The Baltimore Sun is the major newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland, with a daily press sun of about 430,000 copies, and a Sunday run of 540,000 copies. It was founded on May 17, 1837 by a printer Arunah Shepherdson Abell. The Abell family owned the paper through 1910, when the Black family had a controlling interest. The paper was sold in 1986 to the Times Mirror Company, the same week the Baltimore News-American announced it would fold.
Though now there is only a morning issue, for many years there were two distinct editions, with different reporting and editorial staffs, the Baltimore Sun in the morning and the Baltimore Evening Sun in the afternoon.
In 2000 Times Mirror merged with the Tribune Company.
The Sun's most famous correspondent was probably H.L. Mencken. The paper was won 15 Pulitzer Prizes as of 2003
