The Sun--sorry, under the idiot rebranding, The BALTIMORE Sun--effectively quit the newspaper business this week. The layoff of 40 people, 20 percent of the newsroom staff, followed a mass firing of editors, including copy chief John McIntyre, who was one of the last people struggling to make what was left of The Sun read like a professional newspaper.
News of this latest, possibly mortal wound to the city's daily paper, meanwhile, rated two paragraphs on the Web site of City Paper, the newspaper I used to cover The Sun for, back in the era when City Paper used to cover The Sun. Now, it looks like that's other people's work:
This via Romanesko, the Baltimore Brew, and Editor & Publisher
The reference to those three sources that broke the news ahead of City Paper was later amended, so that "Romenesko" is now spelled correctly.
