Time Inc. thinks Detroit has big stories not only in its struggles but in its success as well.
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But big stories have to have texture, and there has to be the possibility of uplift.
“There
are individual efforts, amazing stories, and there is a feeling here
that things might get better,” said Mr. Tetzeli, who once taught school
in the city. “The mayor is a very serious person, the opposite of the
one who came before him, and we are coming across people and stories
all the time that suggest that things will get better here.”
Much
of this story has already been told, and told well, by The Detroit Free
Press and The Detroit News, daily newspapers that have reduced home
delivery to three times a week, relying on the Web to deliver news the
rest of the week.
“We’re not here to fill some gap in coverage,”
Mr. Tetzeli said. “The Free Press and The Detroit News have done some
great work under difficult circumstances, including winning a Pulitzer
this year,” he said, sitting at Slows, a barbecue restaurant. “We are
here because we think Detroit stories, about recovery and the failure
to recover, have resonance nationally because of the recession.”
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