At the time, the Detroit Free Press was the tenth-highest circulation paper in the United States, and the combined Detroit News and Free Press was the country's fourth-largest Sunday paper. The two papers also began to publish joint Saturday and Sunday editions, though the editorial content of each remained separate. The combined company is called the Detroit Media Partnership. In 1989, the paper entered into a one hundred-year joint operating agreement with its rival, combining business operations while maintaining separate editorial staffs. During that period The Detroit News was sold and delivered as an afternoon newspaper.ġ989–present: Joint operating agreement A morning 'Blue Streak Edition' was available at news stands beginning around 1965, meaning the Free Press actually printed two editions per day. The Free Press was delivered and sold as a night paper, with home deliveries made after 7:00 pm until around 1966. During the next 20 years, the Free Press competed in the southeastern Michigan market with The Detroit News and the Detroit Times, until the Times was purchased and closed by The Detroit News on November 7, 1960. In 1940, the Knight Newspapers (later Knight Ridder) purchased the Free Press. Quinby, who continued its Democratic leanings and established a London, England edition. In the 1870s ownership passed to William E. Storey left for the Chicago Times in 1861, taking much of the staff with him. In the 1850s, the paper was developed into a leading Democratic Party–aligned publication under the ownership of Wilbur F. Sheldon McKnight became the first publisher with his uncle John Pitts Sheldon as the editor.

The first issues were 14 by 20 inches (360 mm × 510 mm) in size, with five columns of type. The hand-operated press required two men and could produce 250 pages per hour. It was hauled from Pontiac in a wagon over rough roads to a building at Bates and Woodbridge streets in Detroit. Williams printed the first issues on a Washington press he purchased from the discontinued Oakland Chronicle of Pontiac.

It was renamed to Detroit Daily Free Press in 1835, becoming the region's first daily newspaper. Williams and his uncle, Joseph Campau, and was first published as the Democratic Free Press and Michigan Intelligencer on May 5, 1831. History 1831–1989: Competitive newspaper 1.2 1989–present: Joint operating agreement.In 2018, the Detroit Free Press received two Salute to Excellence awards from the National Association of Black Journalists. The Free Press has received ten Pulitzer Prizes and four Emmy Awards. The Free Press is also the largest city newspaper owned by Gannett, which also publishes USA Today.

It is sometimes referred to as the Freep (reflected in the paper's web address, It primarily serves Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, Washtenaw, and Monroe counties. The Sunday edition is titled the Sunday Free Press. The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, US. The September 11, 2011, front page of the Detroit Free Press, with Eric Millikin art and Mitch Albom column about the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

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