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Below is a list of newspapers, with links, covering news of the state of Maryland. Of course, the newspapers in Washington, DC cover considerably more than news about Maryland, but most of the others listed stick fairly close to home. The Baltimore papers, once part of the large city tradition of media, are owned by the bankrupt Tribune company and, like most newspapers across America, have undergone forceful reductions in reporting staff and national reach.
Just when newspapers are experiencing the most important challenge to their relevance in the last two hundred fifty years, they are cutting back and eliminating some of the reasons people turn to them for news and information. This would make sense if the reductions were followed by a clear, new direction, but, as yet, that has eluded newspaper management. Instead, they are cutting to please Wall Street and to demonstrate they know how to run a profitable business in tough times. That is not a long term strategy to be successful, unless success just happens to thrust itself on them.
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