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55-798: The syndicate was founded in c. 1949 by the Times Mirror Company as the Mirror Enterprises Syndicate . In the early 1960s the name was changed to the Los Angeles Times Syndicate , and was operated as a department of the Los Angeles Times newspaper. Rex Barley was manager of the syndicate from 1950 until at least 1968. The syndicate acquired the New York City-based independent syndicate General Features Corp. in 1967 for approximately $ 1 million, retaining it as

110-442: A breakout comic strip; the most successful strips — Luther , Napoleon and Uncle Elby , Mr. Tweedy — tended to be inherited from other syndicates. Most Mirror Enterprise strips didn't last more than two or three years, and the company appeared to give up on syndicating comic strips after c. 1961. After a five-year hiatus, the newly named Los Angeles Times Syndicate picked up the distribution of comic strips again in 1965. It had

165-550: A business section on Tuesdays and Sundays in 2010, with business pages occupying part of the news section on other days. 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. 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

220-664: A deal to buy the paper on January 15, 2024. 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 . The Abell family and descendants owned The Sun until 1910, when

275-407: A forty-plus-year association with the paper. Other notable journalists, editors, photographers and cartoonists on the staff of The Baltimore Sun include: 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

330-862: A group of stations owned by Newhouse Newspapers : WAPI-TV (now WVTM-TV ) in Birmingham, Alabama ; KTVI in St. Louis ; WSYR-TV (now WSTM-TV ) in Syracuse, New York and its satellite station WSYE-TV (now WETM-TV ) in Elmira, New York ; and WTPA-TV (now WHTM-TV ) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania . The company also entered the field of cable television, servicing the Phoenix and San Diego areas, amongst others. They were originally titled Times-Mirror Cable, and were later renamed to Dimension Cable Television. Similarly, they also attempted to enter

385-491: 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 60 acres (24 ha) of land at Port Covington and built "Sun Park". The new building houses a satellite printing and packaging facility, and also

440-570: 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. It fell apart in talks over operating agreements with Tribune for functions including human resources and customer service. Bainum then led a failed bid to acquire all of Tribune Publishing. Bainum subsequently founded The Baltimore Banner , pledging $ 50 million to

495-475: 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

550-566: A separate entity. In 1974, the L.A. Times Syndicate absorbed General Features into its own operations. In mid-1987, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate was the fifth-ranked syndication service, with 85 features. The Tribune Company acquired the Times Mirror Company in early 2000; upon completion of the merger, the L.A. Times Syndicate became a division of Tribune Media Services . The New York office closed June 1, 2000, while

605-502: A similar lack of long-term success, with most strips not lasting more than three of four year in syndication. The most popular strips that originated with the L.A. Times Syndicate were Ed Nofziger's Animalogic (11 years in syndication) and Lee Nordling's Sherman on the Mount (9 years). The syndicate also distributed Lou Grant 's editorial cartoons from the 1950s through the 1980s. Times Mirror Company The Times Mirror Company

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660-449: 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. 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 . David D. Smith , the executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group , closed

715-414: Is the newspaper's headquarters for its distribution operations. The Sun ' s 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

770-503: Is the region's most widely read source of news. On February 20, 2014, The Baltimore Sun Media Group announced that they would buy the alternative weekly City Paper . In April, the Sun acquired the Maryland publications of Landmark Media Enterprises . In February 2021, as part of the planned merger between Tribune Publishing and Alden Global Capital , Tribune announced that Alden had reached

825-556: The Dallas Times Herald and its radio and television stations, KRLD-AM - FM -TV in Dallas . The Federal Communications Commission granted an exemption of its cross-ownership policy and allowed Times-Mirror to retain the newspaper and the television outlet, which was renamed KDFW-TV . Times-Mirror Broadcasting later acquired KTBC-TV in Austin, Texas in 1973; and in 1980 purchased

880-527: The Hartford Courant . In 1986, Times Mirror bought A.S. Abell Company, owners of The Baltimore Sun , and as part of the sale, Gillett Communications bought out the broadcasting unit. That same year, Times Mirror acquired Broadcasting Publications Inc., parent company of broadcast trade magazine Broadcasting Magazine . Times Mirror acquired Richard D. Irwin Inc. from Dow Jones & Company in 1988 to enter

