For 25 years, orientation program has helped newcomers understand city #DetroitNews

Mary Kramer - For years, in the 1970s and 1980s, Detroit boosters blamed the media for the city's poor image. The media often responded: We just hold the mirror and reflect reality. One recommendation coming out of the massive "Detroit Strategic Plan" created in 1987-88 by Detroit Renaissance (the forerunner of Business Leaders for Michigan) was a program to help reporters and editors new to Southeast Michigan understand the city's history and its problems in a larger context. Wayne State University took up

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