The closing of the Ann Arbor News is garnering media coverage across the region and the country.
Here's what we've found so far. Feel free to add additional links in the comments section below.
Detroit Free Press: Ann Arbor News prints last edition
The Associated Press: The Ann Arbor News hits the streets for last time
Michigan Business Review: As Ann Arbor News operations come to a close, former employees face employment challenges
Former Ann Arbor News reporter Jeff Mortimer writes in the Ann Arbor Chronicle about the closing.
The Ann Arbor News has extensive coverage. View it all and be sure to check out the video memories, as well as a story on what various Ann Arbor News employees are doing next.
Lucy Ann Lance of 1290 AM, Ann Arbor's Business Talk Radio, also has had extensive coverage of the closing this week, including a blog, and audio clips of interviews with current and previous News employees.
Michigan Radio: Ann Arbor News closes after 174 years
I've got a roundup too. A community says goodbye and the Ann Arbor News says it right back.
http://mcwflint.blogspot.com/2009/07/community-says-goodbye-to-its-newspaper.html
Then, there's AnnArbor.com growing bumper crop of recognition
http://mcwflint.blogspot.com/2009/07/annarborcom-growing-bumper-crop-of.html
Its too bad in many ways, I relied on the A2 News when we first moved to an outlying area of Ann Arbor 15 years ago, that allowed our family to experience all sorts of events and places in the area like U-M Natural History Museum, Matthai Botanical Gardens, Santa sing a long at the State Theatre, the Art Fair, Hands On Museum, scores of restaurants, etc. etc. etc. However the journalistic standards of the Ann Arbor News were just too lax, and the left liberal bias of the newspaper just became too overwhelming to stomach day after day. I don't mind reading opinions that differ from my own, but there was rarely enough balance or counterpoint and the reported news most often had some left biased slant attached to it. It became the The Ann Arbor Leftwing Opinion Paper INSTEAD of the News and we had to cancel our subscription as did many other people we know for precisely the same reason. Ann Arbor businesses and events will suffer the most from the demise of the A2 News, however they are also suffering from the overzealous efforts of their traffic police who are padding the city coffers with traffic fines. After buying a copy of the police car tape from the city which clearly showed my innocence of the offense ticketed, and hearing the judge say he was not there to get rid of fines but would reduce the fine because of the tape, we just gave up on the city of Ann Arbor and all of its events and businesses. We now dine and look for family entertainment and business needs from mostly Saline, Brighton, Howell, Plymouth and even Whitmore Lake. And we've found we hardly miss A 2 anymore.