Forget about downsizing, these guys have tried that. The free tabloid just announced they’re going to just stop publishing here next month. Web version’s going away too. They couldn’t find a buyer.
Here’s the BBJ article.
Let us pause for a moment to bid farewell to The Examiner. For a little while, thanks to them, we were a two-newspaper town, treated to the occasional tawdry, but tell-it-like-it-is headline like this one. So, a bad day for the local news biz and for Baltimore. We’ve lost 90 jobs and lots of journalistic eyes and ears.
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Saturday, February, 4th, 2012
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February 3, 2012
February 1, 2012
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Baltimore’s guerrilla crosswalk artists
Transportation officials don’t like it, but Hampden residents are apparently fed up – they want cross-walks repainted on The Avenue and if the city’s not going to maintain the crosswalks on this busy north Baltimore street, they’re doing it themselves. Deborah Patterson, a former OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow who runs ArtBlocks, is one of the ringleaders. [...]
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January 31, 2012
January 30, 2012
Dumping of hot metal caused Sparrows Point fire, state told
RG Steel told Maryland environmental officials today that the weekend fire that lit up the skies around Sparrows Point was caused by the disposal of hot metal from the mill’s blast furnace. “We were told that conditions relating to the idling and subsequent restart of the blast furnace led to the need to dispose of [...]
January 28, 2012
Below the Fold
January 27, 2012
Your Baltimore Weekend
Catching up on a slew of interesting things to do and read this weekend that we almost lost track of in the Kickstarter hub-bub. Here are just a few: SATURDAY (1/28/12) New Mercury Non-fiction Reading – Check out tell-it-like-it-is education blogger Edit Barry (see below) and a pack of other feisty non-fictional characters from the [...]
