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Dustin Walsh - The Detroit Free Press is seeking volunteer layoffs among targeted members of its editorial staff as it tries to cut expenses. The move comes days after rival The Detroit News offered similar buyouts to its entire editorial staff as both papers 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

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