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Almost 30 years ago, I was national editor of the Detroit News, which was then the largest-circulation paper in Michigan.The newspaper was then locked in…
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?Ten years or so ago, a woman named Andrea Lavigne sat in on some media survey classes I was teaching at Wayne State University.She was in her late 30s or…
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TOLEDO, Ohio - The Blade newspaper in Toledo says it's considering shutting down its printing and mailing facilities and laying off about 130…
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Newspapers, even big-city newspapers, are in a sorry state these days.Thanks largely to the Internet, their circulation and advertising revenue has been…
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There are many reasons to lament the slow disappearance of newspapers. But here’s one you may not have considered: the loss of cartoons and comic…
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Tomorrow will be a historic day in Detroit. That's when a federal judge will decide whether the city is eligible for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection. On…
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Newspapers aren’t what they used to be. Newsrooms are smaller and big stories are being missed.Case in point: The Flint Journal apologized recently for…
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Last week I went to Springfield, Illinois to do some workshops for a program called NewsTrain, which is sponsored by a number of journalism organizations…
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CareerCast.com ranked more than 1,000 American jobs, and determined that the worst job isn’t garbage collector, animal cage cleaner or Lindsey Lohan’s…
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Union workers at the Macomb Daily and Royal Oak Tribune newspapers are contemplating a possible strike and other job actions at the end of the month.The…