By Joel Thurtell
On the heels of what looks like a colossal screw-up in downsizing its once daily newspapers to a pair of failies, Gannett is dropping another shoe on Detroit.
According to the Oakland Press, Gannett plans to close the Birmingham, Troy, West Bloomfield and Rochester Eccentric newspapers and cut 44 jobs. They’ll also be shutting the Southfield Eccentric and Mirror newspapers.
They plan to start a Sunday paper for south central and southeastern Oakland County.
For now, Gannett will keep publishing its Observer papers in western Wayne County and Hometown papers in Oakland and Livingston counties.
