Detroit News

…Free Press and the daily Detroit News, owned by the Gannett newspaper chain, resulted in heavy financial losses by both newspapers and threatened to collapse the Free Press. In 1989, following the approval of the U.S. attorney general, the papers’ advertising, business, production, and circulation departments were combined under a…

…owned by a newspaper (The Detroit News). Initially seen as simply another press-supported community service, a radio station became a means of hedging bets in case the new medium proved competitive with newspapers.

…approve a JOA between the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press. The two papers had engaged in fierce competition and both had been losing money, though the News had led the Free Press in most competitive measures. An administrative law judge had found that the Free Press, the “failing”…