The Baltimore Sun is publishing a special edition to be distributed to New Orleans-area hotels this weekend. Sun spokesperson Renee Mutchnik told Poynter the edition will comprise the front and sports pages of the daily (Sunday's will include a special game day section). The paper is printing 3,000 copies of the paper Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Houma, La.

Plus: "When we win, not if, we will also have some on Monday," Mutchnik said. That edition will have 1,000 extra copies; Mutchnik said the Tribune-owned paper will be available to hotel guests even if they are not Ravens fans. (more...)

Bay Citizen
Chronicle parent Hearst has told employees that it intends to roll out the paywall along with a digital subscription plan for the newspaper's new iPad app. Staffers tell Gerry Shih the plan could be rolled out by the end of this month, and that over half of the stories now available for free on sfgate.com could be cordoned off by the new paywall.