The Baltimore Sun Explained

The Baltimore Sun
Type:	Daily newspaper
Format:	Broadsheet
Owner:	JTF Publications LLC (David D. Smith and Armstrong Williams)
Headquarters:	200 St. Paul Place, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Publishing City:	Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Publishing Country:	United States
Publisher:	Trif Alatzas^[1]
Editor:	Trif Alatzas
Circulation:	43,000 daily 125,000 Sunday ^[2]
Issn:	1930-8965
Oclc:	244481759
Motto:	Light for All

The Baltimore Sun is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the U.S. state of Maryland and provides coverage of local, regional, national, and international news.^[3]

Founded in 1837, the newspaper was owned by Tribune Publishing until May 2021, when it was acquired by Alden Global Capital, which operates its media properties through Digital First Media.^{[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]} David D. Smith, the executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, closed a deal to buy the paper on January 15, 2024.^[9]

History

19th century

The Sun was founded on May 17, 1837, by Arunah Shepherdson Abell and two associates, William Moseley Swain from Rhode Island, and Azariah H. Simmons from Philadelphia, where they had started and published the Public Ledger the year before.

Abell became a journalist with the Providence Patriot and later worked with newspapers in New York City and Boston.^[10]

20th century

The Abell family and descendants owned The Sun until 1910, when the local Black and Garrett families invested in the paper at the suggestion of former rival owner/publisher of The News, Charles H. Grasty, and they, along with Grasty gained a controlling interest; they retained the name A. S. Abell Company for the parent publishing company. That same year The Evening Sun was established under reporter, editor and columnist H.L. Mencken (1880–1956).

From 1947 to 1986, The Sun was the owner and founder of Maryland's first television station, WMAR-TV (channel 2), which was a longtime affiliate of CBS until 1981, when it switched to NBC. The station was sold off in 1986, and is now owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, and has been an ABC affiliate since 1995. A. S. Abell also owned several radio stations, but not in Baltimore itself (holding construction permits for WMAR sister AM/FM stations, but never bringing them to air).

The newspaper opened its first foreign bureau in London in 1924. Between 1955 and 1961, it added four new foreign offices.

As Cold War tensions grew, it set up shop in Bonn, West Germany, in February 1955; the bureau was later moved to Berlin. Eleven months later, The Sun was one of the first U.S. newspapers to open a bureau in Moscow. A Rome office followed in July 1957, and a New Delhi bureau was opened four years later, in 1961 .^[11] At its height, The Sun ran eight foreign bureaus, giving rise to its boast in a 1983 advertisement that "The Sun never sets on the world."^[12]

The paper was sold by Reg Murphy in 1986 to the Times-Mirror Company of the Los Angeles Times.^[13]

The same week, a 115-year-old rivalry ended when the oldest newspaper in the city, the News American, a Hearst paper since the 1920s with roots dating back to 1773, folded.^[14] A decade later in 1997, The Sun acquired the Patuxent Publishing Company, a local suburban newspaper publisher that had a stable of 15 weekly papers and a few magazines in several communities and counties.^[15]

In the 1990s and 2000s, The Sun began cutting back its foreign coverage. In 1995 and 1996, the paper closed its Tokyo, Mexico City and Berlin bureaus. Two more—Beijing and London—fell victim to cost-cutting in 2005.^[12] The final three foreign bureaus—Moscow, Jerusalem, and Johannesburg, South Africa—fell a couple of years later.^[16] All were closed by 2008, as the Tribune Co. streamlined and downsized the newspaper chain's foreign reporting. Some material from The Suns foreign correspondents is archived at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.^[17]

21st century

In the 21st century, The Sun, like most legacy newspapers in the United States, has suffered a number of setbacks in the competition with Internet and other sources, including a decline in readership and ads, a shrinking newsroom staff,^[18] and competition from 2005-2007 with the free daily The Baltimore Examiner, along with a similar Washington, D.C.-based publication of a small chain recently started by new owners that took over the San Francisco Examiner.^[19] In 2000, the Times-Mirror company was purchased by the Tribune Company of Chicago. In 2014, it transferred its newspapers, including The Sun, to Tribune Publishing.

The Sun introduced a new layout design in September 2005, and again in August 2008.^[20] By 2010 daily circulation had fallen to 195,561 and 343,552 for the Sunday edition. On April 29, 2009, the Tribune Company announced the lay off of 61 of the 205 staff members in the Sun newsroom.^[21] On September 23, 2011, it was reported^[22] that the Baltimore Sun would be moving its web edition behind a paywall starting October 10, 2011.

