The Takeaway: 'New York Sun' Goes Down

NYS: The New York Sun devoted about a quarter of the editorial space in its final issue to memorializing itself .The coverage includes excerpts from founder and editor Seth Lipsky's remarks to his staff, a long retrospective of the paper's short history, three stories about local politicians' support for the paper, and an editorial that concludes, "We can only hope that some day in the future our own record will inspire some new generation of newspapermen and women with dreams to pick up the flag that today we put down."

WSJ: The Journal's editorial page also offered a tribute to the Sun: "In its six-and-a-half year run, the New York Sun achieved the status any newspaper seeks: It was read in precincts high and low, and it was read every day.... For sheer liveliness, it was hard to beat."

NYP: The Sun's closure will leave 110 people jobless, but the paper's doing what it can to cushion the blow: Staffers will continue to be paid through Nov. 31 and have health insurance through the end of the year.

NYT: One thing Sun employees won't miss is their office, situated in "a 19th-century building with 19th-century conveniences.... [T]he paper's computers and telephones were problem-prone, the fire alarms sometimes sounded for no reason, the elevator stalled regularly and the bathroom plumbing backed up."

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