Not as bad as some feared, but still not great news: Detroit’s newspapers announced Tuesday they plan to offer only three days of home delivery and will push their online editions in a fight for their survival amid slumping revenue industry wide. The Detroit Media Partnership expects to cut about 9 percent of its work [...]
Next week could be a sad moment in the history of Detroit media, and for me personally. I grew up reading the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press. Long before the Internets and blogs and 24/7 cable news, my hometown newspapers informed me and my thinking, entertained me, and provided a window into the [...]
This is good news for no one—not the newspapers, not their advertisers, not their staffs…and certainly not PR practitioners: Average weekday circulation at 507 papers was about 38.2 million copies for the period ended September 30, 2008, according to the U.S. Audit Bureau of Circulations. That was a 4.6 percent drop from the same six-month [...]
