Today The New York Times announced that it would begin requiring heavy users of its website to buy a digital subscription, which range from roughly $15 to $35 per month. The letter to readers from...
Just eight months after Montgomery Cook resigned as top editor of The Baltimore Sun to accept a job as a journalism professor at the University of North Carolina, his alma mater, he has been forced...
Anyone who cares about The Baltimore Sun must read the shocking story on the front page of today's New York Times, "At Sam Zell's Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture".
In it, superb Times media...
Local National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate WYPR (88.1 FM) will launch a news series on transporatation in the Baltimore region that will, to quote a press release "address challenges and...
City Paper yesterday lost a defamation suit brought by a Miami restauranter who CP's Van Smith incorrectly identified in a 2008 story as a federal fugitive (Press Check detailed the case earlier this...
City Paper senior staff writer Van Smith appeared in U.S. District Court yesterday to testify in a defamation case brought against the alt-weekly by Miami restauranteur Ioannis Kafouros, whom Smith...
The eyes of the world were on Baltimore yesterday, during the tense armed standoff at Johns Hopkins Hospital that left the gunman and his mother dead and one doctor wounded. And our local media,...
The Sun re-launched its Sunday magazine as promised, left. I'm curious to hear what readers thought of it.
It opens with a one-page rundown of Fall events, and follows with four features. The first...
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