Categories: OLD Media Moves

Free Press overhauls Sunday biz section

Christopher Kirkpatrick, the business editor of the Detroit Free Press, writes about the changes to the paper’s Sunday business section, now called Michigan Business.

Kirkpatrick writes, “It’s replete with features providing sophisticated statewide news. Our new “Building Michigan’ page offers development news about metro Detroit and around the state. Check our feature on Page 2B about the Whole Foods development project in Midtown Detroit and the story about the surge in venture capital spending across the state. Our new ‘Work Smart’ page offers perspectives and advice from business leaders and entrepreneurs about how to live a better business life, start your own business or get that promotion. We have more news of business leaders on the move and compile a weekly business calendar of events so you know who’s in town speaking and where you might want to network. You’ll still get our same rich coverage of automotive news, and our commitment to metro Detroit will not waver.

“In addition, we’ve changed our approach to stock listings, providing a concise roundup of select Michigan and U.S. stocks, plus charts of the weekly winners and laggards – Wall Street information you can truly use. The Free Press has provided extensive stock listings for decades, but the world has changed and that information can be found at any time on the Web.

“On a February trip to Grand Rapids, I sat across from two business leaders who said their city’s reputation suffers when Detroit is viewed by out-of-state investors or businesses as failing and dangerous. Conversely, those who see Detroit as a burgeoning tech hub, reinventing its downtown and creating new jobs, also notice the massive redevelopment that has transformed Grand Rapids, and the jobs created there and in communities throughout Michigan. They see the investment opportunities.”

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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