Baltimore Sun looks to non-profit status to stay afloat amid coronavirus threat

The Baltimore Sun has just won the Pulitzer prize for local reporting, despite years of job cuts and as the coronavirus pandemic appears set to ravage the nation’s journalism sector even more. But now as media experts warn the coronavirus is an “extinction-level event” for news organizations, a coalition of Baltimore-based philanthropists is hoping to turn the Sun into a non-profit, and avoid that fate. Behind the scenes a local group is hoping…