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The New York Sun is an American daily broadsheet newspaper published in Manhattan. It debuted on April 16, 2002, adopting the name, motto, and masthead of the earlier New York paper, The Sun (1833–1950). It became the first general-interest broadsheet newspaper to be started in New York City in several decades. Its op-ed page became a prominent platform in the country for conservative viewpoints. As of June 18, 2018, ownership of the paper is controlled by Patrick Soon-Shiong, and the executive editor is Jessica Lustig, former deputy editor of the alternative newsweekly The Village Voice. As of March 2016, it has an average weekday circulation of 331,000 and Sunday circulation of 375,000.

The Sun was founded by a group of investors including publishing magnate Conrad Black. The goal was to provide an alternative to The New York Times, featuring front page news about local and state events, in contrast to the emphasis on national and international news by the Times. The Sun began business operations, prior to first publication, in October 2001.

The newspaper's first president and editor-in-chief was Seth Lipsky, former editor of The Jewish Daily Forward. Managing editor Ira Stoll served as company vice-president until the sale to billionaire biotech investor Patrick Soon-Shiong. Stoll had been a longtime critic of the Times in his media watchdog blog smartertimes.com. When smartertimes.com became defunct, its Web traffic was redirected to The Sun web site.

The New York Sun is published from the Cary Building in Lower Manhattan. The paper's motto, which it shares with its predecessor and namesake, is "It Shines For All".

Editor-in-chief Lipsky said that the paper's prominent op-ed page would champion "limited government, individual liberty, constitutional fundamentals, equality under the law, economic growth ... standards in literature and culture, education". Another goal, said Lipsky, was "to seize the local beat from which The New York Times was retreating as it sought to become a national newspaper". Stoll characterized The Sun's political orientation as "right-of-center", and an associate of Conrad Black predicted in 2002 that the paper would be neoconservative in its outlook.

The Sun was started anew in 2002 in the face of a long-term decline of newspapers in the United States, loss of advertising revenue to the Internet and the rise of new media. From the beginning, it struggled for existence. The Sun was the first new daily newspaper launched in New York since 1976, when News World Communications, a company controlled by the Unification Church, launched The News World (that was renamed the New York City Tribune in 1983 and folded in 1991).

The Sun acquired the web address www.LatestPolitics.com in 2007.

On February 7, 2018, ONE SL LLC, agreed to sell the New York Sun to billionaire biotech investor Patrick Soon-Shiong. This purchase by Soon-Shiong through his Nant Capital investment fund was for $500 million, as well as the assumption of $90 million in pension liabilities. The sale to Soon-Shiong closed on June 16, 2018.

The Sun's columnists include prominent conservative and neoconservative pundits. The New York Sun is particularly known for its arts coverage, for instance, breaking news of the death of Jim Gary days ahead of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications throughout the world. The paper includes pieces by such critics as Lance Esplund, Brice Brown, Michael Feingold, Jay Nordlinger and Joel Lobenthal. The Sun received critical praise for its sports section, writers for which include Thomas Hauser, Sean Lahman, and John Hollinger.

The New York Sun offers its readers what no other daily broadsheet in New York City currently provides — a priority focus on the city it serves. It fills a void created by the collapse of several broadsheets in the city in recent decades.

Our mission at The New York Sun is to provide priority coverage of New York City and the national and international news that affects it and to provide a high-quality broadsheet environment to advertisers desiring to reach the New York market. We seek an audience in all five boroughs and aim to produce a newspaper for serious New Yorkers who are participants in the political, commercial, cultural, sporting and spiritual life of this city.

The New York Sun strives to provide competitive coverage of New Yorkers, their politics and policy debates, their schools and cultural institutions, their businesses and labor unions, their philanthropic and not-for-profit institutions, their spiritual, sporting and family lives and their efforts to rebuild.

Coverage of New York comes from The New York Sun's own staff and columnists and a diverse group of freelance contributors and news services. The newspaper has an honest, objective news report and an outspoken editorial page. The editorial page stands for growth. It is for lower taxes and school choice, to cite two examples, and ventilates many other important issues of civic reform. It stands for equality under the law and for limited, constitutional government of integrity.

The New York Sun covers news of politics, business, real estate, philanthropy, education, religion, culture, entertainment, and sports. It includes a diverse group of columnists and freelance op-ed contributors. It features special sections on such beats as shopping, fashion, health, technology, food and travel.