The U.S. granted a Detroit Free Press request.

The Justice Department agreed to keep secret about 1,500 sensitive internal documents involved in the government’s review of the proposed joint operating agreement between the Free Press and the Detroit News. Assistant Atty. Gen. William Bradford Reynolds signed two orders to block public disclosure of the material, which is being examined by the Justice Department’s antitrust division. In each order, Reynolds said that releasing the documents “would cause substantial harm” to the newspaper.