935-526: The Baltimore Sun , but had to sell off those stations to Gillett Communications to appease FCC's cross-ownership rules. The remaining four outlets were packaged to a new upstart holding company, Argyle Television, in 1993. These stations were acquired by New World Communications shortly thereafter and became key components in a sweeping shift of network-station affiliations which occurred between 1994–1995 . The Baltimore Sun The Baltimore Sun

990-614: 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. 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

1045-571: The New American Library (NAL) and later sold it in 1983 to Odyssey Partners, a private investing group, and Ira J. Hechler, a private investor. Times Mirror acquired the World Publishing Company in 1962. By this time, World Publishing was producing 12 million books a year, one of only three American publishers to produce that much volume. In 1974, Times Mirror sold World Publishing to the U.K.-based Collins Publishers . In 1967,

1100-576: 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

1155-465: 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". In a subsequent Sun column, Williams wrote the guild and the Associated Press had no inherent authority to prescribe

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1210-640: The Times-Mirror Company of the Los Angeles Times . 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. 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. In

1265-460: The Tribune Company , the Sun ' s 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

1320-461: 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. The final three foreign bureaus—Moscow, Jerusalem, and Johannesburg, South Africa—fell a couple of years later. All were closed by 2008, as the Tribune Co. streamlined and downsized

1375-488: The Baltimore Sun Guild, which released a statement expressing concern with the lack of transparency at the paper on the relationship between The Baltimore Sun, Fox45 and other Sinclair newsrooms, and criticizing language used in the station's articles and Williams' editorial articles, particularly toward immigrants and transgender people . In June 2024, longtime managing editor Sam Davis announced he would retire at

1430-575: The Salt Lake City office closed on August 31, 2000. International work continues to be done in Los Angeles through the Tribune Content Agency . Several of the employees were offered follow on jobs with Tribune Media Services after the closing. The only strip that appeared to survive the merger was Dave Blazek and John Gilpin's Loose Parts . Neither iteration of the syndicate ever produced

1485-633: The Sunday Sun Magazine in 1996 and now only carries Parade magazine weekly. A quarterly version of the Sun Magazine 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. The company introduced its website in September 1996. A redesign of

1540-757: 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. On September 23, 2011, it was reported 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

1595-661: The Times Mirror entered magazine publishing by acquiring Popular Science , Outdoor Life , Golf Magazine , and Ski Magazine . Times Mirror owned the Sporting News from 1977 until 2000, when it was sold to Paul Allen 's Vulcan Inc. In 1987, Times Mirror acquired Field & Stream , Yachting , Home Mechanix , and Skiing . In 1983, Times Mirror owned not only the Los Angeles Times but also Newsday , The Denver Post , The Dallas Times Herald , and

1650-609: The afternoon edition's circulation was 220,174, compared to 196,675 for the morning edition. 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. In 1992, the afternoon paper's circulation was 133,800. By mid-1995, The Evening Sun ' s readership—86,360—had been eclipsed by that of The Sun —264,583. The Evening Sun ceased publication on September 15, 1995. After

1705-526: 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 . 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." The paper was sold by Reg Murphy in 1986 to

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1760-656: The conservative news wire The Center Square , columns written by Smith's daughter, and features on new restaurants opened by Atlas Restaurant Group, which is owned by Smith's nephew. 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." The paper's opinion page now regularly publishes Wiliiams' columns and video commentaries. In June 2024, The Sun began republishing content from channel 45's website, provoking protests from staffers and

1815-542: The end of the month. Opinion editor Tricia Bishop, who has worked for the newspaper since 1999, would succeed him, with Smith staying on for a few months as a consultant for The Sun ' s owners. 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 Fox 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

1870-699: 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 . 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. By 2010 daily circulation as of 2010 had fallen to 195,561 and 343,552 for

1925-431: 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

1980-531: 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. In September 2008, The Baltimore Sun became the newspaper partner of station WJZ-TV , owned and operated by CBS ;

2035-583: The minority shares it had sold to CBS in 1948. Times-Mirror also purchased a former motion picture studio, Nassour Studios , in Hollywood in 1950, which was then used to consolidate KTTV's operations. Later to be known as Metromedia Square (then the Fox Television Center), the studio was sold along with KTTV to Metromedia in 1963. After a seven-year hiatus from the medium, the firm reactivated Times-Mirror Broadcasting Company with its 1970 purchase of

