Metro Times

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Metro Times

Inner cover of the February 1-7, 2006 Metro Times - The outer cover also has this image but with a Budweiser advertisement covering the lower right corner.
Type Alternative weekly
Format Tabloid
Owner Times-Shamrock
Publisher Lisa Rudy
Editor W. Kim Heron
Founded
Headquarters 733 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48226
Flag of United States United States
Circulation 100,758[1]
Website: metrotimes.com

The Metro Times (originally Detroit Metro Times) is the largest circulating weekly newspaper in the metro Detroit area. Supported entirely by advertising, it is distributed free of charge every Wednesday in newsstands in businesses and libraries around the city and suburbs. Compared to the two dailies, the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News, the Metro Times has a liberal orientation. Average circulation for the Metro Times is over 100,000 weekly. Average readership is over 700,000 weekly.[1]

Its columnists include Keith A. Owens and Wayne State University journalism professor Jack Lessenberry. Its personals advertising are more widely read than those of the two dailies.

Every year, the Metro Times has reader fiction and photography contests judged by famous local writers and photographers. Its annual "Best of Detroit" survey bestows local businesses with highly sought honors.

The Metro Times considers itself "alternative media," often featuring news items ignored by the dailies. It also uses profanity not used by the dailies.

Syndicated features run by the Metro Times include the cartoon Perry Bible Fellowship (which replaced Tom Tomorrow's cartoon This Modern World), Dan Savage's Savage Love sex advice column (which replaced Isadora Duncan's Ask Isadora sex advice column) and Rob Brzezny's Free Will Astrology. Starting with the January 19 - 25 issue, the Metro Times has its own exclusive crossword, crafted by Brooklyn-based cruciverbalist Ben Tausig, who appears in the documentary Wordplay.

The Metro Times won 12 awards from the Michigan Press Association in 2006. The paper also won awards in 2005 and 2004.

  1. ^ a b Metro Times. Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Retrieved on 2007-02-07.


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