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Don't laugh -- the Detroit River, which connects the upper Great Lakes with Lakes Erie and Ontario, has become one of the best urban fisheries in the world as it's cleaned up over the past few decades.

This video by the Free Press' Brian Kaufman is shot completely with the Canon 5D, some before and some after the recent firmware upgrade that gives the camera much more versatility with its settable f-stop and shutter speed.

Brian even taped the camera to his climbing helmet for a kayaker's-eye-… Continue

We've announced a partnership with WWJ-TV, the CBS-owned station in Detroit to provide headlines and video packages for an early morning show starting in early May.

First things first: we're hiring a TV-experienced host/anchor/reporter to be the face of the Free Press on this show and on freep.com. Full job details are on Poynter:

http://careers.poynter.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=3101251

What's this mean?

It means that we'll be able to show/promote our print and online product to the morning TV a… Continue

I've never been one to ask for autographs -- it just doesn't appeal to me...

But at the Detroit Tigers Spring Training camp in Florida this year, our Eric Seals got a number of players and fans talking about what it's like from both sides of the pen...

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Here at the Freep we've kicked off an ambitious project -- Fifty videos on "Motown at 50" as the famous record label reaches its 50th anniversary later this year.

The first two videos are the longest, the first focusing on Holland-Dozier-Holland, the three fellows who wrote so many of… Continue

You know how you have to photograph wards of the state and usually have to come up with a way to photograph them from behind, as silhouettes, or just their hands, etc? You know the sinking feeling when you arrive at such an assignment and are told, "No faces?"

If you've shot that ass… Continue