Baltimore Sun cuts jobs, advertising openings

By Lou Grant | Feb 15, 7:36 PM

The Daily Record, in a report by Robbie Whelan, on the Baltimore Sun cutting 45 jobs in the latest Tribune Co. cutback, reports that while the company is terminating employees at the Sun, it is also pursuing plans to launch a new publication in the Baltimore are aimed at young readers.

"The Sun's newly-established Business Development Office is actively recruiting reporters for a new print publication targeting younger readers, to be launched in April," according to the report.

A spokesperson for the Baltimore Sun refused to comment on the Company's push towards a new publication. Sam Zell, owner of Tribune Co., has praised efforts by his Florida newspapers to develop a newspaper aimed at high school students called TeenLink. He told the Los Angeles Times that ideas that work will be expanded throughout the country.

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