The Ann Arbor (Mich.) News will publish its last issue Thursday, July 23.
Advance Publications Inc. in March said it would fold the 174-year-old daily in favor of a new Web-centric news operation, dubbed AnnArborNews.com. The organization will continue to print a newspaper two days a week, with the first published edition scheduled for Sunday, July 26, according to Publisher Laurel Champion.
Advance will continue to operate the production plant, which will print the new organization’s paper. The facility, anchored by a Goss International Corp. Magnum press, also produces a regional edition of The New York Times, the Jackson (Mich.) Patriot-Citizen and other products.
Meantime, Gannett Co. Inc. closed the Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen May 16, four months after it announced it would shutter the paper if it couldn’t find a buyer. Gannett said it would continue to operate the Citizen’s Web site as an opinion and community discussion page.
The shutdown came as a federal judge this morning held a hearing to stop the paper’s closing. A California newspaper publisher who said he wanted to continue publishing the Citizen asked the Arizona’s attorney general to stop the closure.
At press time, no decision had been reached.
Monday, May 18, 2009
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