Media

April 3, 2013

Well, the Texans got Ed Reed, the Titans got Bernard Pollard, and…ESPN got Ray Lewis.

A review of top stories of the region with the reporters who covered them. This hour, WYPR’s Karen Hosler has her report from Annapolis, the Baltimore Sun’s Justin Fenton details West Baltimore violence, and the Baltimore Brew’s Mark Reutter talks about Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake’s budget that includes new taxes and fees. Plus a follow-up on our report on Maryland legislation that would establish a container deposit system in the state. 

March 18, 2013

March 20, 2013

John McIntyre edits The Lord's Prayer

How to know when you're "looking up a dead hog's ass"

Much, much more

Will The Baltimore Sun have a new owner soon? Tribune Company says it has gotten offers, and it has hired investment bankers to evaluate those offers. We'll get reaction from inside the Sun newsroom … and we talk to former Baltimore County Executive Ted Venetoulis about putting together a local ownership group.

Then, Baltimore's Child magazine turns 30 this month. Tom Hall talks with publisher Joanne Giza about why – and how – she started it in her Charles Village home.

March 5, 2013

Could the Baltimore Sun end up back in the hands of a local owner?

Full interview with Ted Venetoulis

March 05, 2013

The new Netflix series “House of Cards,” starring Kevin Spacey, was the first television series to be released all at once, and all online.  The show has sparked a relatively new trend called “binge-watching,” meaning a viewer can devour an entire series in one sitting at the very moment it is released. Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik discusses the trend, and online streaming and DVRs as the new normal. 

Quentin Tarantino’s incendiary film on slavery has garnered two Oscar nominations, including best picture, and it has sparked a lot of controversy. What happens when Tarantino, the director of Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Basterds, takes on the horrible institution of slavery with a paean to the spaghetti western?