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The Midland Daily News is a six-day newspaper serving the Mid-Michigan area, including Midland, Bay  and Gladwin counties.

The region is located the middle of Michigan’s lower peninsula – the center of “the Mitten.”

Unique flavor

Here are a few of the acronyms and proper nouns you may see in stories and use in headlines:

• Midland Public Schools: MPS
• Michigan State Police: MSP
• Midland Police Department: MPD
• Midland High School: MHS
• Dow High School: Dow High
• Central Michigan University: CMU (Mascot: Chippewas)
• Saginaw Valley State University: SVSU (Mascot: Cardinals)
• Delta College: Delta (Mascot: Pioneers)
• Meridian: Meridian Public Schools
• Midland Center For the Arts: MCFTA
• Women of Michigan Action Network: WOMAN
• Bay City Western High School: BC Western

Michigan government

• County governments are in charge of areas not in a city or townships. A county commission of elected officials oversees the county administrator who actually runs day-to-day county operations – excluding the County Road Commission, which operates independently.
• City commission is an elected body that oversees the city administrator who runs the who day-to-day operations.
• Townships and villages are the smallest unit of government we cover – independent of county and city government.

Newspaper cadence

Monday (generally A 8 pages; B 6 pages)

• A1: Front page
• A2: Jump page
• A3: Inside Front Page

• • Includes centerpiece, misc. lighter news stories and MyMichigan Health column. DO NOT jump content to this page.

• A4: Opinion

• • Dr. Omar Haqqani, Savvy Senior by Jim Miller, “Roses” editorial column and an editorial cartoon.

• A5: Syndicated

• • Dear Abby and Dr. Roach every day.
  • Sudoku
  • Fill remainder with What’s Happening events calendar.

• A6: TV grid and TV news
• A7: Jumps
• A8: Weather grid, obits, jumps.
• B1: Sports front
• B2: Sports page 2

• • Mix of jumps, wire, agate.

• B3: Comics and crossword puzzle
• B4-6: Classifieds, jumps, fill

 

Tuesday-Friday (generally A 8 pages; B 8 pages)

• A1: Front page
• A2: Jump page
• A3: Inside Front Page

• • Includes centerpiece, misc. lighter news stories and Midland County Crime Log on bottom of page. DO NOT jump content to this page. Try not to jump content FROM this page.

• A4: Opinion

• • Letters to the editor, local or syndicated columns and an editorial cartoon.

• A5: Syndicated

• • Dear Abby and Dr. Roach every day.
  • Fill remainder with What’s Happening events calendar.

• A6: TV grid and TV news
• A7: Jumps
• A8: Weather grid, obits, jumps.
• B1: Sports front
• B2: Sports page 2

• • Mix of jumps, wire, agate.

• B3: Comics and crossword puzzle
• B4-6: Classifieds, jumps, fill

 

Saturday (generally A 8 pages; B 6 pages)

Tuesday-Friday (generally A 8 pages; B 8 pages)

• A1: Front page
• A2: Jump page
• A3: Inside Front Page

• • Includes centerpiece, Meet Your Neighbor, Business Matters and Crime Log. DO NOT jump content to this page. Try not to jump content FROM this page.

• A4: Opinion

• • Letters to the editor, local or syndicated columns and an editorial cartoon.

• A5-6: Jumps
• A7: Jumps
• A8: Weather grid, obits, jumps.
• B1: Sports front
• B2: Sports page 2

• • Mix of jumps, wire, agate.

