 
Little_buddy Member Username: Little_buddy
Post Number: 64 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 2:26 pm: |   |
What other papers have there been in the area? |
 
Norwalk Member Username: Norwalk
Post Number: 225 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 2:31 pm: |   |
Anyone remember "Grit" ?? |
 
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1951 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 2:37 pm: |   |
Detroit Times Detroit Tribune There are the free weeklies too, like RD and MT... |
 
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera
Post Number: 42 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 2:38 pm: |   |
Remember Fifth Estate? |
 
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 3997 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 2:40 pm: |   |
There is still a Fifth Estate. |
 
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 3581 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 2:41 pm: |   |
There was one that came out during the strike. I can't remember the name. |
 
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 3998 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 2:43 pm: |   |
The Detroit Sunday Journal. Published over the Anchor Bar! The first strike paper was the Detroit Union, the Journal started after we proved with the Union that there was a need for a strike paper. |
 
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1952 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 2:45 pm: |   |
Alternative Press was published in Cass Corridor for a while on the DAW's old 1/2-ton press. |
 
Skylark Member Username: Skylark
Post Number: 26 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 2:47 pm: |   |
There used to be free paper called Orbit way more fun than Metrotimes. |
 
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera
Post Number: 44 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 2:48 pm: |   |
Oldredfordette, Where is Fifth Estate published and where can I get a copy? |
 
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1953 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 2:50 pm: |   |
And before Orbit there was FUN magazine. |
 
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 4002 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 2:55 pm: |   |
http://www.peterwerbe.com/esta te.htm |
 
Melody Member Username: Melody
Post Number: 150 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 2:57 pm: |   |
Michigan Chronicle. Oakland Press. Macomb Daily. |
 
Skylark Member Username: Skylark
Post Number: 27 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 3:02 pm: |   |
Also Between the Lines and Real Detroit both free. |
 
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1954 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 3:05 pm: |   |
The Monitor is a free weekly about local events. |
 
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 4004 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 3:11 pm: |   |
Michigan Citizen. Chronicle. |
 
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1955 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 3:14 pm: |   |
What's the Hamtramck paper? Is that the Citizen too? |
 
Tiorted Member Username: Tiorted
Post Number: 121 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 3:43 pm: |   |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C ategory:Newspapers_of_Detroit |
 
Evelyn Member Username: Evelyn
Post Number: 133 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 3:47 pm: |   |
Looks like it was sold. Couldn't find a website for it. http://hamtramckstar.com/index .php/2007/03/06/citizen_newspa per_sold It’s just a college paper, but the Daily Collegian, and later The South End, published by Wayne State students. www.thesouthendnews.com There’s also the Observer and Eccentrics in Livonia and Oakland County; the Mirror newspapers, also in Oakland; the heritage newspapers downriver; the Press and Guide in Dearborn; the Royal Oak Daily Tribune; the Grosse Pointe News. I think there's also a chain of weeklies in Macomb Co. and Southfield, but I can't remember their names. I know Henry Ford published his own anti-Semitic newspaper years ago, but I can’t remember what it was called. (Ok, I know these aren’t Detroit papers, but figured I’d mention them.) |
 
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1956 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 4:08 pm: |   |
The Dearborn Independent was Ford's paper. |
 
Southofeight Member Username: Southofeight
Post Number: 128 Registered: 07-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 4:10 pm: |   |
"I think there's also a chain of weeklies in Macomb Co. and Southfield, but I can't remember their names." How fitting. |
 
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe
Post Number: 1597 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 4:17 pm: |   |
Does anyone remember the Home Gazette? It was a Detroit weekly in the 60s and 70s. |
 
Miketeevee Member Username: Miketeevee
Post Number: 35 Registered: 07-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 4:18 pm: |   |
Grit? That brings back too many memories of reading comic books when I should have been studying! http://www.flickr.com/photos/b smif/435674095/in/set-72157600 029441715/ |
 
Blksoul_x Member Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 132 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 4:39 pm: |   |
The only paper that speaks the Truth... The Michigan Citizen! blksoul_atcha! |
 
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm
Post Number: 1029 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 6:01 pm: |   |
I wonder what ever happened to Parker Publications string of weeklies. At one time they published the Ferndale Gazette-Telegraph, the Highland Parker and at least 2 regional Detroit weekly newspapers...... |
 
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2
Post Number: 1265 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 7:58 pm: |   |
Story about GRIT, My brother delivered it for a little while, in early 70's, one day people complained that they weren't getting it. So the manager came to out house and asked my brother whats up! She ended up going to the garage and found a bunch of papers in the trash can. I think he had more important things to do like watch Star Trek. I guess that ended his career as a paper carrier. |
 
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1691 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 8:00 pm: |   |
Well the Michigan Chronicle is on Ledyard and Cass. |
 
Weather_dad Member Username: Weather_dad
Post Number: 4 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 8:18 pm: |   |
I remember selling a paper during a newspaper strike back in the 60's called The Daily American. |
 
Ravine Member Username: Ravine
Post Number: 1989 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 8:29 pm: |   |
Bullshit is shit from bulls. Some bulls may claim to represent your cause, and some may not, but they all shit, and shit & truth are two different things. |
 
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk
Post Number: 1147 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 9:41 pm: |   |
Crain's is the place to get downtown development news. |