Baltimore Evening 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 M. 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, where he began journalism with the Providence Patriot. He later worked with newspapers 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; they retained the name A. S. Abell Company for the parent company. From 1947 to 1986, The Sun was the owner of Maryland's first television station, WMAR-TV.
The paper was sold in 1986 to the Times-Mirror Company of the Los Angeles Times. The same week, the rival News American, with publishing antecedents since 1773, announced that it would fold. The oldest paper in the city, it had been owned by the Hearst Corporation since the 1920s. In 1997, The Sun acquired the Patuxent Publishing Company, a local suburban newspaper publisher that had a stable of weekly papers.
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, and competition in 2005 from a new free daily, The Baltimore Examiner. That ceased publication in 2007. In 2000, the Times-Mirror company was purchased by the Tribune Company of Chicago. I, 2014 it transferred its newspapers, including The Sun, to Tribune Publishing.
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