In a double-barreled, possibly related development, The Baltimore Sun replaced Editor Timothy Franklin on Monday with content development czar J. Montgomery Cook and acknowledged Tuesday that it would begin sharing content with its former rival, The Washington Post, in January.

“It’s unusual when you have two newspapers so close together and, in effect, competing to some extent,” Maryland-based newspaper analyst John Morton said of the inter-paper deal. “But it’s a way to try to expand both papers’ reports without spending any more money. And newspapers are under financial stress today.”