The Ann Arbor (Michigan) News, after 174 years, is folding in July and being replaced by AnnArbor.com, a new company that will publish a print newspaper twice a week and distribute a total market coverage (TMC) print product weekly, Publisher Laurel Champion told the newspaper's staff Monday morning. "While this is an incredibly difficult decision for us, this is by no means the end of local journalism in Ann Arbor," Champion told the paper. The News is hosting community forums about AnnArbor.com on April 2 and 3.
The newspaper is owned by the Newhouse family's Advance Newspapers.
The news comes as three other newspapers owned by the Newhouse family's Advance Publications -- The Flint Journal, The Saginaw News and The Bay City Times -- announced they were cutting print publication to three days a week starting June 1. Advance owns eight daily newspapers in Michigan.
Major announcements have also been scheduled at Newhouse's dailies in Newark and Harrisburg, Pa.
Editing and production work for the state's four remaining Advance dailies -- the Jackson Citizen Patriot, The Grand Rapids Press, the Kalamazoo Gazette and The Muskegon Chronicle -- will be consolidated in Grand Rapids this summer, the Gazette reported.
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