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The NY Sun has set for good
9.30.08
The New York Sun, one of the youngest yet greatest American newspapers, published its final issue today. As much as it's a dark day for the financial system, it's equally dark for journalism (and the two, in this case, may be connected, as the financial crisis may have put a crimp on investment which might have kept the Sun afloat).
The paper was a unique, independent, scrappy voice on the New York and national scene. Led by Great Barrington, Mass., native Seth Lipsky -- a former intern at the Berkshire Eagle -- the paper was read in the halls of power, where it was influential far beyond its circulation size, as well as by those on the subway looking for hard-hitting, intelligent reporting that didn't condescend to its readers and also didn't shy away from conventional bromides.
Surely this isn't the last we'll hear from Seth Lipsky and his sidekick, editor Ira Stoll, who did a terrific job with the national weekly Jewish newspaper, The Forward, before being edged out of that paper due to internal politics (and the neo-Stalinist thought-police).
In fact, not the worst thing that could happen is that a contingent of local angel investors might make an offer to Dean Singleton of the Denver Post to wrestle the Berkshire Eagle and its affiliated papers away from his national chain and put it in the hands of a locally based group of investors who would install Lipsky, Stoll, and other highly talented reporters at the paper -- including Amanda Gordon, who writes for Berkshire Living magazine on a regular basis -- bringing Lipsky back home where he would undoubtedly revitalize a newspaper that once was the pride of American small cities and has fallen to the status of an afterthought.
In any case, read more for what Lipsky had to say to his staff as a farewell on the occasion of the publication of the Sun's final issue.
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