The Baltimore News-American was a Baltimore, Maryland, broadsheet

Broadsheet

Broadsheet is the largest of the various newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages . The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a single sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of material, from ballads to political satire. The first broadsheet...

 newspaper with a continuous lineage (in various forms) of more than two hundred years of Baltimore newspapers. Its final edition was published on May 27, 1986.
The Baltimore News-American was formed by a merger of two papers, the Baltimore News-Post and the Baltimore American, in 1964. However, these papers themselves had a long history that preceded them, in particular the Baltimore American which could trace its lineage unbroken to at least 1796.