The Baltimore Sun is the flagship of the Baltimore Sun Media Group, which also produces the b free daily newspaper and more than 30 other Baltimore metropolitan-area community newspapers, magazines and Web sites. BSMG content reaches more than one million Baltimore-area readers each week and is the region's most widely read source of news.^[23]

On February 20, 2014, The Baltimore Sun Media Group announced that they would buy the alternative weekly City Paper.^[24] In April, the Sun acquired the Maryland publications of Landmark Media Enterprises.^[25]

In February 2021, as part of the planned merger between Tribune Publishing and Alden Global Capital, Tribune announced that Alden had reached a non-binding agreement to sell The Sun to the Sunlight For All Institute, a nonprofit backed by businessman and philanthropist Stewart W. Bainum Jr. The deal was contingent on approval by Tribune shareholders of the merger deal.^[26] It fell apart in talks over operating agreements with Tribune for functions including human resources and customer service.^[27] Bainum then led a failed bid to acquire all of Tribune Publishing.^[28] Bainum subsequently founded The Baltimore Banner, pledging $50 million to the nonprofit outlet.

In February 2022, the editorial board of The Sun published a lengthy apology for its racism over its 185–year history, including specific offenses such as accepting classified ads for selling enslaved people and publishing editorials that promoted racial segregation and disenfranchisement of Black voters.^{[29] [30] [31]}

In January 2024, David D. Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, reached an agreement to acquire the paper, with conservative commentator Armstrong Williams holding an undisclosed stake. Though the transaction is independent of Sinclair, Smith said he foresees partnerships between the paper and Sinclair properties like its flagship station, Fox affiliate WBFF-TV (channel 45). Smith said he believed he could grow subscriptions and advertising through a greater focus on community news and integrating technology in ways other print media publishers are not going. In his first visit to the newsroom, he sparred with reporters and said the paper should emulate WBFF's news philosophy, including through non-scientific reader polls and aggressive coverage of Baltimore City Public Schools. He dismissed newsroom concerns about the future of public service journalism.^{[32] [33]}

Since Smith's acquisition of The Sun, the paper has become more conservative, and has published more stories on Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott and his administration, as well as crime in Baltimore.^[34] Williams said the paper's editorial page would cease endorsing political candidates and start including more conservative viewpoints, but not at the expense of liberal ones. He said at the time that the newspaper may run his syndicated column "on its merits."^[35] The paper's opinion page now regularly publishes Wiliiams' columns and video commentaries.^[36] In June 2024, The Sun began republishing content from channel 45's website, provoking protests from staffers and the Baltimore Sun Guild, which released a statement expressing concern with the lack at the paper and criticizing language used in the station's articles and Williams' editorial articles, particularly toward immigrants and transgender people.^{[37] [38]}

In June 2024, longtime managing editor Sam Davis announced he would retire at the end of the month. Opinion editor Tricia Bishop, who has worked for the newspaper since 1999, will succeed him. Smith will stay on for a few months as a consultant for The Sun's owners.^[39]

On June 10, 2024, the Baltimore Sun Guild raised concern with what it said were ethical breaches committed by management since the takeover, including the use of channel 45's content and Williams columns that did not meet Sun editorial standards. This included language used to describe immigrants and transgender people. The guild demanded the Sun stop republishing WBFF-TV content and asked management to meet with staff to discuss their concerns. Williams said in a statement he respected the guild's opinion but hoped the union "reciprocally appreciates legitimate managerial prerogatives in the journalistic enterprise."^[40] In a subsequent Sun column, Williams wrote the guild and the Associated Press had no inherent authority to prescribe the way in which language is used.^[41]

Editions

From 1910 to 1995 there were two distinct newspapers, The Sun, which was published in the morning, and The Evening Sun, which was published in the afternoon. Each newspaper maintained separate reporting and editorial staff.

The Evening Sun was first published in 1910 under the leadership of Charles H. Grasty, former owner of the Evening News, and a firm believer in the evening circulation. For most of its existence, The Evening Sun led its morning sibling in circulation. In 1959, the afternoon edition's circulation was 220,174, compared to 196,675 for the morning edition.^[42] However, by the 1980s, cultural, technological and economic shifts in America were eating away at afternoon newspapers' market share, with readers flocking to either morning papers or switching to nightly television news broadcasts.^[43] In 1992, the afternoon paper's circulation was 133,800.^[44] By mid-1995, The Evening Suns readership—86,360—had been eclipsed by The Sun—264,583.^[42] The Evening Sun ceased publication on September 15, 1995.

