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Overview
The Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News, which share printing and business operations under a joint agreement but keep separate newsrooms, are Michigan's largest newspapers. The Grand Rapids Press, the Flint Journal, the Kalamazoo Gazette, the Ann Arbor News, the Saginaw News, the Muskegon Chronicle and the Jackson Citizen Patriot publish together as MLive, and the Lansing State Journal, the Traverse City Record-Eagle, the Times Herald in Port Huron, the Bay City Times and the Mining Journal in Marquette cover their regions. Bridge Michigan covers state policy online.
Michigan newspapers carry the legal notices state law requires for foreclosures, estates and government actions, publish obituaries for 83 counties, and hold court coverage that pairs with county circuit court searches.
Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.
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Michigan Newspapers
Find local and statewide newspaper publications for Michigan. Access news, sports, classified, entertainment, and archived articles.
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Major Michigan newspapers and what they cover
The Free Press covers Detroit, Wayne County, the auto industry, state government and the federal court, with back issues from the 1830s onward in the digital archives. The News covers the same territory with a business and courts focus. MLive covers the outstate cities from Grand Rapids to Saginaw, the State Journal covers the Capitol and Ingham County, and the Record-Eagle covers northern lower Michigan. Upper Peninsula and rural weeklies such as the Daily Mining Gazette in Houghton, the Alpena News and the Cadillac News carry county board minutes, sheriff's reports and probate notices.
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Historic Michigan newspapers online
Digital Michigan Newspapers at Central Michigan University offers free digitized Michigan newspapers from communities across the state, and Michigan titles appear in Chronicling America. The Library of Michigan in Lansing holds newspaper microfilm for every county and lends it through interlibrary loan, and the Detroit Public Library provides free access to the Free Press and News archives with a library card. The Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan holds early Detroit and Ann Arbor titles.
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Legal notices, public notices and obituaries in Michigan
Michigan law requires foreclosure by advertisement notices, probate notices to creditors, name changes, tax foreclosure lists and county and township notices to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, and the Michigan Press Association collects them in a statewide search. The dailies and most weeklies in Michigan publish obituaries, and the Library of Michigan and the Detroit Public Library keep obituary indexes. Court coverage pairs with the circuit court case searches that most Michigan counties post online.
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Straight answers
Michigan Newspaper Directory, questions
What are Michigan's largest newspapers?
The Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News, followed by the MLive papers led by the Grand Rapids Press, the Lansing State Journal and the Traverse City Record-Eagle.
Where are historic Michigan newspapers online?
Digital Michigan Newspapers at Central Michigan University offers free digitized titles from across the state, and Chronicling America adds more.
Where are Michigan foreclosure notices published?
Foreclosure by advertisement notices run in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, collected in the Michigan Press Association's statewide public notice search.