(Updated.) As Gannett axes 2,000 jobs at its other newspapers, Detroit employees hunger for details about what’s going down in oddly quiet Motown. “We all feel something is brewing,” one employee told me. “Maybe that’s just paranoia, but I don’t think so.”

Indeed, Michigan in general — and Detroit in particular — zoomed to No. 1 on my list (left) of states sending traffic to Gannett Blog, according to a new Google Analytics report. I can’t recall the last time Michigan ranked that high; New York, Virginia and New Jersey are usually in the pole position.