Baltimore Examiner
Michael Olesker left the Baltimore Sun last January after using passages from other papers without attribution. Examiner CEO
Michael Phelps writes: "All of us who are honest with ourselves have found ourselves benched in one way or another over the years (or will). ... Great columnists like
Mike Royko and
Jimmy Breslin and
Mike Barnicle found reasons to change the newspaper team for which they pursued their craft over the course of their careers. So
also has Michael Olesker, Baltimorean, whom I'm pleased to welcome in this public way to The Examiner."
