The New York Sun

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The New York Sun

Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner ONE SL LLC
Publisher Ronald Weintraub
Editor Seth Lipsky
Founded 2002
Price USD .50
Headquarters 105 Chambers Street
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10007 USA
Circulation 150,000
Website: nysun.com

The New York Sun is a contemporary five-day daily newspaper published in New York City. When it debuted on April 16, 2002, it became "the first general interest broadsheet newspaper to be launched in New York in two generations."[1] Unlike the other major daily newspapers of New York, the Sun publishes only five editions per week (Monday through Friday, with the Friday paper labeled "weekend edition"). The newspaper's president and editor-in-chief is Seth Lipsky, former editor of The Forward; its managing editor (and a company vice president) is Ira Stoll.

The paper's motto, displayed on its masthead and website, is "It Shines For All." This motto is also the name of a blog that is part of the Sun's online presence along with its official website.

An earlier newspaper also named The New York Sun began publication in 1833 and merged with the New York World-Telegram in 1950. Other than their shared name, address, motto and masthead, there is no connection between the current Sun and its namesake.

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[edit] Features

The New York Sun is well known for its arts coverage, which includes such critics as Adam Kirsch on literature, Jay Nordlinger on classical music, Joel Lobenthal on dance, Lance Esplund on art, Otto Penzler on mystery writing, Carl Rollyson on biography, and Will Friedwald on jazz. The Sun has also received critical praise for its sports section, whose writers include Steven Goldman, Thomas Hauser, Sean Lahman, and Tim Marchman. Its crossword puzzle, edited by Peter Gordon, has been called one of the two best in the United States [2]. The Sun's sports columns are known for featuring "new-age" or statistics-based writers and analysis, including John Hollinger and various writers from Football Outsiders.

[edit] Editorial stance and relationship with The New York Times

The Sun was founded by a group of investors including Conrad Black with the intent of providing a non-tabloid alternative to The New York Times. It would put Manhattan and New York state news on its front page (in contrast to the Times' emphasis on national and international news over local issues). The Sun's managing editor Ira Stoll had been a longtime critic of this policy of the Times, as well as what he considered to be liberal bias in Times reporting, in his media watchdog blog smartertimes.com.[3] When smartertimes.com became defunct, its Web traffic was redirected to the Sun website.

Stoll has characterized the Sun's political orientation as "right-of-center,"[4] and an associate of Conrad Black predicted in 2002 that the paper would be "certainly neoconservative in its views."[5] Editor-in-chief Lipsky describes the agenda of the paper's prominent op-ed page as "limited government, individual liberty, constitutional fundamentals, equality under the law, economic growth ... standards in literature and culture, education."[6] The Sun's roster of columnists includes many prominent conservative thinkers, including William F. Buckley, Jr., Michael Barone, Daniel Pipes, and Mark Steyn.

The Sun is "known for its pugnacious coverage of Jewish-related issues";[7] in particular, it is "a strong proponent of Israel's right to defend itself."[8] It has published articles by pro-Israel reporter Aaron Klein.

The paper courted controversy in 2003 with an unsigned February 6 editorial arguing that protestors against the Iraq war should be prosecuted for treason.[9][10]

[edit] Circulation

The Audit Bureau of Circulations confirmed that in its first six months of publication the Sun had an average circulation of just under 18,000.[11] By 2005 the paper reported an estimated circulation of 45,000.[12] In December 2005 the Sun withdrew from the Audit Bureau of Circulations to join the Certified Audit of Circulations, whose other New York clients are the free papers The Village Voice and amNewYork, and began an aggressive campaign of free distribution in select neighborhoods.[13][14] As of 2007 the paper claims a readership of 150,000.[15]

The Sun's online edition has been accessible for free since August 2006.[16]

[edit] See also

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Haberman, Clyde (2004-04-17). Extra! Extra! Here Comes Another Sun. The New York Times. Retrieved on October 26, 2006.
  2. ^ Gaffney, Matt (2006-07-12). The Ultimate Crossword Smackdown. Who writes better puzzles, humans or computers?. Slate. Retrieved on October 26, 2006.
  3. ^ http://www.medialifemagazine.com/news2001/nov01/nov26/5_fri/news3friday.html
  4. ^ http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/clyne200407190902.asp
  5. ^ http://www.medialifemagazine.com/news2001/nov01/nov26/5_fri/news3friday.html
  6. ^ http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2002/04/25/nysun/index.html
  7. ^ http://www.forward.com/articles/hollinger-woes-casting-a-pall-over-future-of-neoco/
  8. ^ http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/clyne200407190902.asp
  9. ^ http://www.slate.com/id/2078455/
  10. ^ http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-evolokh020703.asp
  11. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04EFDB173CF930A15751C1A9649C8B63
  12. ^ http://www.medialifemagazine.com/News2005/may05/may09/4_thurs/news2thursday.html
  13. ^ http://www.nysun.com/article/24943?page_no=2
  14. ^ http://www.gawker.com/news/metro/groundhog-day-revelation-12-weeks-of-sun-152436.php
  15. ^ http://www.nysun.com/placeanad.php
  16. ^ http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/newspapers/new_york_sun_sees_light_makes_web_free_41612.asp

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