by mitchalbom_webmaster | Feb 26, 2019 | News
Finalists in the Michigan Associated Press Media Editors 2018 newspaper contest were announced today. The top three places — the awards in order of finish — will be announced at the annual awards banquet in Lansing on April 28. Mitch Albom’s column in the...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 9, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Not many people know this story. Before working at the Detroit Free Press, I was a sports feature writer at a newspaper in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. I was desperate to be a columnist. I had come from the music world, I thrived on creativity, and it felt natural to me to...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Aug 4, 2015 | News
Thirty years ago today, Mitch’s first column for the Detroit Free Press was published. Enjoy this flashback.
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Oct 23, 2014 | News
What’s better than breakfast with the Detroit Lions? Watching their London showdown with a virtual Mitch Albom next to you.Albom will do another “Watch With Mitch” live game blog Sunday morning.All you need to do is go...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Jun 13, 2013 | News
Monday night, Mitch Albom was inducted into Sportswriters Hall of Fame in Salisbury, N.C. He joins the likes of Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Damon Runyon, Jimmy Cannon, Dave Anderson and more. His co-inductee was Dick Vitale of ESPN on the broadcast side. Each spoke and...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 4, 2011 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Wait long enough, and a study will be published confirming you were right.So it was this past week when a Pew Research Center project revealed that on any given day, more than half of Americans ages 18-29 go on the Internet for “no particular reason.”Aha!I...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 13, 2010 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
CHICAGO – That was a touchdown. You can show me the rule book. You can cite the referees. You can stand me in front of Jim Schwartz even as he defends the call that killed his team. I don’t care. By any definition that makes sense, by any memory of any...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Jun 28, 2010 | News
Mitch Receives Red Smith Award at Annual APSE Convention in Salt Lake City On Friday, June 25th at the Marriott City Center in Salt Lake City, Mitch accepted the Associate Press Sports Editors highest honor–and the biggest prize of his journalism...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Mar 15, 2010 | News
From the Associated Press Sports Editors March Newsletter:Mitch Albom named Red Smith Award winnerBy Michael Anastasi APSE Second Vice President Managing Editor, Salt Lake Tribune Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press, the most-decorated columnist in APSE contest...