The Detroit Free Press is a daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA covering local news, sports, business, politics and community events.
The newspaper is published seven days a week.
It is one of the best American media outlets, according to Mondo Times members.
The Detroit Free Press, known informally as the "Freep," is the larger of Detroit's two major daily newspapers (the other is the Detroit News). The paper was founded in May 1831.
In the spring of 2009, The Detroit Free Press cut back from offering home delivery seven days a week to delivery three days a week, each Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The newspaper however is still published everyday of the week.
Circulation estimate: 232,696
The Detroit Free Press is one of the highest circulation newspapers in the USA.
This newspaper is owned by Gannett Company, Inc.
| Business editor: | Cindy Burton |
| Entertainment editor: | Khalil AlHajal |
| Sports editor: | Kirkland Crawford |
For Detroit Free Press contact information, see the Michigan news media contacts at EasyMediaList.com.
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-- In May 2015, editor and publisher of the Detroit Free Press, Paul Anger, retired after 10 years in Detroit and almost five decades in journalism.
Posted by Mondo Times Editors, Boulder Colorado, May 13, 2015
-- The offer, made to employees with at least 20 years experience at the Detroit News, Detroit Free Press and the Detroit Media Partnership that handles the newspapers' joint business operations, comes less than three weeks after owner Gannett Company moved the Free Press into its community publishing division.
The reassignment of the Freep, which had previously been in a separate division exempt from...
-- The move means that the Detroit Free Press, or "Freep," is now subject to the same corporate directives required of Gannett Company, Inc.'s other daily newspapers.
Previously, the Freep and USA Today had been in a separate division that was exempt from company-wide directives -- like cost-cutting measures.
Bill Shea of Crain's Detroit Business spoke with Rich Harshbarger, the Detroit Media Partnership's VP...
-- Editor Paul Anger announced to the staff of the Detroit Free Press that newsroom layoffs were likely coming down the pike, but he didn't give any further details.
That's according to Free Press editor says staff layoffs likely; no number given, published June 12, 2012 by Crain's Detroit Business:
""He said there are going to be staff cutbacks," said Free Press reporter M.L. Elrick, who noted that...
-- Caitlin Johnston, a graduate student at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, asked that question in Will Dailies Stay Daily?, published November 22, 2011 by the American Journalism Review.
Johnston cited several newspapers -- such as the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News -- that have attempted to eliminate editions that might not generate enough...Also in Michigan...
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