Media News - Friday, July 24, 2009

Ann Arbor News abandons print, goes online

The Ann Arbor News published its final edition on Thursday, the latest US newspaper to abandon print for an online future. "Farewell, Ann Arbor," read a banner headline on the last edition of the 174-year-old daily, the only newspaper in the town in the northern state of Michigan. The closure of the Ann Arbor News makes the city, which has a population of nearly 115,000 and is home to the University of Michigan, one of the largest in the United States without a daily newspaper. Advance Publications, which owns the Ann Arbor News, is replacing the paper, which had a circulation of nearly 50,000, with a website, AnnArbor.com, which will also publish a print edition on Thursdays and Sundays. Michigan is among the US states hardest hit by job losses and the two major newspapers in the recession-hit US auto capital, the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News, cut back home delivery to just three days a week in March. Like other US newspapers, the Ann Arbor News has been grappling with falling print advertising revenue, declining circulation and free news online. (AFP)

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