“Gannett tends to make papers dull and mediocre,” Lessenberry said. Lessenberry expressed fear that the editorial style of the Free Press was likely to change. “Some of us already had concerns that Gannett was too dominant,” he said Friday.
It already owns Hometown Communications Network Inc., a newspaper company that serves Detroit and neighboring counties, and Third Street Publications, which delivers magazines to the suburbs of Detroit.Īll this did not come as good news to Jack Lessenberry, Wayne State University journalism professor and former foreign correspondent and executive national editor of the News. The transaction will make the Free Press the crowned jewel of Gannett’s formidable collection of newspapers in southeastern Michigan. The Detroit News, Michigan’s second most widely circulated paper, formerly controlled by Gannett, was sold to a smaller private company called MediaNews Group. The Free Press was one of six papers that traded hands that day as Knight Ridder and Gannett upset the media market in four different states. last Thursday, prompting concerns from some that the quality of Michigan’s largest newspaper would suffer under the nation’s largest corporate publishing chain. The Knight Ridder publishing company sold the Detroit Free Press to media giant Gannett Co. Professor Ben Burns works for Wayne State University, not the University of Michigan. Professor Steve Lacy works for Michigan State University, not Wayne State University. The same article incorrectly labeled two professors at their universities. The front-page story “Detroit Free Press is sold to giant Gannet” (8/8/05) about the Detroit Free Press should have been spelled with “Gannett” not “Gannet.”
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