Daily

After a period of roughly a year during which the paper's owners sometimes printed a two-section product, The Baltimore Sun now has three sections every weekday: News, Sports and alternating various business and features sections. On some days, comics and such features as the horoscope and TV listings are printed in the back of the Sports section.

After dropping the standalone business section in 2009, The Sun brought back a business section on Tuesdays and Sundays in 2010, with business pages occupying part of the news section on other days.^[45] Features sections debuting in 2010 included a Saturday "Home" section, a Thursday "Style" section and a Monday section called "Sunrise." The sports article written by Peter Schmuck is published only on weekdays.

Sunday

The Sunday Sun for many years was noted for a locally produced rotogravure Maryland pictorial magazine section, featuring works by such acclaimed photographers as A. Aubrey Bodine. The Sunday Sun dropped the Sunday Sun Magazine in 1996 and now only carries Parade magazine weekly. A quarterly version of the Sun Magazine^[46] was resurrected in September 2010, with stories that included a comparison of young local doctors, an interview with actress Julie Bowen and a feature on the homes of a former Baltimore anchorwoman. Newsroom managers plan to add online content on a more frequent basis.

baltimoresun.com

The company introduced its website in September 1996. A redesign of the site was unveiled in June 2009, capping a six-month period of record online traffic. Each month from January through June, an average of 3.5 million unique visitors combined to view 36.6 million Web pages. Sun reporters and editors produce more than three dozen blogs on such subjects as technology, weather, education, politics, Baltimore crime, real estate, gardening, pets and parenting. Among the most popular are Dining@Large, which covers local restaurants; The Schmuck Stops Here, a Baltimore-centric sports blog written by Peter Schmuck; Z on TV, by media critic David Zurawik; and Midnight Sun, a nightlife blog. A Baltimore Sun iPhone app was released September 14, 2010.

b

In 2008, the Baltimore Sun Media Group launched the daily paper b to target younger and more casual readers, ages 18 to 35. It was in tabloid format, with large graphics, creative design, and humor in focusing on entertainment, news, and sports. Its companion website was bthesite.com.^[47] The paper transitioned from daily to weekly publication in 2011.

b ceased publication entirely in August 2015, more than a year after the Baltimore Sun Media Group acquired City Paper.^[48]

Contributors

The Baltimore Sun has won 16 Pulitzer Prizes. It also has been home to many notable journalists, reporters and essayists, including H.L. Mencken, who had a forty-plus-year association with the paper.

Other notable journalists, editors, photographers and cartoonists on the staff of The Baltimore Sun include:^[49]

• Rafael Alvarez
  • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Linda Carter Brinson Richard Ben Cramer Russell Baker A. Aubrey Bodine John Carroll Turner Catledge Edmund Duffy Thomas Edsall John Filo Jon Franklin Jack Germond James Grant Mauritz A. Hallgren David Hobby Brit Hume Gwen Ifill Gerald W. Johnson Kevin P. Kallaugher Murray Kempton Frank Kent Tim Kurkjian Laura Lippman William Manchester Jim McKay Kay Mills Robert Mottar J. Reginald Murphy Thomas O'Neill Drew Pearson Ken Rosenthal Louis Rukeyser Dan Shaughnessy David Simon Michael Sragow John Steadman Jules Witcover William F. Zorzi

Facilities

The first issue of The Sun, a four-page tabloid, was printed at 21 Light Street in downtown Baltimore in the mid-1830s.

In 1851, the newspaper moved to a five-story structure at the corner of Baltimore and South streets. In 1904, in the Great Baltimore Fire, the structure, known as the "Iron Building", was destroyed.

In 1885, The Sun constructed a building for its Washington, D.C. bureau at 1317 F Street, NW, in Washington, D.C.^[50] The building is on the National Register.

In 1906, operations were moved to Charles and Baltimore streets, where The Sun was written, published, and distributed for nearly 50 years. In 1950, operations were moved to a larger, modern plant at Calvert and Centre streets. In 1979, ground was broken for a new addition to the Calvert Street plant to house modern pressroom facilities. This facility commenced operations in 1981.

