The Baltimore Sun

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Overview

About The Baltimore Sun

The Baltimore Sun Company publishes The Sun newspaper and baltimoresun.com, together reaching more than 70 percent of all adults across central Maryland. Founded in 1837 as one of the original "penny press" newspapers, The Baltimore Sun now is part of Tribune Company, which reaches more than 80 percent of all U.S. households through its publishing, broadcasting and online media.

Located in the historic Mt. Vernon neighborhood of downtown Baltimore, The Sun brings readers world and national news, as well as local news from its offices in Baltimore and the surrounding counties. Its reporters have won many of journalism's most coveted prizes, including 15 Pulitzers. The Sun's commitment to independent, thorough, fair and accurate reporting makes it Maryland's most trusted source of news and information. The Baltimore Sun also operates Patuxent Publishing, which publishes community newspapers in Howard, Arundel and Baltimore Counties, and Homestead Publishing, which publishes Harford County's The Aegis.

On the internet, baltimoresun.com, founded in 1996, has become Maryland's top local news website, with 32 million page views and 2.2 million unique users per month. In addition to the full content of the print editions of The Sun, baltimoresun.com offers updates throughout the day on breaking news and developing stories, as well as original features, sports and business reporting. Baltimoresun.com also is part of some of the nation's top online advertising networks, including Cars.com and Careerbuilder.

The Baltimore Sun also is a major local employer, with more than 1,000 full- or part-time employees at all of our business locations. With its 170+ year history of outstanding journalism, service to readers and value for advertisers, The Baltimore Sun is a proud and active part of the civic, cultural and economic life of the Baltimore community.

Mission

To be Maryland’s most trusted and useful source of news and information.

Benefits

Our employees choose The Baltimore Sun for a variety of reasons including our excellent reputation, award winning history, and belief in our product. They stay at The Baltimore Sun because of our team-oriented environment, opportunities for advancement, fun and challenging work and they love their jobs. The Baltimore Sun offers a dynamic environment that allows employees to think outside the box, which provides a solid foundation for creativity and growth. In addition to benefits of working for a great company, The Baltimore Sun, one of Maryland’s largest employers, proudly offers a comprehensive benefits package to all full time employees to cover you, your family or domestic partner. We know that it is our employees that drive our success. Our employees can choose benefit options that will fit their needs so that they can focus on their careers and future.

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision

Retirement – Planning for your future has never been more important.

Vacation – We all need time to recharge.

Sick Days

Personal Days – When things pop up.

Paid Volunteer Days – Give back to the community.

Life Insurance – To protect your family’s future.

Long Term Disability – To protect you and your family.

Employee Assistance Program – 24/7 support when you’re in need.

Free Passes to local attractions

Discounts – To local theaters, merchants, and gyms. Our goal is to ensure you have access to benefits, both monetary and environmental so you need so you can focus on what is important, your career and future.

Diversity

At The Baltimore Sun, strong values guide our actions every day. These values are citizenship, customer service, diversity, employee involvement, financial strength, innovation, integrity and teamwork. These values are our commitment to our employees, shareholders, customers and communities.

Diversity is a business imperative for The Baltimore Sun. Our goal is to build a diverse, energetic working environment that recognizes and encourages creativity and excellence. Meeting the expectations of our diverse customer groups requires different products and services and varied levels of expertise and innovation. We strive to have a workforce that reflects the markets we serve. Our goal is to enhance The Baltimore Sun’s performance by weaving diversity into the fabric of daily operations

Vision

We exist to serve our readers, advertisers, employees, shareholders and the community through journalistic and financial excellence, and we are committed to a workplace where employees are treated with respect and given responsibility and opportunity.

Core Values

In order to accomplish our mission and vision we must live by our values. This is what sets apart a good company from a great one. This is also the reason that we have been successful since 1837 and will continue to be the market leader of the future.

