  Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 5601 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.42.168.211 |
Beginning in May, the Detroit Free Press will become the city's only Sunday newspaper when it stops publishing combined weekend editions with the Detroit News. Starting May 6, both Detroit papers will publish separate Saturday editions, and the Free Press will be the only paper publishing Sundays. Additionally, the Free Press will begin publishing local community editions that it will include in Sunday papers. http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20060228/BUS INESS07/602280355 | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 5602 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.42.168.211 |
According to the headline, I guess the News will resume Sunday publishing in June. | ||
Gumby Member Username: Gumby Post Number: 906 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 204.39.224.152 |
So this really means going from one paper on Sunday to two. Right? | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 187 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42 |
Hardly news. Knight-Ridder was losing money by publishing the Freep, so they sold it to Gannett, who in turn sold their Detroit News to the Denver Post months ago. The JOA is nearing its end. | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 782 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 69.221.34.173 |
No, Livernois. There's a new JOA. The old one was disposed of last August. | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 783 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 69.221.34.173 |
p.s. How many of you read the papers on the web? Probably a lot, or most? Your life won't change at all. The Sunday News will be on the web, as always. | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 191 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42 |
Same difference. There will be separate Sunday editions - or just one - depending upon how the Denver Post chooses. | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 784 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 69.221.34.173 |
Separate. The News' Sunday edition will be on the web. | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 785 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 69.221.34.173 |
p.s. and dude, saying the Denver Post owns the News is like saying USA Today owns the Free Press. Media News owns the Detroit News. | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 515 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 68.61.98.175 |
The deadline for this has been pushed back repeatedly, due to tech difficulties with the new presses. It's going to finally happen though. Don't try to distract Livernoisyard. Very very busy sniffing out socialism in every post. | ||
Dougw Member Username: Dougw Post Number: 988 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 136.1.1.101 |
To be extra-clear, it sounds like the the News' Sunday edition will *only* be on the web. Even though it seemed ridiculous at first, I kind of grew to like the combined FreePress/News editions on the weekends... definitely more variety in editorial opinion. | ||
Southwestmap Member Username: Southwestmap Post Number: 397 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 64.79.90.206 |
This will affect me not at all. I don't buy the local papers much any more. You can get a free copy on Sunday mornings at Big Boy. If I do buy a paper on weekdays, I always go to the gas station on Clark and the Fisher where they are only a quarter. I can't see paying more than a quarter for the content. Did you see see that the Detroit News has a new column on the front page of the features section: Sex Lady/Sex Laddie? They answer questions about sex (people need many more options for this) a la Cosmo and Redbook. Its just too embarrassing. I buy the NYT. | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 517 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 68.61.98.175 |
The layoffs going on are worse than who publishes what, in my h.o. That and Nolan Finley's ongoing Arab Hatefest. | ||
Babycombo Member Username: Babycombo Post Number: 81 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.42.235.155 |
I just graduated from Wayne State with a degree in Journalism and the shake-up at the two papers was a major part of my final semester. My professors (Ben Burns, Jack Lessenberry) discussed the ramificaitons of the sale of the two papers. The biggest problem with the sale is the future. Both seemed to agree that within 10-15 years, as circulation numbers dwindle, one paper will stop publishing. With the powerful news company Gannett behind the Freep, The Detroit News may be the one on the chopping block. | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 520 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 68.61.98.175 |
Within 10-15 years? Try within 2 years. | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 206 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42 |
Babe: Notice that there is no longer an afternoon paper. Those remaining PM papers are dying relics from a long-gone era. And is there really a circulation base for two AMers? Many papers have been caught falsifying their circulation figures to advertisers recently. | ||
Babycombo Member Username: Babycombo Post Number: 82 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.42.235.155 |
10-15 years is being a bit optimistic. | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 786 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 12.34.51.20 |
People have been predicting the News' demise since the ink was dry on the first JOA back in '88. So what else is new? They'd lose too much circulation to close one paper, or they would have done it long ago. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 254 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 68.2.191.57 |
I'm finding I prefer the news that shows up right here over the papers anyway. Sure the papers are more accountable but perhaps because of that, they don't get up close and personal. (Thinking of Itsjeff's recent "Some excitement on Saint Paul" thread.) Jimaz, old Detroit Newsboy | ||
Noggin Member Username: Noggin Post Number: 49 Registered: 09-2004 Posted From: 71.227.102.104 |
Aren't the newspapers there so the tv news has stories to broadcast about? | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 787 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 12.34.51.20 |
And radio, Noggin. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 327 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 207.200.116.139 |
I guess there's no hope for me and Jjaba to get our afternoon Detroit Times routes back again. | ||
Innercity_detroit Member Username: Innercity_detroit Post Number: 6 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 4.165.45.1 |
Thank GOD for the Michigan Citizen |
