The only sign that ownership of the Baltimore Guide recently changed is subtle: On its web site, the name of its publisher changed from long-time owner Richard Sandza to recent buyer Darwin Oordt. “It happened a couple of weeks ago,” editor Jacqueline Watts explains in a brief phone chat today. “Frankly,” Watts says, “we don’t...
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The sudden closing of the Baltimore Examiner left a bunch of Baltimore journalists looking for work, many of whom got their start grinding out stories for Philip Anschutz’ free daily. The paper also had a couple of experienced Baltimore hands filling their columns. One of them–columnist Gregory Kane–has resurfaced at the free weekly The Baltimore...
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A colleague just sent us this tidbit from the Baltimore Business Journal, revealing that the Baltimore Sun plans to stop weekday distribution in Prince George’s, Montgomery, and Frederick counties. It will also stop delivering to Garret County. This on the tail of the news that the Baltimore Examiner will close up shop on Feb. 15...
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Today the Bivings Group, a Washington-based internet communications firm, released the findings of its 2008 study of how traditional print newspapers are coping with the steady evolution of online content in the media. The organization studied 100 “major” newspapers selected based on circulation (the sampling included USA Today, the New York Times, the Wall...
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New media, new rules? The Baltimore Sun Media Group’s free publication b seems to be pushing the boundaries of journalism, and not necessarily in a good way. Lori Barrett’s blog posts, reprinted in b daily under the heading “b-log,” have gone back and forth on giving credit to the media outlets that reported the news...
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This press release from The Examiner just hit CP’s inbox–longtime columnist Gregory Kane is leaving The Sun and going to work for the competition. Wow. And while we’re talking about The Sun, we can’t help but wonder whether a recent On the Job column from Hanah Cho, titled “Layoff Survivors Face Guilt, Uncertainty,” was inspired...
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The Sun’s front page today is dominated by a photograph of a foreclosure “victim.” Veronica Peterson is about to be thrown out of a home she bought in November 2006 with two loans totaling $545,000. The story is about the mortgage bailout plan signed this morning by President Bush, but the new rules–which will go...
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The Double T Diner in Catonsville is an odd place for the mayor of Baltimore to go for a breakfast meeting. Located about 10 miles west of City Hall on Baltimore National Pike, just outside the Beltway, the Double T is a large retro-styled restaurant serving diner food-the same schtick, albeit in a scaled-down...
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Phillip Robinson Winkfield came up for arraignment on drugs and weapons charges in Baltimore City Circuit Court on June 30, when he met his adversary: the chief of the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office narcotics division, Antonio Gioia. Such high-level handling of Winkfield’s case by the city’s top drug prosecutor highlights not so much...
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Turns out that blogging intern we wrote about earlier was right: The Sun just announced that the Baltimore Sun Media Group will eliminate about 100 more jobs by early August.
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A colleague forwarded us a link today to a blog called Trials and Tribulations of a Baltimore Sun Intern. Per this intern, there’s a big, old staff meeting at the Sun today at 4 p.m., according to a memo from Sun editor Tim Franklin which was put up on the blog this morning. Intrepid Intern...
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About a month ago, I posted something about the fact that The Sun and The Examiner are in danger of using up all the internets with an explosion of Baltimore blogs. It’s easy to see why they’re doing it from a business point of view–it’s a heck of a lot cheaper than paying a...
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The Sun reported yesterday that Sean Rondell Bundy, 24, and Tyron Sherrod Rich, 26, were indicted in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. The Atlantic City, N.J.-to-Elkton story of the immediate drug-distribution charges against these guys is what The...
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Baltimore County District Court Judge Bruce Lamdin today was ordered to take a 30-day, unpaid break from his judicial duties, when the Maryland Court of Appeals released its opinion about his overly loose tongue from the bench. The suspension begins May 19. In addition to docking his pay while he’s suspended, the court also...
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The Boston Globe has a story today about Guy Randolph, a formerly registered sex offender who has been exonerated 17 years after taking an Alford plea to charges of sexual assault. Randolph originally received a suspended sentence of 10 years, then violated his probation by missing an alcohol counseling session and served the full...
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Forbes has honored Baltimore by putting it on its Top Ten List of worst housing markets, as measured by inventory overhang and rate of sales. Tip of the blog hat to Baltimore Housing Bubble whose commenters wonder why Detroit and Las Vegas, two undisputed real estate basket cases, failed to make the list.
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We noticed recently that The Examiner is getting all Web 3.9 on us. They started about a million new blogs this month. Actual totals (by our count): The Ex has 39 blogs, ranging from “The Baltimore Crime Examiner” to “The Baltimore Disc Golf Examiner,” while The Sun has a piddling 35 blogs, the standout, of...
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The Baltimore Sun’s planned daily newspaper targeting the region’s young, sociable scenesters, called b, is scheduled to hit the streets in April, but it has already drawn legal heat. The weekly Baltimore Guide, whose own offshoot publication targeting that demographic, called b*morelive, which was rolled out last summer, today filed a letter of protest...
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