In April 1988, at a cost of $180 million, the company purchased of land at Port Covington and built "Sun Park". The new building houses a satellite printing and packaging facility, and also is the newspaper's headquarters for its distribution operations.^[51] The Suns printing facility at Sun Park has highly sophisticated computerized presses and automated insertion equipment in the packaging area. To keep pace with the speed of the presses and automated guided vehicles, intelligent electronic forklifts deliver the newsprint to the presses.

On January 30, 2022, The Baltimore Sun newspaper was printed for the last time at its Sun Park facility.^[52] It was reported that The Sun's printing operations would be moved to a printing facility in Wilmington, Delaware.^[53]

In December 2022, the Sun announced an agreement to move its offices to 200 St. Paul Place in downtown Baltimore, abandoning Sun Park altogether. ^[54]

Controversies

• The paper became embroiled in a controversy involving the former governor of Maryland, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R). Ehrlich had issued an executive order on November 18, 2004, banning state executive branch employees from talking to Sun columnist Michael Olesker and reporter David Nitkin, claiming that their coverage had been unfair to the administration. This led The Sun to file a First Amendment lawsuit against the Ehrlich administration. The case was dismissed by a U.S. District Court judge, and The Sun appealed to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the dismissal.^[55]
• Olesker was later forced to resign on January 4, 2006, in a separate incident in which he was accused of plagiarism. The Baltimore City Paper reported that several of his columns contained sentences or paragraphs that were extremely similar (although not identical) to material previously published in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Sun.^[56] Several of his colleagues were highly critical of the forced resignation, taking the view that the use of previously published boilerplate material was common newsroom practice, and that Olesker's alleged plagiarism was in line with that practice.^[57]
• Between 2006 and 2007, Thomas Andrews Drake, a former National Security Agency executive, allegedly leaked classified information to Siobhan Gorman, then a national security reporter for The Sun. Drake was charged in April 2010 with 10 felony counts in relation to the leaks.^[58] In June 2011, all 10 original charges were dropped, in what was widely viewed as an acknowledgement that the government had no valid case against the whistleblower, who eventually pleaded to one misdemeanor count for exceeding authorized use of a computer. Drake was the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling.^[59]
• In 2018, in response to the European cookie law, the parent company of The Sun did not enable permission-requesting software, and many European visitors (and those from some non-European countries) were forced to visit the site via proxies, potentially muddling the website's analytics.^{[60] [61] [62]}

Portrayal in The Wire

The Baltimore Sun was featured in the American crime drama television series The Wire in 2008 (season 5), which was created by former Sun reporter David Simon.^[63]

Like all of the institutions featured in The Wire, the Sun is portrayed as having many deeply dysfunctional qualities while also having very dedicated people on its staff. The season focuses on the role of the media in affecting political decisions in City Hall and the priorities of the Baltimore Police Department. Additionally, the show explores the business pressures of modern media through layoffs and buyouts occurring at the Sun, on the orders of the Tribune Company, the Suns corporate owner.

One storyline involves a troubled Sun reporter named Scott Templeton, and his escalating tendency to sensationalize and falsify stories. The Wire portrays the managing editors of the Sun as turning a blind eye to the protests of a concerned line editor, in the managing editors' zeal to win a Pulitzer Prize. The show insinuates that the motivation for this institutional dysfunction is the business pressures of modern media, and working for a flagship newspaper in a major media market like The New York Times or The Washington Post is seen as the only way to avoid the cutbacks occurring at the Sun.

Season 5 was The Wires last. The finale episode, "-30-", features a montage at the end portraying the ultimate fate of the major characters. It shows Templeton at Columbia University with the senior editors of the fictional Sun, accepting the Pulitzer Prize, with no mention being made as to the aftermath of Templeton's career. Alma Gutierrez is shown being exiled to the Carroll County bureau past the suburbs.

News partnership

In September 2008, The Baltimore Sun became the newspaper partner of station WJZ-TV, owned and operated by CBS; the partnership involves sharing content and story leads, and teaming up on stories. WJZ promotes Baltimore Sun stories in its news broadcasts. The Sun promotes WJZ's stories and weather team on its pages.