• B3: Comics and crossword puzzle
• B4-6: Classifieds, jumps, fill
• C1: Local (4 pages)

• • Business Matters
  • Toast of the Town beer column

• C2-4

• • Classifieds, jumps, fill

• D1: Accent (8 pages)

• • A mix of local and syndicated content

• D2: Sudoku answers and jumps
• D3: LA Times Crossword Puzzle, cribbage scores, puzzle answers
• D4-5: TV Grid info for Saturday and Sunday
• D6: Parent’s Corner event schuedule, Barley McTavish column
• D7: Throwback history photo feature
• D8: Comics and Crossword Puzzle

Wire for all MI dailies: State wire first, but not Detroit-centric news wire (particularly crime, unless it’s big news; state briefs can be packaged as one)

Sports wire: Major sports Detroit teams (Lions, Tigers, Wings, Pistons), Michigan, Michigan State football and basketball; NASCAR, golf; otherwise, major national sporting events

 

Huron Daily Tribune (Bad Axe, MI)

Pub: Tue-Sat

Every day, unless noted below

A          2 Jumps, local, corrections

3 Obits, weather, crop report, local

4 Wire

5 Advice/sudoku

6 Wire

7 Wire

8 Wire

B          2 Sports agate (can move to open b&w page)

3 Jumps/wire

4 Comics/puzzles/horoscope

5 Class

6 Class/sports fill

 

Wed/Sat

A          4 Opinion

 

Fri

A          8 MiBrew

 

Sat

Z          4 Weekend comics pages via RBMA

 

Midland Daily News (Midland, MI)

Pub: Mon-Sat

Every day, unless noted below

A          2 Jumps, local

3 Second cover – local

4 Opinion

5 Advice, what’s happening, sudoku

6 TV grid, sports on TV

7 Local, wire

8 Weather graphic, obits, wire – obits can move to another page if fit is a problem; color preferred, not necessary; move weather graphic first, to B if necessary

B          2 Agate

3 Comics/puzzles

4 Sports

5 Class

6 Class/sports

 

Wed

A          3 Midland remembers

 

Fri

A          8 MiBrew page (source from HDT)

 

Sat

B          Outdoors page, if space available

C          1 Local cover (section built Friday)

2-3 class

4 Local/jumps/what’s happening

D          1 Accent cover (section built Wednesday morning)

2 Abby, sudoku, jumps

3 LA Times xword, jumble, last week’s puz answer

4 Sat TV grid, sports on TV

5 Sun TV grid, sports on TV jump

6 Parents corner, Barley, Local cable TV grid

7 Local history photo page

8 Comics

Z          4 Weekend comics pages via RBMA

 

Pioneer (Big Rapids, MI)

Pub: Mon-Sat

Every day, unless noted below

A          2 Events calendar, jumps, local

3 Obits, local, jumps

4 Local, wire

5 Wire

6 Advice/horoscope/comics

7 Puzzles

8 Wire

B          2 Agate

3 Sports

4-6 Class/sports

 

Mon

A          4 Opinion

5 Biz, with Motley Fool graphic

6 Food: Amish kitchen, wire recipes

 

Tue

A          Books page (usually 5A)

 

Thu

A          7 Seniors (can move)

B          8 Home improvement (tied to ad)

 

Fri

A          8 MiBrew page (source from HDT)

 

Sat

A          6 Religion: pastor’s pen, wire (tied to ad)

B          Outdoors (if space allows, can move to A over national wire)

C          1 Lifestyles cover (often shared with Manistee, produced Tue morning)

2-3 comics (pdfs in shopper); Note: BR and MNA run same comics, but footer ads (page templates) are different

4 Jumps, local, wire

 

Manistee News Advocate (Manistee, MI)

Pub: Mon-Sat

Every day, unless noted below

A          2 Obits, jumps, local

3 Second cover, local

4 Opinion

5 Looking back, jumps

6 Service directory

7 Jumps, local, wire

8 Jumps, local, wire

B          2 Agate

3 Comics/horoscope/Abby/Dr. Roizen

4 Puzzles

5-6 Class/sports

 

Tue

A          7 Museum page

 

Wed   

A          Education page (local, best fit)

 

Thu

A          Entertainment page (local, best fit)

Biz page (best fit)

 

Fri

A          5 Religion (Pastor’s pen, wire – tied to ad)

A          8 MiBrew page (source from HDT)

 

Sat

A          Seniors page (local, best fit)

C          1 Lifestyles cover (often shared with BR, produced Tue morning)

            2-3 Weekend comics pdf via shopper

4 Jumps, local, wire