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Article: Putting a paper to bed. (Detroit Free Press, Detroit News may sign joint operating agreement)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- February 29, 1988
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They don't fight newspaper wars the way they used to-not even in Detroit, which for years has been having a dandy. At the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News, they still remember how Free Press reporters borrowed an armored tank from a nearby Chrysler plant to get an edge in covering the 1967 riots. The coverage won a Pulitzer Prize. Then there was the story of the Free Press writer, in the Philippines to cover a planeload of Detroiters seeking out a faith healer, who bribed a local teletype operator to hold up the copy of his Detroit News rival way past deadline. Anything for a newsbeat-at least that's how it used to be.
Now, however, as in so many ...