The 100 year Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) between The Detroit Free Press (Freep) and The Detroit News, begun in 1989, will come to an end after 36 years with the close of 2025. From The Detroit Free Press (by former Gil Thorp writer Neal Rubin): The joint operating agreement that helped sustain two daily newspapers […]
Barbara Brandon-Croft made history as the nation’s first Black woman cartoonist to break into mainstream press with her groundbreaking comic strip “Where I’m Coming From,” which debuted in the Detroit Free Press in 1989. By 1991, Universal Press Syndicate was distributing her work to more than sixty mainstream newspapers internationally, where it continued until 2005. […]
During an email exchange (Hi Grant) it was revealed to me that the Detroit Free Press (Freep) was a part of the Gannett/USA Today Network that was not following corporate orders to run some combination of The Gannett 34. The full daily Gannett comics lineup of 33 (no Sunday only Foxtrot) below. Instead the Detroit […]