the company would sell single copies of abbreviated print editions at newsstands and direct readers to the papers' expanded digital editions.
The Free Press, owned by Gannett Co., and the News, owned by MediaNews Group, are operated by Detroit Media under a so-called joint operating agreement.
The Free Press and the News would be the first dailies in a major metropolitan market to curtail home delivery and drastically scale back their print editions. Other newspapers are contemplating similar moves in response to the erosion of advertising and the rising costs of printing and delivery. In October the Christian Science Monitor said it will stop printing a daily newspaper in April and move instead to an online version with a weekly print product."
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