During this time, and up until his death in 1959, Edgar A. The Free Press won its first Pulitzer Prize in 1932, and has won 10, more than all other Michigan newspapers combined. During his time as editor and owner, the Evening News (now Detroit News) started publication in 1873, beginning a circulation battle that exists today, and hand-set type was replaced by the linotype, revolutionizing the printing industry. In 1881, the Free Press became the first American newspaper to be published in Europe when William E. This tone faded in time with political shifts and change in ownership. Free Press founders Williams and Campau were slaveholders, and the paper was a mouthpiece for Jacksonian principles. The Free Press, in its early history, despite outwardly noting it was not in favor of slavery and supported the Union cause during the Civil War, regularly printed content that was vehemently anti-abolitionist, and was littered with derogatory terms for African Americans as well as inflammatory racial pieces. However, Storey is also charged with publishing “many items in the guise of news stories designed to heap ridicule on blacks,” according to Frank Angelo’s history of the newspaper. During the Civil War, Storey’s correspondents sent reports from the battlefields, making the Free Press a nationally-known source for the latest news. He emphasized not only the local news but expanded coverage of national news via the telegraph.
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Storey bought the paper in 1853 and created a series of innovative firsts for the Free Press, such as the first regular Sunday edition in the nation. After some waffling back and forth among other titles, Daily Free Press, Free Press and Democratic Free Press, a variety of owners, and a variety of weekly and daily editions, the Detroit Free Press became the permanent name in 1848. The name was changed to Detroit Daily Free Press in 1835 when it became the area’s first daily paper. The newspaper went through a series of name changes, first dropping “Michigan Intelligencer” from the masthead to become the Democratic Free Press in 1832. Sheldon McKnight, former publisher of the Detroit Gazette, was publisher. Williams and his uncle Joseph Campau, under the auspices of their business, Joseph Campau & Company, bought out the Oakland Chronicle in Pontiac, and moved the equipment to an office at the corner of Bates and Woodbridge streets in Detroit. Peters Funeral Home of Grosse Pointe Woods.The first issue of the Detroit Free Press was published on under the name The Democratic Free Press and Michigan Intelligencer. Citing a need to establish a newspaper sympathetic to Andrew Jackson’s Democratic Party, John R. Paul on the Lake Catholic Church (157 Lakeshore Rd, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236) with instate to begin at 9:30 AM. Funeral mass will be held on Monday, Novemat 10:00 a.m. She is survived by two loving children, Diane (Tom) Palmer and Glenn (Deb) Parafin three grandchildren, Brooke (Jacob) Noseda, Cody and Kelsey Parafin. She also enjoyed gardening and playing pinochle, trivia and mah jong with her friends. In earlier years, she loved to golf and bowl. She mostly loved spending time with family. Alice retired in 2002, after 30 years of service working for the East Detroit School System as a secretary to the Director of Personnel. Alice is preceded in death by her husband Peter, who passed away in 2004 sisters Dorothy Hebert, Mary Nobra and brother Charles. She was born in Ralphton, PA, to the late John and Mary (Wozniak) Lakatos. Clair Shores passed away on Thursday, November 10, 2022.
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