New York Sun
The
New York Sun is a daily
newspaper published at
New York City which debuted
April 16,
2002. It is "the first general interest
broadsheet newspaper to be launched in New York in two generations".
Its owners include the former Canadian "media baron" Conrad Black, who renounced his Canadian citizenship when the Canadian government forbade him to accept a British peerage. According to an article in the Boston Globe, the paper's staff include many well-known political conservatives. Its president and editor in chief is Seth Lipsky and its managing editor Ira Stoll.
The original
New York Sun began publication
September 3,
1833 as a morning paper,and an evening edition began in
1887.The
Morning Sun merged into the
New York Herald in 1919,while the
Evening Sun continued until
January 4,
1950, when it merged with the
New York World-Telegram to form a new paper called the
World-Telegram and Sun which in
1966 became part of the New York World Journal Tribune which folded in
1967.
The original
Sun is best known for the editorial
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
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