Big changes at Detroit dailies

After more than a week of rumor and speculation, it's now official: the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News are instituting fundamental changes to the way they deliver news, according to a series of articles on the Detroit Free Press website.

Detroit Media Partnership CEO Dave Hunke, publisher of the Free Press, said that starting in spring 2009, both the Free Press and the Detroit News — also operated by the partnership — would deliver to homes only on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, the heaviest days for advertising and the most popular papers for readers. But the newspapers will remain available seven days a week at stores, newsstands and coin boxes across Michigan.

The move will allow the papers to focus more on the digital delivery of their respective content.
The papers each hope to improve their online content delivery and attract more readers to their websites as they transition away from the print-and-paper business model.

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