The Detroit News
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The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of
At the time of its acquisition of The News, Gannett also had other Detroit interests, as its outdoor advertising company, which ultimately became
The News claims to have been the first newspaper in the world to operate a radio station, station 8MK, which began broadcasting August 20, 1920. 8MK is now CBS-owned WWJ. In 1947, it established Michigan's first television station, WWJ-TV, now WDIV-TV; it has been a primary NBC affiliate since sign-on, owing to WWJ-AM's ties with the NBC Radio Network.
In 1989, the paper entered into a one hundred year
The Detroit News has an online version, including a separate website for connections from European Union countries that does not track personal information.
The Detroit News has won three Pulitzer Prizes.
History
The Detroit News was founded by
The Detroit News building was erected in 1917. It was designed by
In 1931, The Detroit News made history when it bought a three-place Pitcairn PCA-2 auto-gyro as a camera aircraft that could take off and land in restricted places and semi-hover for photos. It was the ancestor of today's well-known news helicopter.[4] In 1935 a single Lockheed Model 9 Orion was purchased and modified by Lockheed as a news camera plane for The Detroit News. To work in that role, a pod was built into the frontal leading edge of the right-wing about eight feet (2.4 m) out from the fuselage. This pod had a glass dome on the front and a mounted camera. To aim the camera the pilot was provided with a primitive grid-like gun sight on his windshield.[5]
Deb Price's debut column in The Detroit News in 1992 was the first syndicated national column in American mainstream media that spoke about gay life.[6][7]
On July 13, 1995,
August 3, 2005, Gannett announced that it would sell The News to
In February 2014, the DMP announced its offices along with those of The News and the Free Press would move from the West Lafayette building to six floors in both the old and new sections of the former Federal Reserve building at 160 West Fort Street. The partnership expected to place signs on the exterior similar to those on the former offices.[9][10] The move took place October 24–27, 2014.[11]
Editorially, The News is considered more
Staff
The staff of The Detroit News includes editorial page columnists Nolan Finley, Kaitlyn Buss and Bankole Thompson; design writer Maureen Feighan; food critic Melody Baetens; sports columnists Bob Wojnowski and John Niyo; sportswriters Angelique Chengelis, Tony Paul, Justin Rogers, Chris McCosky, Mike Curtis, Rod Beard, David Goricki, Matt Charboneau, Nolan Bianchi, Ted Kulfan and James Hawkins; auto critic Henry Payne and business columnist Daniel Howes.
The staff also includes metro reporter Robert Snell, who was named Michigan Journalist of the Year in 2014, 2018, and 2020 by the Detroit chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.[15]
Former staff
- Jack Berry, sportswriter from 1971 to 1993[16]
- Jerry Green, sportswriter from 1963 to 2023
Awards
- 2017 Sigma Delta Chi Award Christine MacDonald[17]
- 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting Eric Freedman and Jim Mitzelfeld[18]
- 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service The Detroit News[19]
- 1977 Penney-Missouri Award for General Excellence.[20]
- 1942 Pulitzer Prize for Photography Milton Brooks (the first winner of a photojournalism Pulitzer)[21]
See also
References
- ^ "2022-2023 Michigan Press Association Member Directory". Michigan Press Association. February 1, 2022. Archived from the original on April 22, 2023. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
- ^ "Detroit Times Building". Buildings of Detroit. Archived from the original on October 26, 2010. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
- ^ "The Detroit News: Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-Three, Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen, a Record of Progress". Franklin Press. 1918.
- ^ "Hover Plane and Camera Join News Staff". Popular Mechanics. Hearst Magazines. October 1931. p. 632.
- ^ "Flying Camera Aimed Like a Machine Gun". Popular Mechanics. Hearst Magazines. April 1935. p. 513.
- The Advocate. Archivedfrom the original on August 11, 2023. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
- from the original on December 9, 2020. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
- ^ Pérez-Peña, Richard & Mary Chapman (March 31, 2009). "Detroit's Daily Papers Are Now Not So Daily". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 29, 2016. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- ^ Zaniewski, Ann; John Gallagher (February 20, 2014). "Free Press, News moving to new home in core of downtown Detroit". Detroit Free Press. Archived from the original on February 24, 2014. Retrieved May 16, 2014.
- ^ Aguilar, Louis (April 23, 2014). "Detroit News, Free Press, DMP will occupy 6 floors in old Federal Reserve building". The Detroit News. Archived from the original on April 25, 2014. Retrieved May 16, 2014.
- ^ Rubin, Neil (October 24, 2014). "News moving out, leaving century of memories behind". The Detroit News. Archived from the original on October 26, 2014. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
- ^ Winkler, Claudia (October 28, 2004). "'For President: None of the Above': 'The Detroit News' Completes Its Retreat from Principle to Mush". The Weekly Standard. Archived from the original on October 31, 2004. Retrieved April 18, 2014.
- ^ "Endorsement: Libertarian Gary Johnson for President". The Detroit News. September 29, 2016. Archived from the original on September 21, 2019. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ "Editorial: For president, we can't lend our name to men whose values we don't share". The Detroit News. October 28, 2020. Archived from the original on June 29, 2022. Retrieved June 29, 2022.
- ^ "News' Snell named journalist of the year". The Detroit News. April 18, 2018. Archived from the original on July 29, 2020. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
- ^ "Veteran Detroit-Area Sportswriter Jack Berry Named Recipient of PGA Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award - The Golf Wire". The Golf Wire. February 15, 2007. Archived from the original on December 29, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
- ^ "Detroit News reporter wins national award". The Detroit News. April 23, 2018. Archived from the original on July 29, 2020. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
- ^ "For dogged reporting that disclosed flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency". The Pulitzer Prizes. 1994. Archived from the original on July 19, 2019. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
- ^ "For a series by Sydney P. Freedberg and David Ashenfelter which exposed the U.S. Navy's cover-up of circumstances surrounding the deaths of seamen aboard ship and which led to significant reforms in naval procedures". The Pulitzer Prizes. 1982. Archived from the original on July 19, 2019. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
- ^ "Two Times Reporters Win Penney-Missouri Awards". The New York Times. December 20, 1977. Archived from the original on April 10, 2019. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
- ^ "For his photo entitled Ford Strikers Riot.". The Pulitzer Prizes. 1942. Archived from the original on July 19, 2019. Retrieved July 19, 2019.