How does the Freep’s digital strategy change in the wake of today’s changes?
I don’t think it changes as much as it expands and speeds up: we will be relentless in breaking news first online, then updating it. Then we’ll analyze and anticipate in print — and whatever other formats readers want information on. Four questions for Rick Epps of the Detroit News: If I pick up today’s News on the newsstand, what do I notice that’s different from last Monday? The News is a two-section newspaper on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, ranging from 30-34 pages, with a strict 50-50 editorial to advertising ratio. On these four days, newspapers are not home-delivered. They are only available at newsstands or coin boxes. Same-day mail subscriptions are available. On Thursday, what I think of as “the new Sunday,” we have a six-section newspaper totaling 80 pages. On Friday, we have a four-section paper. There is a separate sports section everyday. The Free Press, with whom we operate under a Joint Operating Agreement, has the same home delivery cycle that The News does,
