Detroit newspapers losing "daily" tag?

Presumably, the designers will still be designing the product that comes out on the newstands, boxes and in stores. And spending time on more special projects or whatever. Strangely, the design staff hasn't been hit very hard at all in the buyouts, maybe because they're mostly younger. So while other departments are struggling with the buyout/hiring freeze thing, they've not had much trouble. But they sure won't be able to hire for a long, long time.

 

Exactly. The Internet and television are the new newspapers, and newspapers are the new magazines. I don't know that that makes magazines.

 

The new books?

 

And books are the new stone tablets.

 

No way. Scrolls, dude.

 

That JOA has changed a few times since its inception.

It wasn't so long ago that the News had the 95 percent stake and the Freep 5 percent.

 

Not true. The Freep had a 50 percent stake when KR owned it; it was never less than that. It increased when KR sold to Gannett and Gannett sold the News to Singleton.

http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services-miscellaneous-business/4682881-1.html

The JOA says it wants to keep both papers going:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003923066

If you want to fold one of the papers before the JOA expires (this one runs through 2025), the Justice Department has to sign off. Usually what happens is there's some delay because community groups and suburban papers will file lawsuits against the JOA's dissolution and the Justice Department needs to hold hearings. Usually, the JOA will need to try to find a buyer and sometimes one emerges, which is what happened in Honolulu and San Fran. You can't simply dissolve the JOA without jumping through those hoops. Of course, in this era, there may be less community resistance to letting one paper fold and probably no buyer (although given that Singleton paid just $25 million for The News, the Justice Dept. may think an offer of $2 million in 2009 is cool). But you'll still need Justice Dept. approval unless there's a situation like Cincinnati in which the JOA ran out. That isn't the case here.

 

Welp, at least I was right about it changing.

 

What things in sports would you need to read online at 8 a.m. that would not be available in your local paper?

 

Doesn't matter. If they're online -- anywhere -- I don't need the paper cluttering my recycling bin.

Please understand: I want the content. I'll even pay for it, if that's the only way I can legally get it. I just don't want it ON PAPER.

 

OK, so I guess no books or magazines in your house?

 

Well, now, that's a little silly. Of course there are books. Not so much on the magazines, although I do tend to read Time or Newsweek when I travel.

Different strokes for different folks. I'm not home a lot. Therefore the daily newspaper is of little use to me.