The Death of the News

Can AnnArbor.com save local journalism?

by VIckie Elmer

posted 5/28/2009

The trio might have been candidates campaigning as they smiled, shook hands, and spoke to half-empty auditoriums around Ann Arbor in April. Instead, they were publishing executives working for the Newhouse family, and their mission was to sell a website and twice-weekly paper that will replace the daily Ann Arbor News this summer.

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