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What's lost when Baltimore arts and culture coverage gets cut?

By Ashley Sterner,
Melissa Gerr
Published November 4, 2024 at 10:36 AM EST
Teri Henderson (L) is Arts and Culture Editor at Baltimore Beat, a Black led news source both in print and online. Cara Ober (R) is Executive director of Bmore Art, an online and print journal of local arts and culture. They discuss the impacts of the end of features coverage recently announced by the Baltimore Sun Guild. Photos: Henderson/Micah E. Wood, Ober/E. Brady Robinson
Teri Henderson (L) is Arts and Culture Editor at Baltimore Beat, a Black led news source both in print and online. Cara Ober (R) is Executive director of Bmore Art, an online and print journal of local arts and culture. They discuss the impacts of the end of features coverage recently announced by the Baltimore Sun Guild. Photos: Henderson/Micah E. Wood, Ober/E. Brady Robinson

The Baltimore Sun has cut its features coverage, which means the death of human interest stories and reporting on things like visual arts, music, theater, and dining.

The slashing of this type of coverage in the city’s paper of record is a huge loss to Baltimore’s arts and culture community -- or is it? We ask Teri Henderson, Arts and Culture Editor at Baltimore Beat, and Cara Ober, Executive director of Bmore Art, to weigh in.

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Ashley Sterner
WYPR's Morning Edition news anchor Ashley Sterner serves up the latest Maryland news and weather every weekday morning, delightfully interspersed with the occasional snarky comment.
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Melissa Gerr
Melissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'
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