Category Archives: future of newspapers

Free Press cover-up?

Posted on February 9, 2008 by admin

If there is indeed a Detroit Free Press cover-up (as the mayor claims) in Detroit’s everlasting text message scandal, it is one Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick won’t enjoy hearing about. He’ll probably scream it’s illegal. Since when, as the mayor claims, … Continue reading →

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An investigation you’re not likely to see

Posted on February 9, 2008 by admin

There was a time when it was not cool for one company to monopolize an industry. If a business gets too big and controls too much of its market, it may get some unwanted attention from the feds. We have … Continue reading →

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Kwamegate out of control

Posted on February 6, 2008 by admin

Sometimes small is big. And sometimes big is small. The steam rising from the Detroit Free Press’ revelation two weeks ago of the text messages between Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his chief of staff/paramour Christine Beatty has really roasted … Continue reading →

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Kudos to Dave

Posted on February 5, 2008 by admin

This just in — The Detroit Free Press won’t be killing its Sunday suburban editions after all. “Readers like them too much,” was the consensus of top editors, I’m told. I’d been hearing from insiders that the Community Free Press, … Continue reading →

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Spiking the Super Bowl pizza

Posted on February 3, 2008 by admin

I’m no sports writer, so it was neat to think my byline would appear over a Super Bowl story. What a drag that my first-ever Super Bowl piece failed to meet the exacting publication standards of the Detroit Free Press. … Continue reading →

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Bye-bye CFP, ciao to the loo

Posted on January 29, 2008 by admin

Scuttlebutt from Freepsters suggests the Gannett-owned Detroit Media Partnership which operates the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press may be poised to axe several of the Free Press’ popular Sunday Community Free Press editions. If these murmurings are correct, then … Continue reading →

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Election coverage then and, well, then again

Posted on January 9, 2008 by admin

I thought this would not be about the Future of Newspapers. I was looking at the Detroit Free Press headline today, Jan. 9, 2007, that would have us readers believe that “Clinton, McCain win in night of comebacks” with the … Continue reading →

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The Future of Newspapers, Part I

Posted on December 11, 2007 by admin

Seems like the demise of newspapers is on people’s minds. I stopped at the Plymouth shop of glass blower Don Schneider, who gave me his take on the Detroit dailies’ apparently unstoppable descent toward doom. The Free Press and the … Continue reading →

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