Article: Detroit Free Press and News urge Meese to approve JOA application. (Attorney General Edwin Meese, joint operating arrangement)

Article: Detroit mayor, unions withdraw opposition to Detroit papers' ...
PR Newswire;  February 16, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... joint operating agreement (JOA) between the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News ... 21, 1988, to close the Free Press if a JOA is not granted, "changed ... certain closure of the Free Press. Thus, if the JOA is not approved, The Detroit ...

Article: Joint operating angst: Detroit's troubled JOA. (joint ...
Columbia Journalism Review;  May 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... circulation surges over the Free Press. What brought about ... Operating Agreement (JOA) between the two ... any money since the JOA took effect; reliable ... it has not. The Free Press, meanwhile, broke ... summer. Before the JOA, the News was an all-day paper and the Free ...

Article: Knight-Ridder reaffirms support for Detroit Free ...
PR Newswire;  May 4, 1989 ;     657 words ... ... REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR DETROIT FREE PRESS, JOA MIAMI, May 4 /PRNewswire ... support for the Detroit Free Press and the company's intention ... Detroit between the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News ... case for approval of the JOA to the U.S. Supreme ...

Article: CITY WILL LOSE ONE PAPER, BUT STILL HEAR ITS VOICE Chattanooga ...
NewsInc;  December 7, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... and-Sunday Chattanooga Free Press. The p.m. paper was ... a week. Technically, Free Press Publisher Lee Anderson ... the Chattanooga News-Free Press Co. is sole owner of ... operating agreement. The JOA will be dissolved, the ...

Article: JOA OK'D FOR DETROIT NEWSPAPERS
Post-Tribune (IN);  August 9, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... be called The Detroit News and Free Press, on Saturdays and Sundays. The JOA between the News and the Free Press, the nation's ninth-and 10th ... that he would recommend that the Free Press be closed if the JOA were rejected. But Meese said ...

Article: JOA Makes Charleston An Unusual Newspaper Market
The State Journal;  September 26, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... story gets out this way." The JOA is slated to expire in 2036 ... anyone's guess. So far, the JOA has survived the initial agreement ... it, according to the Detroit Free Press (a Knight Ridder paper in a JOA with Gannett-owned Detroit ...

Article: Michigan Investor Group files brief in U.S. Supreme Court joining ...
PR Newswire;  May 1, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... there is no need for a JOA in order to "save The Detroit Free Press." The Newspaper ... Needelman ruled that the JOA should be denied because The Free Press does not qualify as ... Salvage value of The Free Press, if the JOA was not approved ...