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Detroit Free Press
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 The March 30, 2009 front page of the Detroit Free Press |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Gannett Company (Detroit Media Partnership) |
| Publisher | Paul Anger |
| Editor | Paul Anger |
| Founded | 1831 |
| Headquarters | 615 W. Lafayette Blvd. Detroit, Michigan 48226-3138  United States |
| Circulation | 234,579 Daily 639,350 Sunday[1] |
| ISSN | 1055-2758 |
| Official website | freep.com |
The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The Sunday edition is entitled the Sunday Free Press. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep" (reflected in the paper's web address, www.freep.com). It primarily serves Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, Washtenaw, and Monroe counties.
The Free Press is also the largest city newspaper owned by Gannett, which also publishes national newspaper USA Today. The Free Press has received nine [2]Pulitzer Prizes and four[3] Emmy Awards. The newspaper's motto is "On Guard for 181 Years."
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History
1831–1987: competitive newspaper
The newspaper was first published as the Democratic Free Press and Michigan Intelligencer on May 5, 1831. The first issues were printed on a Washington press purchased from the discontinued Oakland Chronicle of Pontiac, Michigan. It was hauled from Pontiac in a wagon over rough roads to a building at Bates and Woodbridge streets in Detroit. The press could produce 250 pages an hour, hand operated by two men. The first issues were 14 by 20 inches (360 × 510 mm) in size, with five columns of type. Sheldon McKnight became the first publisher with John Pitts Sheldon as editor.
In 1940 the Free Press was sold to the Knight Newspapers (later Knight Ridder) chain. During the following 47 years the Free Press competed with the Detroit News in the southeastern Michigan market. The Free Press was delivered and sold as a morning paper while the News was sold and delivered as an evening newspaper.
1987–present: joint operating agreement
In 1987, the paper entered into a hundred-year joint operating agreement with its rival, combining business operations while maintaining separate editorial staffs. The combined company is called the Detroit Newspaper Partnership. The two papers also began to publish joint Saturday and Sunday editions, though the editorial content of each remained separate. At the time, the Detroit Free Press was the tenth highest circulation paper in the U.S., and the combined Detroit News and Free Press was the country's fourth largest Sunday paper.
On July 13, 1995, Newspaper Guild-represented employees of the Free Press and News and the pressmen, printers and Teamsters working for the "Detroit Newspapers" distribution arm went on strike. By October, about forty percent of the editorial staffers crossed the picket line, and many trickled back over the next months and others stayed out for the two and a half years of the strike. The strike was resolved in court three years later, and the unions remain active at the paper, representing a majority of the employees under their jurisdiction.
In 1998, the Free Press vacated its former headquarters in downtown Detroit and moved to offices inside the News building.
On August 3, 2005, Knight Ridder sold the Free Press to the Gannett company, which had previously owned and operated the News. The News, in turn, was sold to MediaNews Group; Gannett continues to be the managing partner in the papers' joint operating agreement.
Detroit News and Free Press logos
On May 7, 2006, the Free Press resumed publication of its own Sunday edition, without any content from the News. A quirk in the operating agreement, however, allows the News to continue printing its editorial page in the Sunday Free Press.
On December 16, 2008, Detroit Media Partnership announced a plan to limit weekday home delivery for both dailies to Thursday and Friday only. On other weekdays the paper sold at newsstands would be smaller, about 32 pages, and redesigned. This arrangement went into effect beginning on March 30, 2009.[4]
The Free Press entered a news partnership with CBS owned-and-operated station WWJ-TV channel 62 in March 2009 to produce a morning news show called "First Forecast Mornings". Prior to the partnership, WWJ aired absolutely no local newscast at all. [5]
Other Free Press publications
- The Detroit Almanac: 300 Years of Life in the Motor City (2001). Peter Gavrilovich and Bill McGraw, editors. ISBN 0-937247-34-0
See also
References
- ^ "Circulation numbers for the 25 largest newspapers". boston.com. NY Times Co. 2011-11-01. http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/11/01/circulation_numbers_for_the_25_largest_newspapers/. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
- ^ Gallagher, John (2009-04-20). "Detroit Free Press wins ninth Pulitzer for coverage of mayoral scandal". Detroit Free Press. http://www.freep.com/article/20090420/NEWS01/90420047/Free-Press-wins-Pulitzer-coverage-mayoral-scandal. Retrieved 2011-05-01.
- ^ Free Press, Staff (2009-09-22). "Detroit Free Press wins 4th Emmy Award for Christ Child House". Detroit Free Press. http://www.freep.com/article/20090922/NEWS01/309220022/Free-Press-wins-its-4th-Emmy-Christ-Child-House-multimedia-project. Retrieved 2011-05-01.
- ^ Richard Pérez-Peña & Mary Chapman (2009-03-31). "Detroit's Daily Papers Are Now Not So Daily". nytimes.com (The New York Times). http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/business/media/31paper.html?_r=1. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
- ^ Marcucci, Carl (29 March 2009). "Free Press will join WWJ-TV for reports". RBR.com. http://rbr.com/free-press-will-join-wwj-tv-for-reports/. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
External links
- Official website
- Official mobile website
- Gannett subsidiary profile of the Detroit Free Press
- The Detroit Free Press Building
- Detroit Newspaper Partnership
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Gildon_Dissertation.pdf
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