The New York Sun, a standard-size printed daily newspaper that closed in 2008 after being published for six years, will go back online, now online, its founding editor and new owner announced on Wednesday.
Seth Lipsky, editor-in-chief and former owner of the Sun, sold the publication for cash and shares to Dovid Efune, until recently the editor-in-chief of The Algemeiner, a New York-based Jewish-oriented online and print periodical. The announcement was made by Lipsky and Efune, who did not disclose the transaction amount.
The Sun will return to date with Lipsky still as editor-in-chief, while Efune will be publisher and president.
Interviewed by email, Efune praised the Sun for “practicing precisely the kind of journalism that is sorely lacking in today’s media environment: values-based, principled, and constitutionalist.” He also said that there are no plans to return to print editions.
The Sun was the brainchild of Lipsky, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and editorialist. In 1990 he created The Forward, an English-language version of the venerable eponymous newspaper published in Yiddish. He was editor-in-chief of the newspaper for ten years.
The Sun, which received the title of a New York newspaper published from 1833 to 1950, returned to newsstands under Seth Lipsky’s direction in 2002 and soon gained prominence for its politically conservative tone. Before abandoning its print editions in 2008, it had more than 100 full-time employees.
Since the Sun laid off its employees and stopped appearing on newsstands, the paper has maintained a modest online presence, publishing opinion pieces by Lipsky, its former business partner Ira Stoll, and freelance contributors. The Sun’s website also features transcripts of the monologues given by Larry Kudlow, former director of the National Economic Council under Donald Trump, on his Fox Business program.
For the return, Efune said he plans to expand the opinion section and hire journalists and editors to cover local and national politics, as well as culture and arts.
The Algemenener was born as a Yiddish publication in 1972 and came out in English in 2008, the year Efune became its executive editor. Efune said he gave up that position this year but is still on the newspaper’s editorial board.
The Sun is the second New York periodical to be republished this year, after The Village Voice.
Seth Lipsky said he has admired Dovid Efune’s work on The Algemeiner for years and is looking forward to working with him, creating journalism that reinforces “American values ​​of constitutionalism, equality before the law, and individual freedom.”
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