The Detroit News
The December 28, 2009, front page
of The Detroit News |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) |
Digital First Media (Detroit Media Partnership) |
| Publisher | Jonathan Wolman |
| Editor | Jonathan Wolman |
| Managing editors | Gary Miles |
| Founded | 1873 |
| Headquarters | 160 West Fort Street Detroit, Michigan 48226  United States
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| Circulation | 141,668 (2011) (weekday) |
| ISSN | 1055-2715 |
| Website | detroitnews |
The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. The paper began in 1873, when it rented space in the rival Detroit Free Press's building. The News absorbed the Detroit Tribune on February 1, 1919, the Detroit Journal on July 21, 1922, and on November 7, 1960, it bought and closed the faltering Detroit Times. However, it retained the Times' building, which it used as a printing plant until 1967, when a new facility opened in Sterling Heights and the Times building was demolished. The street in downtown Detroit where the Times building once stood is still called "Times Square." The Evening News Association, owner of The News, merged with Gannett in 1985.
At the time of its acquisition of The News, Gannett also had other Detroit interests, as its outdoor advertising company, which ultimately became Outfront Media through a series of mergers, operated many billboards across Detroit and the surrounding area, including advertising displays on Detroit Department of Transportation and Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority buses, with its only competitor, primarily along Metro Detroit's freeway network, being 3M National Advertising (now Lamar Advertising).
The News claims to have been the first newspaper in the world to operate a radio station, station 8MK, which began broadcasting August 20, 1920. 8MK is now CBS-owned WWJ. In 1947, it established Michigan's first television station, WWJ-TV, now WDIV-TV.
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