COMPANY CORE VALUES

1. KEEP YOUR WORD. If we commit to a viewer or a vendor, a customer or competitor, we keep our word. Especially to each other. So use your best judgment when giving your word, because the expectation is that you will keep it.

2. COLLABORATE. We help each other out. We do what needs to be done, even if “it’s not our job.” We cooperate with competitors to improve our industry. We work together to grow revenue in the market and the industry. We have the backs of our teammates and we find solutions instead of placing blame.

3. NO SURPRISES. If something isn’t going according to plan, communicate it before it’s “discovered.” Show this respect to your supervisors and expect it from your subordinates. Problems are often less problematic when more people are working on the solution. Secrets make you lonely, and keeping them shows very poor judgment.

4. COMPETE. Play to win. Market shares add to 100%. We can’t grow our share of revenue or audience unless someone else’s goes down.

5. PLAY FAIR. But remember that there is nothing unfair about taking advantage of a competitor’s weakness. It’s not unfair to scoop a competitor on a big story or closet them on a key account. Not playing to win is unfair to your teammates and to all of the company’s stakeholders.

6. TAKE INTELLIGENT RISK. We are in a period of accelerating change. The riskiest thing you can do is nothing. Doing something just because that is the way it has always been done is only acceptable if you can stop time.

7. REWARD SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE. Successful performance should result in bonuses and promotions. Working hard is not the same as being successful. Life isn’t always fair. Luck and timing have a great deal to do with success, but over time, rewarding successful performance is the right thing.

8. QUESTION AUTHORITY. In transforming Tribune, you are encouraged to ask your manager, supervisor, business unit head or anyone in Corporate, any question you have regarding the business. Question authority and push back if you do not like the answer. You will earn respect, and not get into trouble for asking tough questions. Remember, you are an employee owner. You have the right and obligation to ask questions.

9. SERVE OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES. We take our obligation to serve the public interest, need, and convenience seriously. While much of our programming and content is light entertainment, we are committed to serving our communities. When bad weather keeps most inside and away from their jobs, we have a particular obligation to go to work. Emergencies and disasters are times for “all hands on deck.” If this commitment is not in your DNA, Tribune Company may be the wrong place for you. This commitment goes far beyond slogans and marketing. It means that we will do what we can to bond with the audiences who watch, listen to and read the products we deliver and depend on us to provide information and entertainment. It is imperative that we do all we can to make sure they can count on us when being accurately informed is most important. We cannot control the output of networks and syndicators. We are in complete control of how we serve our audience. Nothing short of superlative performance in this area will do.

© 2008 Tribune Company

Awards

The Baltimore Sun and its employees have been recognized with top industry awards:

Maryland Delaware DC Press Association
The Sun, Newspaper of the Year

American Association Of Sunday And Feature Editors
2007 Excellence-In-Feature-Writing Contest Winners,General Feature

Associated Press Managing Editors
Public Service Award: On Shaky Ground

Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism
Second place: On Shaky Ground

Feature Specialty Reporting

Investigative Reporters and Editor
Certificate (First place):On Shaky Ground

Loeb Awards
First place: Crab Factory -

Mike Berger Award for Writing

National Association of Real Estate Editors
Collection of Work by an Individual

Serial Report

Outstanding Young Journalist

Team Report

Polk Awards
Medical reporting
First place: Dangerous Remedy

Pulitzer Prize
Finalist,Local Reporting: On Shaky Ground

Society for News Design International Contest
(all First Place)

"Taste: A lover's lunch."

"Varsity: One-track mind."

"Flight 93: 'When they all come, we finish it off.' "

"Preakness preview: The Undefeated."

"Preakness: Heartache stakes."

"Health & Science: Targeting Taste." Page designed by Anthony Conroy.

"9/11, five years later: 'I think we're getting hijacked.' "

Society of Professional Journalist
Sigma Delta Chi Award
First place:Washington correspondence, NSA coverarge

Contact

The Baltimore Sun Company
501 N. Calvert Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21278
410-332-6000
www.baltimoresun.com

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