Detroit: Communications

Detroit: Communications

Newspapers and Magazines

The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press are the city's two major daily newspapers; they publish joint editions on Saturday, Sunday, and holidays. Hour Detroit is a glossy metropolitan lifestyle and interview magazine that aims "to feature Detroit in its finest hour." Real Detroit and Metro Times provide weekly entertainment schedules as well as reviews, humor, and commentary. The monthly newspaper Latino Press aims to help Detroit's growing Hispanic community. The Michigan Chronicle is geared toward African American readers.

A number of nationally circulated periodicals originate in Detroit. Among them are Solidarity, a monthly publication of the United Automobile Workers; Better Investing; Manufacturing Engineering; Autoweek, a weekly magazine for car enthusiasts; and Automotive News, Ward's Automotive Report and Auto World, auto industry magazines. Football News publishes 20 issues during the football season.

Television and Radio

Detroit television viewers receive broadcasts from eight stations: three national networks affiliates, three independent, one public, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Pay and cable television services are available in the Detroit metropolitan area. AM and FM radio stations schedule a full range of formats. The most popular is adult contemporary music; other formats include adult-oriented rock, African American and African American contemporary, Mo-town, classic rock, easy listening, jazz, middle of the road, modern country, news and news-talk, pop, oldies, solid gold, and urban contemporary rhythm and blues. Two of the AM stations with 50,000-watt capacity enjoy a longstanding popularity throughout the Midwest; one FM station was the first in the country to offer a full-time news-talk format. Detroit's public radio station originates from Wayne State University, but other National Public Radio programming can be picked up from Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, and Lansing stations.

Media Information: Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, 321 W. Lafayette Blvd., Detroit, Michigan 48226; telephone (313)222-6400

Detroit Online

City of Detroit home page. Available www.ci.detroit.mi.us

Detroit Free Press. Available www.freep.com

Detroit Institute of Arts. Available www.dia.org

Detroit Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau. Available www.visitdetroit.com

Detroit News. Available www.detnews.com

Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce. Available www.detroitchamber.com

Detroit Riverfront Conservancy. Available www.detroitriverfront.org

"The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit" (photographs and descriptions of Detroit's proud, old buildings). Available http://detroityes.com

Greater Downtown Partnership. Available www.downtownpartnership.org

Guide to Detroit from The Mining Company. Available detroit.miningco.com

Wayne County Economic Development. Available www.waynecounty.com

Selected Bibliography

Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson, The Dollmaker (New York: Avon Books, 1972, 1954)

Avery, Joan, Angel of Passage (Harper, 1993)

Bak, Richard Detroit Across 3 Centuries (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2001)

Chafets, Ze'Ev, Devil's Night And Other True Tales of Detroit (New York: Random House, 1990)

Georgakas, Dan Georgakas, et al., Detroit, I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Classics Series) (South End Press, 1998)

Henrickson, Wilma Wood, ed., Detroit Perspectives: Crossroads and Turning Points (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991)

Leonard, Elmore Out of Sight (New York: Delacorte, 1996)

Lichtenstein, Nelson, The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor (New York: Basic Books, 1996)

Lindsay, Paul, Witness to the Truth: A Novel of the FBI (New York: Random House, 1992)