Leadership Team
David L. Hunke
CEO, Detroit Media Partnership
Publisher, Detroit Free Press
Dave Hunke was named Publisher of the Detroit Free Press in 2005. The eight-time Pulitzer prize-winning Free Press, with a Sunday circulation of 606,374, stands today as the sixth-largest Sunday newspaper in the United States. Last year, the Free Press became the first newspaper produced Web site in the country ever to be awarded the prestigious Emmy, recognizing the newspaper's outstanding broadband documentary coverage of Michigan National Guard units in Iraq. To date, the Free Press has won a total of three Emmys for videos appearing at freep.com.
In February 2006, Dave was named Chief Executive Officer of Detroit Media Partnership, the agency overseeing all business operations of the Free Press, The Detroit News, as well as a number of Web-based and magazine publishing businesses throughout southeast Michigan. Detroit Media Partnership also acts as advertising sales agent for the following suburban Detroit publications: Observer & Eccentric and Mirror Newspapers, Novi News, Milford Times, Northville Record, South Lyon Herald and Livingston County Daily Press & Argus.
Prior to coming to Detroit, Dave held the position of President and Publisher of the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, New York. Dave's 30-year newspaper and publishing career has spanned assignments in Cincinnati, Ohio; Miami, Florida; Wichita, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri.
Since arriving in Detroit, Dave has become a board member or trustee of the Citizens Research Council, Detroit Regional Chamber, Detroit Economic Club, Detroit Public Television, New Detroit and HAVEN. Dave also serves as chair of the 2008 United Way for Southeastern Michigan campaign.
Dave and his wife Janet (Gantz) reside in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and have two children, Evan, of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and Jenna, residing in Chicago, Illinois.
Susie Ellwood
Executive Vice President/General Manager
Detroit Media Partnership
Susie Ellwood has been Executive Vice President and General Manager for Detroit Media Partnership since February 2006. Prior to the appointment in Detroit, she was corporate Vice President/Market Development for Gannett's Newspaper Division for two years. She served as Vice President, Market Development for Detroit Newspapers for 13 years, from 1991 to 2004.
Before transferring to Detroit, Susie was Vice President and Director of Marketing for the Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock. She joined the Gazette in 1984.
Susie is an Arkansas native and a graduate of Arkansas State University (Jonesboro, AR) with a B.S.E. in business. Before beginning her newspaper career, Susie was Director of Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing for National Investors Life Insurance Company, a company licensed in 22 states and headquartered in Little Rock.
Susie completed several consecutive board terms and served as president of the Market Development & Promotion Federation of the Newspaper Association of America. She received the Distinguished Marketing Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honors bestowed by NAA's MD&P federation. She is an eight-time winner of Gannett's President's Ring award.
She currently serves on the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee for CATCH, Sparky Anderson's charity for children. Susie has also served as honorary chair for the Women In Leadership Conference (a program of Michigan Business & Professional Association).
Susie has two daughters of her own, ages 28 and 29, and four step-children from her marriage to husband Bill, ranging in age from 21 to 36.
Paul Anger
Vice President/Editor
Paul Anger, 59, was named Vice President and Editor of the Detroit Free Press in August 2005.
Under his leadership, the newspaper has enhanced its commitment to watchdog and investigative journalism, launched new products, become an industry leader in video production and video quality, and shown record growth on freep.com.
In the last two years, the Free Press and freep.com have won three national Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for video presentation - in competition with PBS Frontline, National Geographic and Newsweek as well as the New York Times and Washington Post, among others across the country. The Free Press, which presented its first video in fall 2005, has won more national Emmys than any newspaper-based Web site.
Freep.com traffic, including its new Metromix and MomsLikeMe sites, has soared to as many as 3.8 million page views in a single day and more than 50 million in a single month under Paul's watch. And Free Press cartoonist Mike Thompson has twice been a Pulitzer Prize finalist for editorial cartoons for his work in 2005 and 2006.
Paul serves on the Detroit Media Partnership executive committee and is a board member of Detroit's Metropolitan Affairs Coalition. He has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize judge at Columbia University and has been recognized four times with the Gannett Company's President's Ring, awarded annually to the top 10 editors across the company's 80-plus newspapers.
Before coming to Detroit, Paul was Vice President and Editor of the Des Moines Register since January 2002. The Register was a Pulitzer finalist in investigative reporting during his tenure there.
Paul has more than 40 years' experience as a reporter, editor and publisher. He worked for the Miami Herald for 29 years, including stints as Sports Editor, Broward County Editor and Broward Publisher of the Herald. After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, he worked as a news editor for the Knight- Ridder News Service in Washington, D.C., editing national and international coverage that included the war on terrorism and domestic security issues.
He has four children and three step-children with wife Vickie Dahlman-Anger, ranging from 20 to 35 years in age.
Paul grew up in Oshkosh, Wis. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and did news and sports reporting for The Paper for Central Wisconsin, the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern and the Fond du Lac Reporter before taking a job in the Miami Herald sports department in 1972.
Jonathan Wolman
Editor & Publisher
Jonathan Wolman is editor and publisher of The Detroit News and publisher of its Web site, detnews.com. He retired after 31 years with The Associated Press, where he served as Washington bureau chief, managing editor and executive editor. He retired in 2004 as senior vice president and served for three years as editorial page editor of The Denver Post.
The Detroit News is published by MediaNews Group and circulates 175,000 papers Monday through Saturday throughout Michigan. The Detroit News was founded in 1873 and detnews.com was launched in 1995. Jon oversees The Detroit News' administrative and news operations.
Jon, 58, is a native of Madison, Wis., and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.
He served on a committee of five editors which negotiated principles of combat coverage with the Pentagon following the 1991 Iraq war. He is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and The Gridiron Club, an association of Washington journalists, and he served as a Pulitzer Prize juror, chairing the national reporting jury in 1999.
AP is the world's largest news service, based in New York City. As executive editor, Wolman was responsible for AP news coverage and editorial standards across the world and the United States.
Wolman joined AP in 1973 and reported from Detroit until 1975. He became news editor for Michigan in 1975 and directed coverage of the Jimmy Hoffa disappearance and the beginning of the decline of the domestic car industry. He was named AP's national urban writer in 1976, based in Washington. Subsequently, Wolman was a national correspondent for the news service.
Wolman spent 20 years supervising AP's Washington news report, as news editor, assistant bureau chief and then bureau chief from 1989 to 1998. His tenure as bureau chief encompassed the first Bush administration and six years of the Clinton administration.
Wolman was appointed AP Managing Editor in November 1998 and Executive Editor in May 2000 and senior vice president in February 2002.
He is married to Deborah Lamm. One of their three children, Emma, is in the graduate school of information at the University of Michigan.