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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Margaret Sullivan

Local newspapers are withering under destructive owners. We should worry

Actors Clark Johnson, Brandon Young, Michelle Paress and Tom McCarthy in the fifth season of The Wire, which partly followed the Baltimore Sun.
Actors Clark Johnson, Brandon Young, Michelle Paress and Tom McCarthy in the fifth season of The Wire, which partly followed the Baltimore Sun. Photograph: AP

Paul Moore vividly remembers the Baltimore Sun in its heyday, not so long ago.

“More than 400 newsroom staff, six foreign bureaus and a 12-person Washington bureau,” Moore recalled. He was the Sun’s deputy managing editor (and, for a time, its public editor) until 2009. “We were a full-service newspaper, covering the country, the region and the world.” And winning multiple Pulitzer prizes for the quality of its aggressive, ambitious journalism.

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