Anger previously had been vice president and editor of the Gannett-owned Des Moines (Iowa) Register since 2002.Īnger’s stewardship of the newspaper also included major journalism awards and new investment into digital and online products, but also layoffs, furloughs and benefit and wage cuts or freezes - symptoms of the overall decline of the newspaper industry as advertising revenue has moved online and circulation has declined.Īnger was replaced by Free Press veteran Robert Huschka in August. In 2009, he was named publisher after David Hunke left the then- Detroit Media Partnership (now ), which operates the joint business functions of the Free Press and rival The Detroit News, to become publisher of USA Today. Paul Anger retired May 15 as editor of the Detroit Free Press, where his tenure included staff reductions as the newspaper industry has contracted, as well as winning two Pulitzer Prizes.Īnger was named editor and vice president of the Free Press when McLean, Va.-based Gannett bought the newspaper in August 2005 for $262 million from now-defunct Knight Ridder Inc. It automatically renews for five years if neither party opts out. They have a 25-year joint operating agreement that expires in December 2025, but could be dissolved sooner under financial loss criteria. The Free Press and The News have separate newsrooms but share business functions under an entity known as.
Inc., owns 95 percent of the partnership.įor its part, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) went through a major transformation: It spun off its broadcast and digital arms into a new company, Tegna (NYSE: TGNA), in June. Pleasant, along with dozens of nondaily publications in its Voice and Heritage chains.ĭigital First owns a 5 percent stake in the joint operating partnership that runs the shared business functions for The News and Detroit Free Press. However, a $400 million deal to sell most of the publications - but not The News, whose fate was never discussed - to New York City-based Apollo Global Managementwas halted in May without public explanation.ĭigital First also owns The Journal Register chain, which includes The Oakland Press in Pontiac T he Macomb Daily and Royal Oak's Daily Tribune, both now based in Clinton Township and The Morning Sun in Mt. New York City-based Digital First Media, owner of The News, had intended to sell all of the company’s newspapers for corporate parent Alden Global Capital LLC, a New York-based hedge fund. But at the macro level, the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News also experienced uncertainty with their respective owners. Retirements, buyouts and job changes dominated the local media industry headlines over the past 12 months. There were some seismic shifts in the Detroit media landscape in 2015, especially within the newsrooms of the city’s two daily newspapers.
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