2090-587: The months since Smith's purchase, he has continued to tell journalists that he doesn't read stories published in their paper beyond just the headline, and has neither pitched specific stories nor openly criticized the paper's coverage of stories. Since Smith's acquisition of The Baltimore 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. The paper has also republished content from WBFF , also owned by Smith,

2145-422: 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 on September 14, 2010. In 2008, the Baltimore Sun Media Group launched the daily paper b to target younger and more casual readers, ages 18 to 35. It

2200-408: 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 Wire ' s last. The finale episode, " -30- ", features a montage at the end portraying the ultimate fate of

2255-550: The newspaper chain's foreign reporting. Some material from The Sun ' s foreign correspondents is archived at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County . 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, and competition from 2005-2007 with

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2310-642: The newsroom to the Bagby Building at 509 S. Exeter St. in Little Italy, farther away from city offices and courts. Business and advertising staffers would move to the new office over the next year. 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 . Like all of the institutions featured in The Wire ,

2365-518: 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. Current and recently departed Baltimore Sun reporters told the Neiman Foundation for Journalism in November 2024 that in

2420-452: 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. In January 2024, David D. Smith , executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, reached an agreement to acquire

2475-500: The paper, with conservative commentator Armstrong Williams holding an undisclosed stake. Though the transaction was independent of Sinclair, Smith said he foresaw 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

2530-627: The pay-TV market, with the Spotlight movie network; it wasn't successful and was quickly shut down. The cable systems were sold in the mid-1990s to Cox Communications . Times-Mirror also pared its station group down, selling off the Syracuse, Elmira and Harrisburg properties in 1986, to Smith Broadcasting. Times-Mirror briefly held WMAR-TV in Baltimore and WRLH-TV in Richmond , which were acquired alongside

2585-449: 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

2640-472: The textbook field. Times Mirror acquired Wm. C. Brown Co. in 1992. Times Mirror sold its textbook operations to McGraw-Hill in 1996. Times Mirror also owned C.V. Mosby Company from 1967–1998, which published medical college textbooks and reference books; Harry N. Abrams — a publisher of art and photography books — from 1966–1997; legal publisher Matthew Bender (from 1963 until 1998 ); and air navigation publisher Jeppesen (from 1961 until Times Mirror

2695-486: The way in which language is used. Despite this, the wording used to describe immigrants in one republished Fox 45 story was eventually changed. On October 28, 2024, the newspaper eliminated its features desk and reassigned its three reporters to news departments. The guild said in a statement that it would be the first time since 1888 that the paper would be without coverage of the city's cultural life. From 1910 to 1995 there were two distinct newspapers, The Sun , which

2750-608: Was acquired by the Tribune Company). Subsequent acquisitions, like The Baltimore Sun in 1986, expanded the company's portfolio. Times Mirror Co. was acquired by the Tribune Company in 2000. After the acquisition, Tribune sold Jeppesen to Boeing and the former Times Mirror magazines to Time Inc. The Times-Mirror Company was a founding owner of television station KTTV in Los Angeles, which opened in January 1949. It became that station's sole owner in 1951, after re-acquiring

2805-563: Was an American newspaper and print media publisher from 1884 until 2000. It had its roots in the Mirror Printing and Binding House , a commercial printing company founded in 1873, and the Los Angeles Times , originally the Los Angeles Daily Times , which was first published in 1881 and printed by the company. The two operations were purchased and combined in 1884 to form the Times Mirror Company. In 1960, Times Mirror acquired

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2860-520: Was in tabloid format, with large graphics, creative design, and humor in focusing on entertainment, news, and sports. Its companion website was bthesite.com. 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 . 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

2915-458: Was printed for the last time at its Sun Park facility. It was reported that The Sun's printing operations would be moved to a printing facility in Wilmington, Delaware . In December 2022, the Sun announced an agreement to move its offices to 200 St. Paul Place in downtown Baltimore, abandoning Sun Park altogether. After The Sun ' s purchase in 2024, its new owners signaled plans to move

2970-482: 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,

3025-831: 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;

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