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| Type | Online/Bi-weekly print (Thursday & Sunday) |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Advance Magazine Publishers, Inc. D.B.A.Booth Newspapers, Inc. |
| Publisher | Tim Gruber |
| Editor | John Count |
| Founded | 1835[1] |
| Ceased publication | July 23, 2009 |
| Relaunched | 2013 |
| Headquarters | 111 N. Ashley St. Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Circulation | 8,196 Daily 14,352 Sunday (as of 2022)[2] |
| Website | mlive |
The Ann Arbor News is anewspaper servingWashtenaw andLivingston counties inMichigan.[3] Published daily online throughMLive.com, the paper also publishes print editions on Thursdays and Sundays.
Published inAnn Arbor under various names from 1835 to 2009,The News was part ofBooth Newspapers, owned after 1976 byAdvance Publications.The News was published in the afternoons Monday through Friday and in the mornings on weekends and holidays. It published special sections throughout the year.
The newspaper ended its 174-year print run on July 23, 2009. The publisher blamed the loss ofclassified advertising revenue (which moved toCraigslist), and noted "the seven-day-a-week print model just is not sustainable here. We have very low home ownership. The population is transient and young. Those demographics have worked against us."[1]
The Ann Arbor News was replaced by a website,AnnArbor.com, which carried daily news stories and was accompanied by print editions on Thursdays and Sundays.[4][5] Of the 272 people employed as of the announcement of the paper's closing, "more than a dozen" were hired for AnnArbor.com.[1]
The closure also endedLivingston Community News, a free weekly newspaper for Livingston County published from 2003 to 2009 by theAnn Arbor News.[6]
The company closed theAnn Arbor Business Review at the same time and moved the weekly publication under the brand of AnnArbor.com.[7] Several employees ofAnn Arbor Business Review were hired by the new company.
The Ann Arbor News is believed to be the first daily newspaper to fail in an American city with only one for-profit daily newspaper.[8] (A Monday-through-Friday paper,The Michigan Daily, is the student newspaper of the University of Michigan and is non-profit.)
In 2013, AnnArbor.com was transitioned to MLive.com along with Advance Publications' other Michigan newspapers and renamedThe Ann Arbor News.[9]
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From 1936 until its closing in 2009,The Ann Arbor News owned and occupied a three-storyArt Deco-style building at the corner of Huron and Division streets in downtown Ann Arbor. It is the only commercial building in the city designed by famed architectAlbert Kahn.[11] The building was sold to the University of Michigan Credit Union in 2010.[12]
