DETROIT FREE PRESS

The '''Detroit Free Press''' is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep". Some still refer to it locally as "The Friendly" -- a slogan from an ad campaign in the '70s .
The ''Free Press'' is owned by Gannett and is the larger of Metro Detroit's two major dailies (the other being the ''The Detroit News'') and has received eight Pulitzer Prizes. Editorially, the ''Free Press'' is considered to be more liberal than ''The Detroit News''.

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History

The newspaper was first published as the ''Democratic Free Press'' and ''Michigan Intelligencer'' on May 5, 1831. In 1940 it was sold to the Knight Newspapers (later Knight Ridder) chain.
In 1987, the paper entered into a 100-year joint operating agreement with its rival, combining business operations while maintaining separate editorial staffs. The combined company is called the Detroit Newspaper Partnership. The two papers also began to publish joint Saturday and Sunday editions, though the editorial content of each remained separate. At the time, the ''Detroit Free Press'' was the 10th highest circulation paper in the U.S., and the combined ''Detroit News and Free Press'' was the country's fourth-largest Sunday paper.
On July 13, 1995, Newspaper Guild-represented employees of the ''Free Press'' and ''News'' and the pressmen, printers and Teamsters working for the "Detroit Newspapers" distribution arm went on strike. By October, about 40 percent of the editorial staffers crossed the picket line, including Mitch Albom, many trickled back over the next months and others stayed out for the two and a half years of the strike. The strike was resolved in court three years later, and the unions remain active at the paper, representing a majority of the employees under their jurisdiction.
In 1998, the ''Free Press'' vacated its former headquarters in downtown Detroit and moved to offices inside the ''News'' building.
On August 3, 2005, Knight Ridder sold the ''Free Press'' to the Gannett company, which had previously owned and operated the ''News''. The ''News'', in turn, was sold to MediaNews Group; Gannett continues to be the managing partner in the papers' joint operating agreement.
On May 7, 2006, the ''Free Press'' resumed publication of its own Sunday edition, without any content from the ''News.'' A quirk in the operating agreement, however, allows the ''News'' to continue printing its editorial page in the Sunday ''Free Press.''

References

1. 2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation

External links

★ Official website

★ Gannett subsidiary profile of the ''Detroit Free Press''

★ Detroit Newpaper Partnership