Some news coverage of the suburbs is moving to the central city as more white collar jobs from the Observer & Eccentric (i.e. Gannett) move to downtown Detroit.
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The reporters, editors, and administrative staff of the Livonia-based Observer & Eccentric Newspapers will move later this year to the downtown Detroit offices of their parent company, the Detroit Media Partnership, as part of a cost-cutting move.
The decision, which also shuffles other O&E staff at satellite offices, was e-mailed to all staffers Tuesday by Kristi Bowden, the partnership's vice president of human resources.
Neither Bowden nor Rich Harshbarger, the partnership's vice president of consumer marketing, knew how many employees at the dozen newspapers will be affected, although Harshbarger estimated it at 30 to 50.
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