See also

• • List of newspapers in Maryland
• List of newspapers in the United States by circulation
• Media in Baltimore

Further reading

• Book: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 978-1-4422-6256-0. Frederic B. . Hill . Stephens . Broening . The Life of Kings: The Baltimore Sun and the Golden Age of the American Newspaper. Lanham. 2016-07-25.
• Book: 1st. Knopf. Gerald W. Johnson . H. L. Mencken . The Sunpapers of Baltimore. New York. 1937. 37009111.
• Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980) pp 73–80

External links

• • • Baltimore Sun Archives at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Baltimore Sun online archives (1837 to present)
• Rasmussen, Frederick N. "Sun vignette has been greeting readers since 1837," The Baltimore Sun, Monday, May 17, 2010.
• Telling Our Stories (memories of former employees)
• Web site: Control of Baltimore Sun. Charles H. Grasty Becomes Executive Head of the Paper. The New York Times. January 27, 1910.
• Web site: Sun circulation on Sunday reaches over 340,000. May 8, 2011. May 8, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110508010343/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-05-03/business/bs-bz-newspaper-circulation-20110503_1_sun-circulation-circulations-report-circulation-numbers. dead. *
• Web site: The Baltimore Sun . 2015-08-27 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20020828081552/http://www.sunspot.net/ . August 28, 2002 . mdy .
• "Baltimore Sun, 150 Years Of," 1987-05-17, Maryland Public Television, The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting
• Final Sun Park press run on January 30, 2022 | PHOTOS
• Baltimore Sun Media prints in Sun Park for last time on January 30, 2022 | VIDEO

