The 174-year-old Ann Arbor News has printed its last edition.
Hit hard by the recession, declining circulation and ad revenue and the migration of readers to the web, the paper printed its last edition Thursday.
It is being replaced by AnnArbor.com, a free website that will also publish a print edition on Thursdays and Sundays.
Some of the paper's newsroom staffers have been hired at the website, taking a pay cut in the process.
The closing leaves Ann Arbor, a town of more than 100,000 and the home of the University of Michigan, without a daily paper.
The News' owner, Advance Publications, announced in March that the paper would close.
The News is just the latest in a string of newspapers that have closed, including two large metro dailies - Denver's Rocky Mountain News and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer - which shut down earlier this year.
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