------Original Message------ From: Matthias Krueger To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Sep 22, 2009 10:18 AM Subject: (313) Time magazine Detroit reporting
Time magazine sets up home in Detroit to report on depressed city http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/sep/22/time-magazine-useconomicgrowth Time Inc journalists are spending a year in Detroit, the US city suffering terribly from the downturn in the car industry. [...] Time Inc has bought a six-bedroomed house in the city so that reporters and photographers from its various publications can spend weeks at a time soaking up the atmosphere during the project known as Assignment Detroit. Why Detroit? It has the highest jobless rate in America. A recent study found it to be the worst of 100 US cities in which to raise a family. There has been a giant exodus of people in recent years, halving its population. Thousands of homes have fallen down, leaving behind a patchwork of empty spaces. If you want to know what it's like, take a look at this CNNmoney video. It's a city where people pay $4 for a latte on one corner — if they can find it — and $10 for a rock of cocaine on the other. Time Inc's editor in chief, John Huey, asked the editors of his magazines and websites to think about Detroit stories. So, for the next year, reporters from Time, Fortune, Money, Essence, Sports Illustrated and CNNmoney will be writing from the city. Huey said: "It sounds grandiose, but it is one of the great stories of our time. Detroit is like a prism on any story you want — social, economic, health care, race, education — it is all there. And it is all there in extremis." http://www.time.com/time/detroit http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/assignment_detroit/ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/business/media/21carr.html http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2009/09/20/letter-from-detroit/ Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
