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The Sun was a New York newspaper that was published from 1833 until 1950. It The Sun
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Editor Benjamin Day (1833)
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In New York, The Sun began publication September 3, 1833, as a morning Founded September 3, 1833
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newspaper edited by Benjamin Day with the slogan "It Shines for All".[1] This was Ceased publication January 4, 1950
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The Sun was groundbreaking in its content, being the first newspaper to report
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newspaper an integral part of the community and the lives of the readers. Prior to this, all stories in newspapers were about
politics or reviews of books or the theater. Day was the first to hire reporters to go out and collect stories. Prior to this,
In other projects newspapers relied on readers sending in items, and on making unauthorized copies of stories from other newspapers. His
Wikimedia Commons focus on crime is the beginning of "the craft of reporting and storytelling". If not the inventor, The Sun was nonetheless the
Wikisource newspaper which demonstrated conclusively that a newspaper could be supported by advertisements and not subscription
fees, and could be sold on the street instead of delivered to each subscriber. In addition, The Sun was aimed not at the elite
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but at the common masses of working people. Day and The Sun recognized that the masses were fast becoming literate, and

demonstrated that a profit could be made selling to them. Prior to The Sun, printers produced the newspapers, often at a
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Deutsch loss, making their living selling printing services.[2]
Espaol An evening edition was introduced in 1887. Frank Munsey bought both editions in 1916 and merged the Evening Sun with his
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New York Press. The morning edition of The Sun was merged for a time with Munsey's New York Herald as The Sun and New
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York Herald, but in 1920 Munsey separated them again, killed The Evening Sun, and moved The Sun to an evening format.[1]

Norsk This paper continued until January 4, 1950, when it merged with the New York World-Telegram to form a new paper called
Romn the New York World-Telegram and Sun in 1966, this paper became part of the New York World Journal Tribune, which
folded the following year.
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The Sun first became famous for its central role in the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, a fabricated story of life and civilization on
the moon which the paper falsely attributed to British astronomer John Herschel and never retracted.[3] On April 13, 1844,
The Sun published as factual a story by Edgar Allan Poe now known as "The Balloon-Hoax", retracted two days after
publication. The story told of an imagined Atlantic crossing by hot-air balloon.[4]

Today, the paper is best known for the 1897 editorial "Is There a Santa Claus?" (commonly referred to as "Yes, Virginia,
There Is a Santa Claus"), written by Francis Pharcellus Church.[5]

John B. Bogart, city editor of The Sun between 1873 and 1890, made what is perhaps the most frequently quoted definition of
the journalistic endeavor: "When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog,
that is news."[6] (The quotation is frequently attributed to Charles Dana, Sun editor and part-owner between 1868 and 1897.)

In 1926, the Sun published a review by John Grierson of Robert Flaherty's film Moana, in which Grierson said the film had
"documentary value." This is considered the origin of the term "documentary film"[7]

In 194748, the Sun featured a groundbreaking series of articles by Malcolm Johnson, "Crime on the Waterfront," that won
the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 1949. The series served as the basis for the 1954 movie On the Waterfront.
The Sun's first female reporter was Emily Verdery Bettey, hired in 1868. Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd was hired as a reporter and
fashion editor in the 1880s she was one of the first women to become a professional editor, and perhaps the first full-time
fashion editor in American newspaper history.

Legacy [ edit ]

The 1952 film Deadline U.S.A. is a story about the death of a New York newspaper called The Day, loosely based upon the
old New York Sun, which closed in 1950. The original Sun newspaper was edited by Benjamin Day, making the film's
newspaper name a play on words (not to be confused with the real-life New London, Connecticut newspaper of the same
name).

The masthead of the original Sun is visible in a montage of newspaper clippings in a scene of the 1972 film The Godfather.
The newspaper's offices were a converted department store at 280 Broadway, between Chambers and Reade streets in
lower Manhattan, now known as "The Sun Building" and famous for the clocks that bear the newspaper's masthead and
motto. They were recognized as a New York City landmark in 1986.

In 2002, a new broadsheet was launched, styled The New York Sun, and bearing the old newspaper's masthead and motto. It
was intended as a "conservative alternative" and local-news focused alternative to the more liberal/progressive "The New
York Times" and other New York newspapers. It was published by Ronald Weintraub and edited by Seth Lipsky, and ceased
publication on September 30, 2008.

Notable journalists of the Sun [ edit ]

John A. Arneaux, reporter in 1884

Moses Yale Beach, an early owner of The Sun
Paul Dana (journalist), editor, 18801897
W.C. Heinz, war correspondent, sportswriter 1937-1950
Bruno Lessing, reporter, 18881894
John Swinton (journalist), chief editorialist, 18751883 and 18921897

See also [ edit ]

List of defunct American periodicals

References [ edit ]

1. ^ a b "Sun's Centary" . Time. September 11, 1933. Retrieved 2008-07-15.

2. ^ Spencer, David R. Overholser, Geneva (January 23, 2007). The Yellow Journalism: The Press and America's Emergence as a
World Power . Medill Vision of the American Press. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. pp. 2228. ISBN 978-
0810123311.
3. ^ Washam, Erik, "Cosmic Errors: Martians Build Canals!" , Smithsonian magazine, December 2010.
4. ^ Quinn, Arthur Hobson. Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-
8018-5730-9. p. 410
5. ^ Campbell, W. Joseph. 110 Years Ago in News History: Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus . American University. Retrieved
December 19, 2007.
6. ^ Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition, ed. Justin Kaplan (Boston, London, and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1992), p. 554.
7. ^ Barsam, Richard (1992). Non-Fiction Film: A Critical History. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0253207067.

Further reading [ edit ]

Lancaster, Paul. Gentleman of the Press: The Life and Times of an Early Reporter, Julian Ralph of the Sun. Syracuse
University Press 1992.
O'Brien, Frank Michael. The Story of The Sun: New York, 1833-1918 (1918)
Steele, Janet E. The Sun Shines for All: Journalism and Ideology in the Life of Charles A. Dana (Syracuse University
Press, 1993)
Stone, Candace. Dana and the Sun (Dodd, Mead, 1938)
Tucher, Andie, Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America's First Mass Medium'. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

External links [ edit ]

Old Fulton New York Post Cards - Online Archive 18431945 Wikimedia Commons has
O'Brien, Frank M. The Story of The Sun (1918) (full text online) media related to The Sun
(New York City).
The Sun 1833-1916 at Chronicling America

Categories: Defunct newspapers of New York City Publications established in 1833 Publications disestablished in 1950
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