Amid all the excitement in Baltimore these days over the Ravens playoff run and another MVP season from star quarterback Lamar Jackson, some grim news arrived for Charm City on Monday.
The Baltimore Sun, which was founded in 1837 and has won 16 Pulitzer Prizes, was sold to David D. Smith, chair of Sinclair Inc., the right-wing television station owner.
Smith purchased the Sun independent of Sinclair using his own funds, but envisions various “synergies” between the newspaper and his Baltimore TV station, WBFF, according to a Sun report on the sale.
A purchase price was not disclosed and the deal includes other local papers — the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Carroll County Times, Towson Times, and several small weeklies.