I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Aside from the earth-shaking changes coming to General Motors and Chrysler this week, another historic epoch begins for metro Detroit.
Today the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News stopped home delivery to millions of subscribers in a bid to revamp its business model in a marketplace where newspapers are either severely distressed, heading into bankruptcy or shutting down all together.
Hard copies of the paper will still be delivered to homes that want them on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, the busiest days for advertising. Newsstand delivery will continue daily.
The papers are distributing a half-million free copies of the paper today as it and the Free Press move to distributing its content mostly on the Web. The Free Press will produce a two-hour news program on WWJ-TV, the area’s CBS affiliate, beginning in May.
So as the country looks to Detroit to see the future of the auto industry, it will also be looking to the area for the future of the newspaper industry.
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