Notes and References

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3. Web site: Bluesheets: (Baltimore) The Sun. Thomson Reuters. May 28, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20110710122729/http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0714.html. July 10, 2011. September 1, 2005. dead. mdy-all.
4. News: Roeder . David . Chicago Tribune staff gets buyout offers as Alden takes over . June 2, 2021 . Chicago Sun Times . May 26, 2021 . June 2, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214420/https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/2021/5/26/22455776/chicago-tribune-staff-gets-buyout-offers-as-alden-takes-over . live .
5. News: Folkenflik . David . 'Vulture' Fund Alden Global, Known For Slashing Newsrooms, Buys Tribune Papers . May 21, 2021 . NPR . May 21, 2021 . May 21, 2021 . https://archive.today/20210521172142/https://www.npr.org/2021/05/21/998730863/vulture-fund-alden-global-known-for-slashing-newsrooms-buys-tribune-papers . live .
6. News: Chicago Tribune Staff . Tribune Publishing ends discussions with Maryland hotel executive, moving forward with hedge fund Alden's bid for newspaper chain . April 20, 2021 . Chicago Tribune . April 19, 2021 . April 19, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210419234148/https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-tribune-publishing-alden-sale-20210419-uqlp6yjxvbdhlkd2yjanh6thre-story.html . live .
7. News: Tracy . Marc . Hedge Fund Reaches a Deal to Buy Tribune Publishing . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/business/media/alden-tribune-newspaper-sale.html . 2021-12-28 . limited . February 17, 2021 . . February 16, 2021.
8. News: Feder . Robert . 'Sad, sobering day' for Chicago Tribune as Alden wins takeover bid . May 23, 2021 . May 21, 2021 . May 22, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210522122523/https://www.robertfeder.com/2021/05/21/sad-sobering-day-chicago-tribune-alden-wins-takeover-bid/ . live .
9. News: Mirabella . Lorraine . The Baltimore Sun purchased by Sinclair's David D. Smith . 15 January 2024 . Baltimore Sun . 15 January 2024.
10. Van Doren, Charles and Robert McKendry, ed., Webster's American Biographies. (Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 1984) p. 5.
11. News: The Baltimore Sun opens bureau in India. 1961-01-17. The Baltimore Sun. 2017-03-31. April 1, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170401060500/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/218883492/. live.
12. News: Sun cuts foreign bureaus from 5 to 3. Madigan. Nick. 2005-10-07. The Baltimore Sun. 2017-03-31. April 1, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170401060007/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2005-10-07/business/0510070289_1_bureaus-chicago-tribune-sun. live.
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15. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-06-11/news/1997162002_1_patuxent-publishing-baltimore-sun-john-sturm "Baltimore Sun to buy Patuxent Publishing Columbia company has 15 newspapers, magazines in region"
16. News: Tribune Co. is closing Sun's foreign bureaus. Madigan. Nick. 2006-07-06. The Baltimore Sun. 2017-03-31. April 1, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170401060548/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2006-07-07/business/0607070011_1_bureaus-chicago-tribune-sun. live.
17. http://library.umbc.edu/speccoll/findingaids/coll024.php "Baltimore Sun Foreign Bureaus records"
18. Web site: Tribune Co. announces plans to layoff [sic] 27 percent of The Baltimore Sun's newsroom staff, including four columnists . Poynter . May 30, 2009 . May 30, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090514010338/http://www.poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13920 . May 14, 2009 .
19. News: Examiner Plans Baltimore Edition . The Washington Post . June 25, 2007 . October 18, 2007 . Annys . Shin . November 2, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121102173925/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/17/AR2005101701561.html . live .
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21. Mirabella, Lorraine; http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-04-26/business/bs-bz-sun-circulation-20100426_1_average-daily-circulation-baltimore-sun-media-group-previous-six-month-period" The Baltimore Sun, April 28, 2009
22. Web site: Romenesko . Jim . Updated: Baltimore Sun to put up paywall next month | Poynter . Poynter. . 2014-02-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111112164415/http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/romenesko/147138/baltimore-sun-to-put-up-paywall-next-month/ . November 12, 2011 . dead . mdy-all .
23. News: (Baltimore) The Sun . . August 11, 2009.
24. News: Baltimore Sun Media Group to buy City Paper . . February 20, 2014 . February 20, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140220214716/http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-baltimore-sun-media-group-to-buy-city-paper-20140220,0,2746564.story . live .
25. Web site: Baltimore Sun Media Group buys The Capital in Annapolis and the Carroll County Times. Jean. Marbella. May 2014. May 2, 2014. August 12, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140812142038/http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-baltimore-sun-media-group-buys-the-capital-in-annapolis-and-the-carroll-county-times,0,1541424.story. dead.
26. News: Dinsmore . Christopher . Baltimore Sun Media poised to be acquired by nonprofit from Tribune Publishing . 17 February 2021 . . February 17, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210217032257/https://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-sun-tribune-nonprofit-20210216-kd2vb25tc5a5hjsfbskhwebvqm-story.html . live .
27. News: Dinsmore . Christopher . Mirabella . Lorraine . Deal for Baltimore Sun may be off as Maryland businessman looks to buy all of Tribune Publishing . 17 January 2024 . Baltimore Sun . 15 March 2021.
28. News: Channick . Robert . Dinsmore . Christopher . Maryland businessman bids $650 million for all of Tribune, including The Baltimore Sun . 17 January 2024 . Baltimore Sun . 24 March 2021.
29. Web site: Fox News . Wulfsohn . Joseph A. . February 18, 2022 . Baltimore Sun editorial board apologizes for paper's past racism in its 185-year history . February 19, 2022 . February 19, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220219013719/https://www.foxnews.com/media/baltimore-sun-apologizes-racism . live .
30. Web site: The Wrap . Lambert . Harper . February 18, 2022 . Baltimore Sun Apologizes for Decades of 'Systemic Racism' in Coverage and Editorials . February 19, 2022 . February 18, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220218225123/https://www.thewrap.com/baltimore-sun-apologizes-for-decades-of-systemic-racism-in-coverage-and-editorials/ . live .
31. News: . February 18, 2022 . We are deeply and profoundly sorry: For decades, The Baltimore Sun promoted policies that oppressed Black Marylanders; we are working to make amends . February 19, 2022 . February 19, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220219005840/https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-0220-sun-racial-reckoning-apology-online-20220218-qp32uybk5bgqrcnd732aicrouu-story.html . live .
32. News: Boteler . Cody . Sanderlin . Lee O. . Bologna . Giacomo . New Baltimore Sun owner insults staff, says paper should mimic Fox45 . 17 January 2024 . The Baltimore Banner . 17 January 2024 . en.
33. News: Shen . Fern . Staffers react to their first meeting with Baltimore Sun's new owner . 17 January 2024 . Baltimore Brew . 16 January 2024.
34. News: Folkenflik . David . More crime and conservatism: How new owners are changing 'The Baltimore Sun' . March 4, 2024 . . February 26, 2024.
35. News: Mirabella . Lorraine . After Baltimore Sun sale to David Smith, part-owner Armstrong Williams offers vision . 20 January 2024 . Baltimore Sun . 20 January 2024.
36. Web site: Armstrong Williams . Baltimore Sun . 4 June 2024 . 31 May 2024.
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