Les Gruber, a restaurateur in Detroit, recalled, “Back in early 1961, Irvin Arthur, a New York agent called me. Aso around that time, Barbra secured a talent agency and agent (Irvin Arthur of the Associated Booking Corporation). Streisand-18 years old at the time-began working with a manager (Ted Rozar) in November 1960 (they signed a three-year contract). Gannett is also the publisher of USA Today.The Caucus Club, located on the ground floor of the Penobscot Building in Detroit, had dark paneling and brass sconces.
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Earlier, in 2005, Gannett purchased the Free Press while selling off the Detroit News. Due to the terms of the Joint Operating Agreement, the News is allowed to include its editorial page within the Sunday edition of the Free Press. The two papers published a combined Saturday and Sunday paper until May 2006, when the Detroit Free Press resumed publishing its own Sunday edition. The papers split profits but keep their editorial staffs separate. During 1960–1980, the competition for market dominance continued among a number of local papers, ultimately leaving two papers in the Detroit market, the Detroit Free Press with a late night and morning edition, and its main rival, The Detroit News, an afternoon newspaper.ġ989 saw the adoption of a 100-year Joint Operating Agreement between the Knight-Ridder-owned Free Press and the Gannett-owned News, where the two papers would share business operations as the Detroit Newspaper Agency. John Knight bought the Free Press in 1940 bringing the paper under group ownership for the first time, creating some concerns over the independence of the paper. Guest published his homey poems in the Free Press and was syndicated in 300 newspapers. During this time, and up until his death in 1959, Edgar A. The Free Press won its first Pulitzer Prize in 1932, and has won 10, more than all other Michigan newspapers combined. During his time as editor and owner, the Evening News (now Detroit News) started publication in 1873, beginning a circulation battle that exists today, and hand-set type was replaced by the linotype, revolutionizing the printing industry. In 1881, the Free Press became the first American newspaper to be published in Europe when William E. This tone faded in time with political shifts and change in ownership. Free Press founders Williams and Campau were slaveholders, and the paper was a mouthpiece for Jacksonian principles. The Free Press, in its early history, despite outwardly noting it was not in favor of slavery and supported the Union cause during the Civil War, regularly printed content that was vehemently anti-abolitionist, and was littered with derogatory terms for African Americans as well as inflammatory racial pieces. However, Storey is also charged with publishing “many items in the guise of news stories designed to heap ridicule on blacks,” according to Frank Angelo’s history of the newspaper. During the Civil War, Storey’s correspondents sent reports from the battlefields, making the Free Press a nationally-known source for the latest news. He emphasized not only the local news but expanded coverage of national news via the telegraph.
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Storey bought the paper in 1853 and created a series of innovative firsts for the Free Press, such as the first regular Sunday edition in the nation. After some waffling back and forth among other titles, Daily Free Press, Free Press and Democratic Free Press, a variety of owners, and a variety of weekly and daily editions, the Detroit Free Press became the permanent name in 1848. The name was changed to Detroit Daily Free Press in 1835 when it became the area’s first daily paper. The newspaper went through a series of name changes, first dropping “Michigan Intelligencer” from the masthead to become the Democratic Free Press in 1832.
Sheldon McKnight, former publisher of the Detroit Gazette, was publisher. Williams and his uncle Joseph Campau, under the auspices of their business, Joseph Campau & Company, bought out the Oakland Chronicle in Pontiac, and moved the equipment to an office at the corner of Bates and Woodbridge streets in Detroit. The first issue of the Detroit Free Press was published on under the name The Democratic Free Press and Michigan Intelligencer. Citing a need to establish a newspaper sympathetic to Andrew Jackson’s Democratic Party, John R.
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