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''The Baltimore Sun'' is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the American state of Maryland and provides coverage of local and regional news, events, issues, people, and industries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=(Baltimore) The Sun )〕 ==History== ''The Sun'' was founded on May 17, 1837, by printer/publisher Arunah Shepherdson Abell (1806–1888) and two associates, William Swain (1809–1868) and Azariah H. Simmons, recently from Philadelphia, where they had started and published the ''Philadelphia Public Ledger''. Abell was born in Rhode Island, and began with the ''Providence Patriot'' and later with papers in New York City and Boston. The Abell family owned ''The Sun'' (later colloquially known in Baltimore as ''The Sunpapers''), until 1910, when the local Black and Garrett families of financial means gained a controlling interest while still retaining the name A. S. Abell Company for the parent company. The paper was sold in 1986 to the Times-Mirror Company of the ''Los Angeles Times''. The same week, the rival ''The News American'', with publishing antecedents going back to 1773, the oldest paper in the city, now since the 1920s owned by the Hearst Corporation, announced it would fold. In 1997, ''The Sun'' acquired the Patuxent Publishing Company, a local suburban newspaper publisher that had a stable of weekly papers.〔(Baltimore Sun to buy Patuxent Publishing Columbia company has 15 newspapers, magazines in region )〕 ''The Sun'', like most legacy newspapers in the United States, has suffered a number of setbacks of late, including a decline in readership, a shrinking newsroom, and competition from a new free daily, ''The Baltimore Examiner'', which has ceased publication. In 2000, the Times-Mirror company was purchased by the Tribune Company of Chicago, whose newspapers, including ''The Sun'', were transferred to Tribune Publishing in 2014. From 1947 to 1986, ''The Sun'' was the owner of Maryland's first television station, WMAR-TV. On September 19, 2005, and again on August 24, 2008, ''The Baltimore Sun'' introduced new layout designs. Its circulation was 195,561 for the daily edition and 343,552 on Sundays. On April 29, 2009, the Tribune Company announced that it would lay off 61 of the 205 staff members in the ''Sun'' newsroom.〔Mirabella, Lorraine; () ''The Baltimore Sun'', April 28, 2009 〕 On September 23, 2011, it was reported that the ''Baltimore Sun'' would be moving its web edition behind a paywall starting October 10, 2011. ''The Baltimore Sun'' is the flagship of the Baltimore Sun Media Group, which also produces the ''b'' free daily newspaper and more than 30 other Baltimore metropolitan-area community newspapers, magazines and Web sites. BSMG content reaches more than one million Baltimore-area readers each week and is the region's most widely read source of news.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=(Baltimore) The Sun ) 〕 On February 20, 2014, The Baltimore Sun Media Group announced they are going to buy the alternative weekly City Paper. In April, the Sun acquired the Maryland publications of Landmark Media Enterprises.〔(Baltimore Sun Media Group buys The Capital in Annapolis and the Carroll County Times )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Baltimore Sun」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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