Sign of the times: Detroit Free Press ceases most home delivery

By GottaLaff

Via TPM:

From the Journal (sub.req.) ...

The publisher of the Detroit Free Press, the country's 20th largest paper by weekday circulation, is expected to announce next week that it will cease home delivery of the print edition of the newspaper on most days of the week, according to a person familiar with the company's thinking.

The publisher hasn't made a final decision, said this person, but the leading scenario set to be unveiled Tuesday would call for the Free Press and its partner paper, the Detroit News, to end home delivery on all but the most lucrative days--Thursday, Friday and Sunday. On the other days, the publisher would sell single copies of an abbreviated print edition at newsstands and direct readers to the papers' expanded digital editions.

I'm a fan of actual print newspapers, the kind I can hold in my hands. Watching all these publishers fade away is like watching old friends die.