Free Press joins Detroit News in offering staffers buyouts #DetroitNews

Dustin Walsh - The Detroit Free Press is offering buyouts to targeted members of its editorial staff. The move comes days after rival The Detroit News offered similar buyouts to its entire editorial staff as both papers try to cut expenses to deal with an industrywide decline in print advertising revenue. The paper needs to lay off 17 in its editorial department to shore up its 2017 budget, Crain's has learned. The Free Press is seeking to cut 13 percent of its editorial staff, including four assistant

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