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.
Freedom Communications, which owns WWMT in Kalamazoo and WLAJ in Lansing, filed for bankruptcy protections on Tuesday. The Kalamazoo Gazette reports that the filing was made in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in Wilmington, Del. According to those filings, the Gazette reports, Freedom has assets of between $500 million and $1 [...]
The Lansing State Journal reports that Gannett Newspapers posted an unexpected $70.5 million profit in the second quarter, a profit of 30 cents per share. Actually, the State Journal didn’t report that, it used and AP report. They would have reported it themselves, but after all the recent layoffs Gannett has imposed on the paper, [...]
Amid a gloomy week for local media, the Lansing State Journal has completed 26 layoffs as part of a larger cut to the work force in media giant Gannett. Gannett has ordered a reduction of its payroll by 1,400 people, according to a story on the Lansing State Journal’s website. Two other employees had their [...]
The economic downturn and declining fortunes of traditional media organizations are continuing to take its toll on Michigan news outlets. Among those facing an uncertain future are papers and television stations owned by the Journal Register Co., Young Broadcasting and Gannett.
Oakland county residents in Birmingham, West Bloomfield, Troy, Rochester and Southfield will no longer have a local, weekly paper, Michigan Pubic Radio reports. Observer & Eccentric Newspapers, which is owned by Gannett, will stop publishing all five Eccentric editions on May 31 and lay off 44 workers.
Our colleague Todd Heywood reported earlier that newspaper company Gannett (NYSE:GCI) was putting its workers on mandatory one-week furloughs during the next quarter to reduce costs.
The New York Times reports today that Gannett Company (NYSE:GCI), which owns 85 newspapers across the nation, will order most of its 31,000 employees to take a week off without pay.
Lansing area media report 34 positions have been eliminated at the Lansing State Journal. Among the positions cut was long-time entertainment reporter Mike Hughes, and most of the staff of the Gannett News “independent” entertainment newspaper Noise, according to The City Pulse today.
Gannett Newspapers, which own Michigan papers including the Lansing State Journal, The Detroit Free Press and the Battle Creek Enquirer, cut its Michigan workforce. In a story yesterday, the Enquirer announced a cut of one-half of its workforce with 50 of its 105 employees receiving pink slips. The cuts came in the paper’s production/printing departments [...]
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