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