ENTERTAINMENT & NEWS MEDIA

20% of Baltimore Sun’s Editorial Staff to Leave: To nearly everyone’s surprise, 100 of the newspaper’s 500 newsroom staffers signed up for a buyout by Tuesday’s 5 p.m. deadline. The number has more than doubled since Friday, when virtually all reporters and editors on the paper were told whether they would keep their assignments or would be transferred to other jobs. The Sun reported that a total of 350 employees, more than a quarter of the paper’s white-collar staff, have accepted buyout offers. The Sun is owned by Times Mirror Co., which also owns the Los Angeles Times. The offer, which amounted to a year’s pay and a year’s health insurance for most employees, was extended to 1,200 staffers.