Baltimore Sun

Baltimore Sun Adds Metered Paywall

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:39:19 -0400

Full article: paidContent
Laura Hazard Owen
The Baltimore Sun is the latest newspaper to add a metered paywall, for both print and non-print subscribers. A digital subscription will cost $2.49 per week or $49.99 for 26 weeks for non-print subscribers, and $0.75 per week or $29.99 per year for print subscribers.

'Baltimore Sun' Plans Pay Wall

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:45:33 -0400

Full article: MediaPost
Erik Sass
The list of newspapers charging readers for access to online content is growing longer. The Baltimore Sun will begin selling digital subscriptions to its website on Oct. 10. This will make the Sun the first newspaper owned by Tribune Co. to erect an online pay wall -- possibly foreshadowing similar moves at other big Tribune papers, including the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times.

Stop the Presses

Stevie Converse — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:32:17 -0400

Full article: Baltimore Magazine
Evan Serpick
Given the mighty woes of newspapers nationally and the turmoil at the Baltimore Sun and its parent Tribune Co. in particular, the question has increasingly been asked, What can be done to save the Sun? There are also the question's more ominous corollaries: Can the Sun be saved? Should it?

Baltimore Sun Staffers to Withhold Bylines to Protest Job Cuts, Heavy-Handed Tactics

Stevie Converse — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:27:11 -0400

Full article: Poynter Institute
More than 50 Baltimore Sun newsroom staff members, including reporters, photographers and other bylined content producers, launched a byline strike today protesting layoffs and heavy handed tactics by owner Tribune Company.

Baltimore Sun Cuts Third of Newsroom

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:24:21 -0400

Full article: Baltimore Sun
Lorraine Mirabella
The Baltimore Sun has cut its newsroom staff by nearly a third in a reorganization the company said would help it not just survive but succeed in one of the worst economic downturns in decades. The moves were made as the parent company, Tribune Co., is restructuring the Sun's newsroom.

Washington Post and Baltimore Sun Will Share News Content

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:44:58 -0500

Full article: New York Times
Richard Perez-Pena
The Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun announced that they would share some of their articles and pictures. The move adds two major players to the fast-growing roster of newspapers that are cooperating with their regional competitors to get more coverage out of their diminished news staffs.

Tribune Co. Plans New Round of Job Cuts at the Baltimore Sun

Stevie Converse — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:33:38 -0500

Full article: Newspaper Guild
Just four months after Tribune Co. slashed 100 jobs from the Baltimore Sun's payroll, including 60 from the newsroom, the company is planning a new round of cuts.

Baltimore Sun Employees Protest Cuts

Stevie Converse — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:26:53 -0400

Full article: Daily Record
Outside the Baltimore Sun building, about 150 employees attempted to raise awareness about how impending buyouts and layoffs would adversely affect the newspaper and the public.

Investor Group Still Wants to Buy Baltimore 'Sun'

Holiday Shapiro — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:40:23 -0400

Full article: Associated Press
A group of local investors remains interested in buying The Sun in Baltimore from Chicago-based Tribune Company.