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.
The Detroit Free Press reports that Time magazine has purchased a house in the city of Detroit and plans to move in reporters from its many different publications as they report on the city’s many contentious issues in the numerous publications the media giant owns.
In a highly unusual decision for a news organization, Time has purchased a 95-year-old house in Detroit’s historic West Village neighborhood, next to Indian Village. The home will serve as a base of operations for months — and perhaps a couple of years — as Time’s various publications cast a unique spotlight on Detroit and chronicle its increasingly desperate struggle to reinvent itself.
A Time reporter has told acquaintances he will move in before the end of summer. People familiar with the project said news coverage would be provided by staffers from several of Time Inc.’s more than 100 magazines, which include Time, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Money, People, Essence and Entertainment Weekly.
Time Inc. itself is a division of the Time Warner conglomerate that includes CNN, Turner Broadcasting, HBO, AOL and the Warner Brothers movie studio.
The Free Press’ Bill McGraw calls this plan “unprecedented in American media” and it’s hard to disagree with him. But the fact is that Detroit has everything a media outlet could want in terms of interesting and dramatic stories to report on, from political corruption to racial controversies to an endless supply of economic human interest stories.
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