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The Ann Arbor News is a formerly daily newspaper in Michigan that was turned into a local news website called AnnArbor.com from 2009 to 2013.
The News, now published twice a week, was closed as a daily newspaper by the Newhouse family’s Advance Publications newspaper chain in July 2009. It was reborn the next day as AnnArbor.com with a staff of 35 journalists. The company continued to issue a print edition also called AnnArbor.com twice a week.
In 2013, Advance folded AnnArbor.com into its statewide template, MLive.com. The print edition, which continued to run twice a week, was renamed The Ann Arbor News. The circulation had dropped from 45,000 in 2009 to 30,000 in 2013.
In March 2011, a round of layoffs affected at least 12 employees, including at least six of its editorial staff and the site’s lead blogger.
At its launch, the site was noted for its design, which was a strictly reverse-chronological list of articles. The design was criticized for burying breaking news, and a “Top Stories” layer has since been added. The site also includes work from about 70 unpaid community bloggers.
The Atlantic is an American magazine that features political and cultural commentary. It is published 10 times a year. The magazine was founded as The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 by a group of prominent writers including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It was based in Boston until moving to Washington in…
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