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The Detroit News

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 1975, when a new facility opened in Sterling Heights. The Times building was demolished in 1978.[2] 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.

Type

Daily newspaper

Digital First Media
(Detroit Media Partnership)

Gary Miles

Gary Miles

1873 (1873)

160 West Fort Street
Detroit, Michigan
48226

51,595 (as of 2022)[1]

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; it has been a primary NBC affiliate since sign-on, owing to WWJ-AM's ties with the NBC Radio Network.


In 1989, the paper entered into a one hundred year joint operating agreement with the rival Free Press, combining business operations while keeping separate editorial staffs. The combined company is called the Detroit Media Partnership (DMP). The Free Press moved into The News building in 1998 and until May 7, 2006, the two published a single joint weekend edition. Today, The News is published Monday–Saturday, and has an editorial page in the Sunday Free Press.


The Detroit News has an online version, including a separate website for connections from European Union countries that does not track personal information.


The Detroit News has won three Pulitzer Prizes.

sportswriter from 1971 to 1993[16]

Jack Berry

sportswriter from 1963 to 2023

Jerry Green

2017 Christine MacDonald[17]

Sigma Delta Chi Award

1994 Eric Freedman and Jim Mitzelfeld[18]

Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting

1982 The Detroit News[19]

Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

1977 for General Excellence.[20]

Penney-Missouri Award

1942 Milton Brooks (the first winner of a photojournalism Pulitzer)[21]

Pulitzer Prize for Photography

Media in Detroit

Warren T. Brookes

Official website

Archived August 8, 2014, at the Wayback Machine

Detroit Media Partnership

at Project Gutenberg

Works by The Detroit News

at Internet Archive

Works by or about The Detroit News

Images from the Detroit News at Wayne State University