An update from Gannett blog:

In an e-mail, a reader tells me that the Gannett-controlled Detroit Media Partnership and Gannett-owned Detroit Free Press yesterday announced “sudden” first-quarter furloughs that are to be taken in the next 10 weeks.
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http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/detroit-abrupt-furloughs-and-other-cuts.html