Detroit Getting a New Daily Paper
This article ran in today’s Grand Rapids Press. It was on Page B2 — in the Business section. Just a brief. We hear all about newspaper’s struggling as a business, but not much about things like this…
Detroit Daily Press to start publishing Nov. 23; home delivery starts Nov. 30
By The Associated Press
November 13, 2009, 11:43AM
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Two veteran publishers are launching a daily newspaper serving the Detroit area, where the two main players have reduced home delivery to survive in a struggling industry.
Brothers Mark and Gary Stern said Friday they’ll start publishing The Detroit Daily Press on Nov. 23, selling it for 50 cents daily and $1 on Sundays. Home delivery starts Nov. 30.
The paper’s 60 full-time employees are using the former offices of The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak, which moved.
The Sterns ran daily newspapers in Detroit in 1964 and 1967; New York in 1978; and Minneapolis in 1980 when workers at those cities’ major newspapers went on strike.
The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press in March reduced home delivery and increased electronic offerings.Detroit Daily Press Facebook site
One Response
This seems like an opportunity for some newspaper experimentation. In a city that is in the economic state that Detroit is, to get a new business in a struggling industry means that there will need to be some changes to the general behavior of a newspaper.
Do you think they’ll stick local with mostly detroit based content, or will it go the way of the Free Press and Detroit News and try to carry statewide coverage?
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