New York Sun

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 8:09am on Friday, November 20th, 2009

NY Sun Slowly Rising, Nieman Journalism Lab's Zachary Seward reported on November 18, 2009:

"Seth Lipsky is ever-so-slowly resurrecting The New York Sun as a stripped-down, online-only version of the newspaper he ran between 2002 and 2008. “We plan to build it up,” he told me yesterday, referring to nysun.com.

His most-recent addition to the site is a 20-week run of crosswords by the Sun’s highly acclaimed, former puzzle editor, Peter Gordon. It’s a batch of crosswords that were left unpublished when the Sun folded more than a year ago, and cruciverbalists will have to shell out $20 for the puzzles. “We’re going to look at whether there’s interest and go from there,” Lipsky said.

It’s notable that Lipsky — whose company, Two SL LLC, now owns the Sun’s name, archives, and website — has only added material that can pay for itself. He’s also published occasional opinion pieces by himself and others. “I want it to be self-sustaining,” he told me."

The full story:
http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/11/the-once-defunct-new-york-sun-is-slowly-rising/

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 11:14pm on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

The New York Sun may rise again, Politico writer Michael Calderone reported on April 28, 2009:

"The New York Sun, which closed up shop in September, has been publishing a bit lately online, and former editor Seth Lipsky told POLITICO today that there's a business plan for the site in the formative stages.

Lipsky said not to read too much into the initial items. Since "a business plan for the site is still in formation," he added, "these are just some very, very early bulbs of spring (or late winter).""

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 11:11pm on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

The New York Sun ceased publication on September 29, 2008. This is from the final editorial published by the newspaper:

"What a run. A newspaper founded by a company that was scheduled to be created on September 11, 2001, announces its last issue on September 29, 2008, the day of the largest one-day point drop in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It's easy to forget the boom years in between that were bracketed by the terrorist attacks and the financial crisis.

Beginning a new daily newspaper in New York was an optimistic project. And in many ways the optimism that animated this venture has been borne out. The Bush tax cuts did unleash tremendous economic growth. Iraqis are building a better country in freedom. The expansion of charter schools in New York has improved educational outcomes. The Republican Party can nominate a presidential candidate who stands for welcoming immigrants to America. The Bush administration's counterterrorism policies and those of the New York Police Department have prevented another attack from succeeding, a track record that the next president and the next mayor will be lucky to emulate notwithstanding complaints by the civil libertarians.

So while this is a sad day for the Sun's editors and employees and readers and backers, and a worrisome day and month for those many, many New Yorkers whose fortunes are tied to the financial markets, we end this project marveling at what a land of opportunity America is and what an open and dynamic city New York is. A few little-known editors and reporters managed to win backing for a project and nurse it to the point where — and we are very touched by this — even our competitors are saying it made a difference in the national and local debate and won the respect of the city's leading citizens."

The full story:
http://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-arc-of-the-sun/86865/