Baltimore Business Journal: Baltimore Sun union starts aggressive push for new nonprofit ownership
Unions representing journalists at the Baltimore Sun launched a "Save Our Sun" campaign Thursday in an effort to detach the newspaper from its corporate ownership and create a nonprofit news model.
The effort by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild and the NewsGuild-CWA seeks to return the Sun to local ownership under a revenue model that would reinvest its profits back into the newspaper.
"We started Save Our Sun to ensure we have the resources we need to keep doing our jobs, preserve newspapering in Baltimore and prepare a national model for local communities to buy their newspaper back," said Liz Bowie, a union leader and reporter at the Sun, in a statement. "We believe that local control will provide better stewardship of the Sun, while also protecting jobs and bringing better benefits and working conditions."
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