3 suburban Detroit newspapers to stop publishing at the end of October

Three metro Detroit newspapers are expected to cease publishing by the end of the month.

The shutdowns are part of a larger pattern of vanishing newspapers nationwide.

The perception of the dying newspaper is so prevalent it’s the premise of a TV show, "The Paper."

Three suburban Detroit newspapers — The Press & Guide of Dearborn, the Tribune of Royal Oak and The Voice of New Baltimore — are expected to cease publishing by the end of the month, a decision that readers said they lament.

The shutdowns are part of a larger pattern of vanishing newspapers nationwide.

They also are a sign of a dynamic media landscape that is expected to change even more in a few months when the Free Press and The Detroit News end their joint operating agreement and start competing much more aggressiv