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		<title>Reporter finds herself the witness in alleged tutoring&#160;scam</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Jacobson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago I learned of a possible fraud that would have caught my interest when I was a reporter at The Baltimore Sun: tax dollars might have been stolen, a child’s school record appeared to be falsified. And a parent’s signature had been forged.

But I no longer worked for the Sun. The student with the falsified record was my son. And I was the parent whose signature had been forged.]]></description>
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		<title>Developer still seeks to knock down historic &quot;Superblock&quot; buildings on Baltimore&#8217;s decaying west&#160;side</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[story by JOAN JACOBSON, photos by ELIZABETH SUMAN Some of the finest examples of historic preservation in Baltimore are on the rickety west side of downtown, right where the city may need them most. There’s the ornate, wedding-white Stewarts Department store (now Catholic Relief Services headquarters), the flagship Hecht Company building on Howard Street and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Word from the Tribune reorganization talks: Zell may be&#160;out</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Jacobson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COLD TYPE: A Baltimore Media Blog By JOAN JACOBSON  A spark of hope for the newspaper industry arrived today in the form of a Chicago Tribune story that quoted unnamed sources who said the U.S. Bankruptcy Court overseeing the Tribune Corporation’s reorganization may transfer control of the company from Chicago billionaire Sam &#8220;the Gravedancer&#8221; Zell to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency summit on Baltimore journalism: anger, grief and not much&#160;relief</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Jacobson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by JOAN JACOBSON Near the end of last night’s symposium, billed as an exploration of the future of local journalism in Baltimore, panelist John J. &#8220;Jake&#8221; Oliver Jr., The Afro-American’s publisher, put his finger on the problem: “I get the sense here tonight that this is a wake,” he said. Indeed. With The Baltimore Sun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U-Md symposium: &quot;The End of Local&#160;News?&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 20:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Jacobson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COLD TYPE: A Baltimore media blog By JOAN JACOBSON What happens to local news if the daily newspaper ceases publication? And what might take its place? Those are the questions being explored in Baltimore next Tuesday (6/2/09) at a symposium entitled &#8220;The End of Local News? If Communities Lose Newspapers, Who Will Fill the Void?&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public housing forum: angry tenants and no-show&#160;officials</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2009/05/19/public-housing-forum-angry-tenants-and-no-show-officials/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 03:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Jacobson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Story by JOAN JACOBSON, photos by FERN SHEN More than 100 irritated public housing tenants and their advocates packed the People’s Forum on Public Housing last night, wanting to know why the Housing Authority of Baltimore City is demolishing thousands of public housing units with no plans to replace them, why their homes are poorly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Housing for Baltimore’s Poor: Going, Going,&#160;Gone.</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2009/05/18/public-housing-for-baltimore%e2%80%99s-poor-going-going-gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 16:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Jacobson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JOAN JACOBSON  For any Baltimore citizen interested in knowing how the very poor are truly being treated by the city, come to the People’s Public Forum on Baltimore’s Public Housing tomorrow (May 19) at 6 p.m. at the Greater Baltimore Urban League, 512 Orchard Street (near the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Boldface&#160;Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 10:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Jacobson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COLD TYPE: A Baltimore Media Blog by JOAN JACOBSON At the bottom right-hand corner of yesterday’s Baltimore Sun is an explanation about the paper’s new typeface that couldn’t be further from the truth: &#8220;To Our readers: Today you may notice that we have changed the newspaper’s type styles to improve readability.&#8221; The reason for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baltimore Sun Letters to the Editor: Back from the&#160;Dead</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2009/05/06/baltimore-sun-letters-to-the-editor-back-from-the-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 14:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Jacobson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COLD TYPE: A Baltimore Media Blog By JOAN JACOBSON On May 3, I wrote the obit of the Baltimore Sun’s letters to the editor, as they disappeared April 30, replaced with insipid, anonymous tweets and comments  from the website&#8217;s blogs. Well, the letters have returned today, though equal space is allotted to the anonymous “talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obituary for &quot;Letters to the&#160;Editor&quot;</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2009/05/03/obituary-for-letters-to-the-editor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 03:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Jacobson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COLD TYPE: A Baltimore Media Blog by JOAN JACOBSON The Baltimore Sun ’s &#8220;Letters to the Editor&#8221; unexpectedly died April 30 after a robust life of more than a century, one more casualty of the stunning deterioration of American newspapers. The feature was a victim of the ever-expanding murder plot to kill off the Fourth [...]]]></description>
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