• ClickZ , Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:45 AM

Detroit is hardly synonymous with new-economy thinking these days, but the city's two major papers are doing their part to change that. The question is whether it's too little too late.

Both The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press are cutting back on their print products in order to focus more resources on digital media. Starting next year, home deliver of the papers will be limited to Thursday though Sunday, and some days' papers will be reduced to a single section. Meanwhile, the papers will add digital channels and offer subscription-based Web-only editions.

Both papers are owned by the Detroit Media Partnership, which characterized the move to advertisers as an opportunity to reach audiences in new and bold ways.

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