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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | MLive Media Group (Advance Publications) |
| Publisher | Tim Gruber |
| Editor | Monica Scott |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 169 Monroe Ave NW #100, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 |
| Circulation | 21,433 Daily 50,834 Sunday (as of 2022)[1] |
| Sister newspapers | The Lakeshore Press |
| ISSN | 2574-8378 (print) 2691-9419 (web) |
| OCLC number | 9975013 |
| Website | www |
The Grand Rapids Press is a daily newspaper published inGrand Rapids, Michigan. It is the largest of the print publications ofMLive Media Group. It is sold for $1.50 daily and $7.99 on Sunday.
AccuWeather provides weather content to theGrand Rapids Press.
The Morning Press was founded by William J. Sproat and appeared on Monday, September 1, 1890. Sproat was itsproprietor until November 5, 1891, when control passed to the Press Publishing company. Soon after, the controlling interest in the company was purchased by George G. Booth, who in 1892 bought the rivalGrand Rapids Eagle and merged it with thePress. January 1, 1893, thePress went into the evening daily field, which it has since occupied.
This newspaper at first was published at 63 Pearl Street. Then for a number of years it occupied a building on theGrand River at the southeast end of the Pearl Street bridge. In 1906 it moved to a new home at Fulton Street and Sheldon Avenue.
The paper was published downtown at the corner of Monroe and Michigan until 2004 when the printing facility was moved to the northern suburb ofWalker. The Walker facility was closed in October, 2020, and sold in 2021 to an industrial contracting firm.[2][3] The newspaper is now printed in Cleveland, OH, at the same facility that prints thePlain Dealer. The editorial and newsroom offices are now at 169 Monroe Ave. NW, suite 100. They hire aspiring journalists through an internship program.
Home delivery for thePress,Muskegon Chronicle andKalamazoo Gazette were cut back to Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays in 2012; on the other days in which theGrand Rapids Press is published, subscribers receive an e-edition of that day's newspaper. The print edition of each day'sPress continues to be available in newsstands.
