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" (source: The Sun).
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 editor in chief is Emmett Tyrrell.
The original
New York Sun was published from
September 3,
1833 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 folded in
1967. The original
Sun is best known for the editorial
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
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