Archive for the ‘Baltimore Sun’ Category
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Afternoon Journalism Depression
This month, two former Baltimore Sun staffers posted blog summaries of their experiences at the struggling Tribune-owned newspaper, both of which are either (a) meant to make me hate my life and despair for my future in journalism, or (b) make the management at the Sun feel bad about themselves, which, if half of what’s [...]
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Heartwarming print journalism quote of the day
For my article in today’s paper about the renovation and re-opening of the Polish Home Hall in Curtis Bay, I interviewed Catherine Benicewicz, a 90-year South Baltimorean and a child of Polish immigrants.
Mrs. Benicewicz is, for starters, adorable (when I asked how to spell her name, she said, “Be Nice W-I-C-Z”), but she also had [...] -
Simon says: A good day to be corrupt
This morning on the radio, I heard the voice of The Wire’s creator/producer and former Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon, testifying before a Senate committee called together by Massachussetts Sen. John Kerry to discuss the future of the newspaper industry. Many of our elected leaders, including Maryland Sen. Benjamin Cardin, found themselves in the odd [...]
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A tough day
Wednesday was a challenge for me.
Editing The Daily Record’s story about the layoffs at The Sun was difficult because the journalists let go were “my people” — men and women who are about my age, many of whom I worked with for many years. One of the editors let go Tuesday, Ray Frager, is one [...] -
Eminent Domain in China
This week’s Forbes magazine has a great article by former Baltimore Sun reporter Gady Epstein about a developer in Chungqing, China, who thought he was going to benefit from the government’s seizure of prime land near a highway and commerce center. He ended up losing out, as a government official showed favoritism to another developer, [...]
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What will this mean for The Sun?
After Monday’s news that the Tribune Co. filed for bankruptcy, what will happen to The Baltimore Sun? It seems the two have not had the best of relationships.
Since Tribune bought The Sun in 2000, the newspaper’s union-represented work force has decreased by 50 percent, according to the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. That includes more than 100 [...] -
On the media’s “liberal bias”
When I wrote a series of articles covering the Baltimore Sun’s staff and budget cuts this summer, I received a handful of e-mails from readers who said they thought the “Sunpaper” had already gone downhill because it had a liberal bias and wasn’t fully reporting both sides of the story anyway.
But an article on the [...] -
The Sun, WJZ buddy up
The Baltimore Sun certainly does get around. In the last six years it’s made three content- or staff-sharing deals with two local stations (twice with ABC affiliate WMAR-TV and once with NBC affiliate WBAL-TV and radio) and Tuesday announced yet another deal — this time with CBS affiliate WJZ –TV.
(The Sun is just one local [...]
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The difficult marriage of newspapers and online ads
A news release this week from the Baltimore Sun Media Group announced a record number of page views last month on both its baltimoresun.com and baltimore.metromix.com Web sites compared to a year earlier.
The number of page views on baltimoresun.com increased by 27 percent to 35.2 million in August, and the number of unique visitors increased [...] -
New look for The Baltimore Sun
Seeing as I’ve written about The Sun’s buyouts, layoffs, redesign and general overhaul of the newspaper as we knew it, I’ve nominated myself to give the official low down of the redesigned paper, which debuted Sunday. (In case you haven’t heard by now, the paper has consolidated its business, local, national and international news into [...]