DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. – The South Florida Sun Sentinel was unable to produce a print edition Saturday because of a computer virus that also affected dozens of newspapers owned by Tribune Publishing.
Sun Sentinel said in a statement that the Saturday edition would be delivered along with the Sunday edition. In the meantime, the newspaper directed readers to its digital editions, which were unaffected by the virus.
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Jeff Light, the editor and publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune, said the virus started affecting the newspapers' systems on Thursday and became a critical problem late Friday. The Union-Tribune, a former Tribune Publishing newspaper, still uses the company's production software.
The Los Angeles Times, another former Tribune newspaper, referred to the virus as a "suspected malware attack."
The Sun Sentinel's production plant in Deerfield Beach also prints the New York Times and the Palm Beach Post, which were also affected.
A request for comment from Tribune Publishing was not immediately returned.