The Detroit Media Partnership, which heads up business operations for the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press, is looking to make changes to secure both newspapers' future in tough economic times, the group's CEO David Hunke announced to employees Thursday. Changes will be announced early next week, the Free Press reported.

The adjustments will aim "to ensure two strong newspaper voices in the (Detroit) community," said Hunke, also publisher of the Free Press.

"Clearly, over the past months we have been exploring various scenarios to reposition the companies for growth and to ensure two strong newspaper voices in the community," Hunke wrote in an e-mail, the Free Press reported.

The Free Press is owned by Gannett Co., Inc., and the Detroit News is owned by MediaNews. Although editorial departments are separate, the papers work together on the business side under a joint-operating agreement.

Leland Bassett, a spokesman for Hunke, told the Associated Press that the partnership has made no decisions on redundancies, or whether to end home delivery or any print editions.