EMU alum Nathan Bomey and Dan Meisler (I’m not sure if Dan was one of ours or not) have an article on MLive Ann Arbor Business, New weekly enters changing Ann Arbor news market. I think the title is somewhat misleading because it’s really about weeklies– as in more than one– coming to Ann Arbor this summer as the AANews closes up in late July. There’s Ann Arbor.com, which is rising from the ashes of the AAN as a web site and as a Thursday/Sunday paper, and now there is A2Journal, which (so far) is a Twitter page promising to be a once a week newspaper operated by Herritage Newspapers, which operates a lot of weekly newspapers in southeast Michigan.
Besides those outlets, as the site mentions, you’ve got The Ann Arbor Chronicle, which has already done a pretty good job of reporting local news– see, for example, this long and detailed piece about the email follies of Ann Arbor city council. There’s Concentrate, which is more an Ann Arbor/Ypsi PR site than a news site, but still, interesting stuff.
And there is other stuff locally and in the blogosphere: The Eastern Echo,The Michigan Daily, The Ypsilanti Citizen, and lots of other local blogs linked here (not to mention yours truly).
So I’m starting to feel kind of comfortable about a post-AANews world.
Took a browse of the Eastern Echo and *shock* not 1 individual writer in the opinion section is Conservative. They are all across the board liberal to far left leaning liberal.
So, I guess even with Ann Arbor News Paper gone…. Nothing has changed!
Conservatism still in EXILE on Eastern Michigan’s campus for at least a half century and counting.
You’re right. I’ve never heard of the College Republicans or seen the people protesting abortion outside of Pray Harrold and McKenny. They’ve been in exile.
By the way, there is also a church that holds service in Pray Harrold on Sundays. You should check it out.