The April 25, 2010 front page of The Macomb Daily |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Journal Register Company |
| Headquarters | Mt. Clemens, Michigan United States |
| Official website | macombdaily.com |
The Macomb Daily is a daily newspaper based in Mount Clemens, Michigan. It is the only daily newspaper serving Macomb County, Michigan, making the county the largest in Michigan in terms of population with only one daily newspaper. It is owned by the Journal Register Company.
The Macomb Daily is co-owned with the Oakland Press and the (Royal Oak) Daily Tribune, both in Oakland County, and the (Southgate) News-Herald. As a result of their co-ownership, staff writers from those newspapers often appear in The Macomb Daily, and staff writers of the Daily appear in those same newspapers in return. The two Macomb Daily staff writers who appear most often in the other Journal Register newspapers in the Detroit area are Bruce MacLeod and Chuck Pleiness, the Journal Register group's Detroit Red Wings beat writers. The writers from the other Detroit area Journal Register newspapers who appear frequently in The Macomb Daily are Oakland Press staff writers Gary Graff (who covers pop music), Jim Hawkins (Detroit Tigers), Paula Pasche (Detroit Lions), and Dave Pemberton (Detroit Pistons and Michigan State Spartans) and the News-Herald's Matthew Mowery (Michigan Wolverines).
The Macomb Daily was formed by the merger of The Mt. Clemens Monitor Leader, The South Macomb News and The Tri City Progress in the early 1970s. Panax Newspapers was the company that once owned the new Macomb Daily until John McGoff got into legal problems buying the Sacramento Union with money from South Africa. The Macomb Daily was part of Global Communication and later SEM Newspapers in the late 1970s and 1980s. The Macomb Daily operated Monday thru Saturday and grew rapidly from 38,000 to 56,000 newspapers daily. This rapid expansion forced the owners to build a new printing plant in Clinton Township on 15 Mile and Garfield at 35110 Garfield Road. Since expanded and still printing many of the chain newspapers at this plant with some commercial printing. The Macomb Daily was one of the first daily newspaper to automate it circulation onto computers and has a large fleet of 20 delivery vans that date back to 1977 with the Ford Macomb Daily Blue with White strips. In 1982 The Macomb Daily decided to make The Community News its TMC edition in the southend and The Advisor in the northern end of the county.
The Macomb Daily built a new editorial and business operation center at 100 Macomb Daily Ln on the shores of the Clinton River in Mt.Clemens just outside of the downtown core of Mt. Clemens in the 1990s. Currently the old Macomb Daily Building at 67 Cass Street sat empty with plan after plan failed to restore the building.
The Macomb Daily has always been a underdog newspaper doing battle with the larger Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. Macomb County shined with a national spotlight during the Presidential election of Ronald Reagan. The term Reagan Democrats were phrased here in Macomb County typically a blue collar Democratic area. The Macomb Daily is a local newspaper and is known for a conservative view on similar line to The Detroit News which also have a printing plant just around the corner from Macomb Daily. This newspaper suffered for awhile with many mergers and expanded to 7 days around the late 1990s and is doing very well now. The old motto "Better Than Ever" is now a reality.
The Macomb Daily is the newspaper which appears at the end of the current policy trailer for MJR Theaters, a regional movie theater chain.