THE BALTIMORE SUN

'''The Baltimore Sun''' is a daily newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland, long considered the newspaper of record there. It was founded on May 17, 1837, by printer Arunah Shepherdson Abell and two associates. The Abell family owned the paper through 1910, when the Black family gained a controlling interest. The paper was sold in 1986 to the Times-Mirror Company of Los Angeles. The same week, the rival ''Baltimore News American'', owned by the Hearst Corporation, announced it would fold. The Sun, like most legacy newspapers in the United States, has suffered a number of setbacks as of late, including a decline in readership, a shrinking newsroom and competition from a new free daily, The Baltimore Examiner.^[2]
Although there is now only a morning edition, for many years there were two distinct newspapers--''The Sun'' in the morning and ''The Evening Sun'' in the afternoon--each with its own reporting and editorial staff. The ''Evening Sun'' was first published in 1910. In keeping with the nationwide shutdown of p.m. dailies, ''The Evening Sun'' ceased publication on September 15, 1995.
In 2000, the Times-Mirror company was purchased by the Tribune Company, of Chicago.
On September 19, 2005, ''The Sun'' introduced a new layout design.
Among writers, editors and cartoonists of prominence on the staff of the Sun papers: Russell Baker, John Carroll, Turner Catledge, Price Day, Edmund Duffy, J. Fred Essary, Thomas Flannery, Jack Germond, Gerald W. Johnson, Kevin P. Kallaugher, Frank R. Kent, William Manchester, H.L. Mencken, Hamilton Owens, Drew Pearson, Louis Rukeyser, Raymond S. Tompkins, Paul W. Ward, Mark Watson, Jules Witcover, and Richard Q. Yardley. The paper has won 15 Pulitzer Prizes.
''The Sun'' has an active bulletin board where posters discuss and debate issues. The bulletin board includes a National/International forum, a Local forum, a Sports forum, and an Open Mike forum. The bulletin board is http://www.baltimoresun2.com/talk/index.php.
The paper had become embroiled in a controversy involving the former governor of Maryland, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R). Ehrlich's press office issued an order in November 2004 banning state executive branch employees from talking to columnist Michael Olesker (who resigned on January 4, 2006, after incidences of his plagiarism were discovered and reported on by local media outlets and eventually by ''The Sun'' itself) and reporter David Nitkin. This led ''The Sun'' to file a First Amendment lawsuit against the Ehrlich administration. ''The Sun'' lost the first round in federal court; as of 2006, a decision on an appeal is pending. This controversy has since died down since Martin O'Malley denied Ehrlich reelection by winning the 2006 election.

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1. 2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation
2. Examiner Plans Baltimore Edition

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★ www.baltimoresun.com