Exposer of secret iniquities - Unrelenting foe of privilege and corruption." Promoter of civic welfare and civic pride - Bond of civic unity - Protector of civil rights. Bearer of intelligence - dispeller of ignorance and prejudice - A light shining into all dark places. Reflector of every human interest - friend of every righteous cause - encourager of every generous act. Interpreter of the public intent - troubler of the public conscience. The statues are of Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of moveable type, which allowed for the mass production of books and the birth of the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods William Caxton, who brought the printing press to England and is said to have been that nation's first printer Christophe Plantin, an influential printer during the Renaissance period and Benjamin Franklin, who was not only key in America's founding, but also had a newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette, and printed "Poor Richard's Almanack." Franklin was a firm believer in the power - and the importance - of the press.īetween these statues are these words carved into stone panels: "Mirror of the public mind. Kahn designed the Fort Street and Lafayette Boulevard facades to be nearly identical, though the latter features four statues and five panels spelling out the paper's mission as a watchdog for the people. The ink-stained wretches moved into their new digs and began banging out stories on typewriters the following year. This new building would be far larger than the paper's home at Shelby and Larned streets - and far more modern. The News continued to grow, and in 1916, architect Albert Kahn was hired to design a new home for its operations. The paper proved to be an almost instant success, with Detroiters eating up Scripps' brand of local interest stories over dinner or after work. While most papers today hit doorsteps in the morning, the News came in the afternoon. Scripps began publishing The Evening News. This has made the structure the undisputed home of Michigan news media. Today, the Detroit News Building is home to not only its namesake newspaper, but also the paper's arch-rival, the Detroit Free Press. That number had been surpassed by several other papers by 2012.For nearly 100 years, some of Detroit's greatest journalism has been produced within the walls of this building. The Detroit Free Press’ e-edition had about 100,000 readers as of 2010, giving it the second-highest e-circulation that year, behind only the Wall Street Journal. The papers also introduced an e-edition of their non-print editions as part of the transition. The papers remain available at newsstands each day. In 2009, the Free Press and News became two of the first papers to cut back from daily delivery in order to save money and emphasize the web, delivering the Free Press to homes three days a week and the News twice a week. The Daily News is owned by MediaNews, which bought the paper from Gannett in 2005. The Free Press, often known as the Freep, is the older and larger of Detroit’s daily newspapers, having launched in 1831. The Free Press is owned by Gannett, who bought the paper from Knight Ridder in 2005 in the same deal in which it sold the News to the MediaNews Group. ![]() The two papers were not making money as of late 2009, though executives were optimistic about their profitability by the end of 2010. The papers are owned separately and employ independent news staffs and websites. Under a 1987 joint operating agreement, the Detroit Media Partnership publishes, distributes, and sells advertising for both papers. ![]() The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News are Michigan’s largest newspapers.
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