Type | Daily afternoon newspaper |
---|---|
Format | Tabloid |
Publisher | John Fairfax Holdings |
Founded | 1910 |
Ceased publication | 1988 |
Sister newspapers | The Sydney Morning Herald |
The Sun was an afternoon tabloid newspaper, first published in 1910, by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia as the afternoon companion to the The Sydney Morning Herald[1].
It was last published in March, 1988. Some of its content, along with the sponsorship of the Sydney City to Surf footrace, was continued in the new Sunday tabloid The Sun-Herald which replaced both the tabloid Sunday Sun and the broadsheet Sunday Herald[2].