This is today's Detroit Free Press. Online, the paper's website is a rare sight within Gannett: Nicely organized with generous white space, easy to navigate, and relatively free of the jarring advertising that too many papers heap on their sites. Right away, I noticed the searchable database of home foreclosures in the Database Central section. (Let's hope it doesn't include any of the 110 Detroit staffers losing their jobs!) Another smart database: more than 2,000 Michigan taxpayers owed millions in undelivered IRS refunds.I have two very insider-ish questions I hope someone can answer: Does Free Press Publisher David Hunke still report to Craig Moon, publisher of USA Today? Also, what is Free Press General Manager Susie Ellwood's role -- and who does she report to?
Quick update: A reader tells me that, yes, Hunke reports to Moon. Plus, Ellwood is executive vice president and general manager of the Detroit Media Partnership -- not the Free Press. The partnership is the JOA overseeing business operations of both the Free Press and the Detroit News. Gannett sold the News in 2005 to frequent business partner MediaNews Group. At the same time, GCI bought the Free Press from Knight Ridder.
Detroit employees: E-mail what you know, along with any link suggestions, tips, snarky letters, etc. See my Tipsters Anonymous Policy in the sidebar, upper right. Or leave a note in the comments section, below.
The Free Press at a glance:
- President, Publisher and CEO of Detroit Newspaper Partnership: David Hunke
- Editor: Paul Anger
- Founded: 1831
- Joined Gannett: 2005
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