53-453: STATS may refer to: Statistical Assessment Service STATS LLC, a former name of Stats Perform , most notable for compiling one of the main ranking systems in NCAA Division I FCS football See also [ edit ] Stats Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
106-432: 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
159-550: 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
212-415: A contributor to Reason magazine, and Stephen Rose. The first director of STATS was David Murray, who previously worked for The Heritage Foundation and was later chief scientist for the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy . STATS is now a project of Sense About Science USA The organization does not publicize their donors nor disclose their donors on Internal Revenue Service filings, but
265-407: 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
318-491: 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
371-570: 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
424-475: 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
477-539: A professor of communications at George Mason University . In 2001, Lichter and his staff published It Ain't Necessarily So , a book about the media's coverage of a range of topics from crime statistics to the 2001 anthrax attacks . The Philadelphia Inquirer called it "a solid critique of the way data-based reports and studies are presented in the media", while Salon.com felt that the book employed "the very same tactics that it finds so objectionable when used by journalists and publishers". In 2007, STATS sponsored
530-662: A review of IRS documents did show a $ 100,000 donation from the Sarah Scaife Foundation in 2007, a number that nearly equaled the listed assets of the Statistical Assessment Service. STATS produced an annual list called the "Dubious Data Awards", highlighting egregious factual inaccuracies in news reporting. In 2006, it challenged a study by the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse , used by The New York Times and Forbes , which claimed that almost half of
583-475: A survey of climate scientists, which was conducted by Harris International. The survey found that most climate scientists believe that human-induced global warming is occurring, although there is disagreement about its consequences, and few trust the popular media coverage of climate change . In 2009, the Milwaukee 'Journal-Sentinel argued that STATS's coverage of the chemical Bisphenol A verged on advocacy for
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#1732883633998636-414: 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
689-503: 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
742-583: 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 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
795-614: 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
848-579: The Los Angeles Times , among other news organizations. In 2004, STATS was quoted in newspaper articles about the use of statistics in political rhetoric. During the presidential election of 2004, the organization challenged claims by both George W. Bush and John Kerry at the request of the Associated Press . STATS sponsored educational workshops, seminars, and webinars, such as the 2013 webinar, "Understanding Risk: A Primer for Journalists" at
901-576: 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
954-465: 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
1007-698: 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
1060-460: 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
1113-461: 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
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#17328836339981166-488: 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
1219-537: The National Press Foundation. Goldin lectures at universities and colleges across the country about the use and misuse of statistics, and was a Nifty Fifty Speaker for the U.S. Science and Engineering Festival in both 2012 and 2014. Baltimore Sun 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. Founded in 1837,
1272-633: 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
1325-812: 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
1378-609: 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
1431-400: The alcohol industry's revenue came from underage drinkers. According to STATS, American teenagers who drink alcohol would each have to consume more than 1,000 drinks per year for this to be true. STATS has also disagreed with recommendations from Time that parents should discontinue use of soft vinyl toys, teethers, and similar products containing phthalates . STATS made this case based on
1484-526: 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
1537-535: The chemical industry. On the STATS website, Lichter posted a response disputing the Journal-Sentinel article, calling its reporting and logic "flawed". In 2010, Donors Trust awarded STATS $ 86,000 for its "research efforts". STATS was dissolved in 2014, and its website adopted by Sense About Science USA. According to its website in 2006, the organization's goal was to help correct "scientific misinformation in
1590-656: 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
1643-542: 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
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1696-519: The fact that phthalates in children's toys have been cleared for use by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission ; however, the European Union 's Institute for Health and Consumer Protection has taken the opposite position, restricting the use of phthalate plasticizers in children's toys since 1998 and banning their manufacture in the E.U. in 2015 due to persistent health concerns. The annual list has received coverage from The Washington Post and
1749-699: 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
1802-531: 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 ;
1855-532: The media resulting from bad science, politics, or a simple lack of information or knowledge; and to act as a resource for journalists and policy makers on major scientific issues and controversies". Lichter was quoted by the Baltimore Sun in 1998, saying, "journalists are deluged with numbers representing findings in fields they're not familiar with". Its sister organization is the Center for Media and Public Affairs , also affiliated with George Mason. Before
1908-587: 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,
1961-422: 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
2014-408: 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
2067-550: 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
2120-525: 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 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
2173-642: 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 ,
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2226-518: 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
2279-452: 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
2332-557: The organization was dissolved in 2016, Lichter served as the organization's president. Other personnel included director of research Rebecca Goldin , a professor of mathematical sciences at George Mason and the Ruth Michler Fellow at Cornell University , and STATS.org editor Trevor Butterworth, who is also listed as a senior fellow, and writes for the Huffington Post . As of 2010 , other senior fellows included Maia Szalavitz,
2385-500: 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
2438-449: 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
2491-500: The title STATS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=STATS&oldid=1058716207 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Statistical Assessment Service Statistical Assessment Service (STATS)
2544-486: 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
2597-400: Was a non-profit organization that analyzed and critiqued the presentation of scientific findings and statistical evidence in the news media . Formerly associated with George Mason University and the Center for Media and Public Affairs , STATS is currently associated with Jon Entine 's Science Literacy Project and Sense About Science USA. STATS was founded in 1994 by S. Robert Lichter ,
2650-520: 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
2703-458: 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
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#17328836339982756-482: 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,
2809-649: 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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