The Sun (New York City)

For the similarly-named 21st century broadsheet and news site, see The New York Sun.

The Sun
It Shines for All
The November 26, 1834, front page of The Sun
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatTabloid[1]
Owner(s)Moses Yale (1835)
Frank Munsey (1916)
EditorBenjamin Day (1833)
Founded1833; 191 years ago (1833)
Ceased publicationJanuary 4, 1950 (January 4, 1950)
RelaunchedThe New York Sun (2002)
HeadquartersSun Building, Park Row
150 Nassau Street
The Sun Building

The Sun was a New York newspaper published from 1833 until 1950. It was considered a serious paper,[2] like the city's two more successful broadsheets, The New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune. The Sun was the first successful penny daily newspaper in the United States, and was for a time, the most successful newspaper in America.[3][4]

The paper had a central focus on crime news, in which it was a pioneer, and was the first journal to hire a police reporter.[5][6] Its audience was primarily working class readers.

The Sun is well-known for publishing the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, as well as Francis Pharcellus Church's 1897 editorial containing the line "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".

It merged with the New York World-Telegram in 1950.

  1. ^ Rogers, Tony (March 17, 2017). "What's the Difference Between Broadsheet and Tabloid Newspapers?". ThoughtCo.
  2. ^ "Obituary of Charles Anderson Dana". The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. October 27, 1897. p. 4. ISSN 2379-7304. Retrieved July 14, 2020 – via National Endowment for the Humanities.
  3. ^ Wm. David Sloan (1979). "George W. Wisner: Michigan Editor and Politican [sic]". Journalism History. 6 (4): 113–116. doi:10.1080/00947679.1979.12066929. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  4. ^ The Sun (New York, N.Y.) 1833-1916, New York Sun / Extra sun / Issues for Apr. 13-Sept. 28, 1840
  5. ^ "New York Sun, American newspaper". Encyclopaedia Britannica. September 5, 2022.
  6. ^ "Benjamin Henry Day, American journalist and publisher". Encyclopaedia Britannica. September 5, 2022.