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Baltimore Sun Axes Entire Features Department: ‘These Draconian Measures Are Demoralizing’

TheWrap · Josh Dickey · last updated
The Baltimore Sun has dissolved its entire features section, reassigning some of its most celebrated writers to news departments and leaving the paper without any culture coverage for the first time since 1888, the paper’s guild announced.

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