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Baltimore Sun stories: 5 news summaries

 Tribune Company 
 Files for Bankruptcy 

Financing billions in debt becomes too onerous in down economy

Dec 8, 08 2:09 PM CST
(Newser) - The Tribune Company filed today for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, due to mounting debt and an inability to pay interest in the floundering economy, the Wall Street Journal reports. Tribune’s profits declined 83% in the third quarter, making it difficult to finance $12 billion in debt. The company has... More »

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Sam Zell • Tribune Company • bankruptcy • leveraged buyouts • debt • Los Angeles Times • Baltimore Sun • Chapter 11 • Chicago Tribune • financial crisis

Chicago Tribune Editor Resigns Amid Cutbacks

Ann Marie Lipinski
ends 7-year run in job 'not the fit it once was'

Jul 14, 08 3:58 PM CDT
(AP) - Chicago Tribune editor Ann Marie Lipinski handed in her resignation today after 7 years in the top post at the Tribune Company's flagship paper. Lipinski's departure comes a week after the 161-year-old newspaper told its staff it would eliminate about 80 newsroom jobs amid a broad effort to cut costs... More »

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newspaper • Sam Zell • Tribune Company • editor • Los Angeles Times • Baltimore Sun • Chicago Tribune • Ann Marie Lipinski • Gerould Kern

'Wire' Spotlight Burns Paper

Show's creator defends portrayal of real-life newsmen

Jan 16, 08 1:25 PM CST
(Newser) - The portrayal of battered, prize-grubbing  and unscrupulous journalists in HBO's “The Wire”—based loosely on creator David Simon’s years at the downsizing Baltimore Sun—has provoked a furious internet outcry from some former colleagues who can't help but recognize themselves, the Washington Post reports. One highly regarded... More »

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HBO • The Wire • David Simon • Baltimore Sun • newsrooms

Critics Love Wire's Media Turn

Final season 'paints realistic portrait of newsroom'

Jan 6, 08 4:32 PM CST
(Newser) - Entering its last season, HBO's urban drama The Wire "succeeds strikingly at getting what's wrong just right," Tom Shales writes in the Washington Post. “Written and acted to the highest standards of the best TV drama,” the show has dealt with drugs, job loss, and school... More »

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entertainment • HBO • TV shows • reviews • The Wire • Baltimore Sun

Wire's Architect Begins His
Final Chapter

David Simon put whole life, love of Baltimore into HBO's hit drama

Oct 15, 07 8:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - The final season of HBO critical darling The Wire lands in January, and will revolve around the newsroom—the last unscripted setting from creator David Simon’s own experience. The show has tackled drug runners, cops, dockworkers, and inner-city schoolchildren “with sociological precision,” reports New Yorker’s Margaret... More »

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crime • HBO • Baltimore • Wire • David Simon • Baltimore Sun • Captain Ahab • newsrooms

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