Sun veep says alt-weekly’s story about new tabloid is wrong

Romenesko Letters
Baltimore’s City Paper reports the Sun is offering less than $30,000 to b writers. That’s wrong, says Sun veep Timothy J. Thomas. “Individual salary offers are based on training, talent, experience and market forces,” he writes. The weekly also claims the $30,000 salary is “about half of what unionized Sun reporters earn.” Thomas writes: “According to the Guild contract, the starting annual salary for a reporter is $27,612. To equate a starting salary of a new reporter at b with the average salary of veteran Sun reporters with decades of experience is extremely misleading.”