Seth Lipsky (born 1946) is the founder and editor of the New York Sun, an independent conservative daily in New York City that ceased its print edition on September 30, 2008. Lipsky counts Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Ariel Sharon, and Milton Friedman among his intellectual and ideological heroes.[1] He has a long history of working in the newspaper business, including "a nearly 20-year-long career" at the Wall Street Journal[2] that included Asia and Belgium.
Lipsky also founded and was editor[3] of The Forward, an English-language successor to a Yiddish-language longtime newspaper of the same name.[4]
He has also written several invited articles and guest opinions for The New York Times, and is the author of six books.[5][6]
- ^ The Wall Street Journal Online - Dispatch
- ^ "Seth Lipsky Looks Forward: New bio takes on Abraham Cahan, 'the first neoconservative'". The Observer. October 16, 2013.
- ^ Yoel Cohen (2012). God, Jews and the Media: Religion and Israel's Media. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-47503-7.
The Forward .. Yiddish Forverts, Seth Lipsky, its founding editor, was an unlikely candidate for the venture.
- ^ Der Forverts
- ^ Ellilot Resnick (February 11, 2011). "Veteran Newspaperman Seth Lipsky Reminisces On His Career". The Jewish Press. p. 10.
- ^ 2011 Interview had "five books" - this was before his 2015 The Floating Kilogram