The Baltimore Sun
Front page of The Baltimore Sun,
June 16, 2009 |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | tronc, Inc. |
| Publisher | Trif Alatzas |
| Founded | May 17, 1837 |
| Headquarters | 501 North Calvert Street Baltimore, Maryland 21278 U.S. |
| Circulation | 177,054 Daily 309,061 Sunday |
| ISSN | 1930-8965 |
| Website | baltimoresun |
The Baltimore Sun is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the American state of Maryland and provides coverage of local and regional news, events, issues, people, and industries. Founded in 1837, it is owned by tronc, Inc. (formerly known as Tribune Publishing).
The Sun was founded on May 17, 1837, by printer/publisher Arunah Shepherdson Abell (1806–1888) and two associates, William Swain (1809–1868) and Azariah H. Simmons, recently from Philadelphia, where they had started and published the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Abell was born in Rhode Island, and began with the Providence Patriot and later with papers in New York City and Boston. The Abell family owned The Sun (later colloquially known in Baltimore as The Sunpapers), until 1910, when the local Black and Garrett families of financial means gained a controlling interest while still retaining the name A. S. Abell Company for the parent company. The paper was sold in 1986 to the Times-Mirror Company of the Los Angeles Times. The same week, the rival The News American, with publishing antecedents going back to 1773, the oldest paper in the city, now since the 1920s owned by the Hearst Corporation, announced it would fold. In 1997, The Sun acquired the Patuxent Publishing Company, a local suburban newspaper publisher that had a stable of weekly papers.
The Sun, like most legacy newspapers in the United States, has suffered a number of setbacks of late, including a decline in readership, a shrinking newsroom, and competition from a new free daily, The Baltimore Examiner, which has ceased publication. In 2000, the Times-Mirror company was purchased by the Tribune Company of Chicago, whose newspapers, including The Sun, were transferred to Tribune Publishing in 2014.
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