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Detroit Newspaper JOA to End

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www.detroitnews.com

Detroit News to operate independently at year’s end

The joint operating agreement between The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press will end at year's end.
www.detroitnews.com

The local printing plant is already slated to close in August. The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News, which founded what is now WWJ radio and WDIV-TV, will be separating.

The Free Press has stated they will continue 7 day print editions, at least initially, while the News has yet to be clear on their plans in this regard. All of the News parent company papers in the area do print daily editions, so hopefully this will continue.
 
Talking with a friend and I was reminded how in 1984 I used to deliver the Detroit News in the afternoon and weekends. I had the classic News red wagon. My route made enough for me to have money for incidentals. I lived in Northwest Detroit and the distribution center was on Puritan and Meyers. I can still recall the smell of all those newspapers!
 
The Publisher of the News, Gary Miles, announced that the Sunday Edition will be delayed. It's kind of an embarrassment for him to walk that back so soon after having announced it. I'm not sure a solo Sunday edition is the way to go. Perhaps a 'Weekend' edition, which would start as an expanded Saturday edition might be the way to go and grow it from there. I hope they get it together.
 
The culmination of the JOA sunset was the Free Press (USA Today) acquiring the News in a very quick transaction from the News' VC ownership.

USA Today claims to want to keep publishing both papers and are doing so for now. A significant, but anticipated, change came today when the News reported they'll no longer carry AP content which had been a lot of what they've been publishing and will instead only use content from the USA Today network and Reuters. This is a step towards a unipaper and marks a major market presence loss for the AP.
 


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