August 4, 2005

News, Free Press change owners in a three-way deal

A story about the new owners of The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press includes a comment by Ben Burns, director of the WSU journalism program. He said he believes the new owners of The News, MediaNews Group, will put more resources into the paper than did the former owners, Gannett Co. He described William Dean Singleton, CEO of Media News, as "a very tough, smart newspaper publisher."

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