The Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918

Of such things as we have mentioned here, putting into the necessary news, attractively written, a proper seasoning of regional colour and atmosphere, humour and pathos, the _Su...

There is an unconventional club which has no home except on the one night each year when it holds a dinner in a New York hotel. Its members are men who have been writers on the...

The man whom Day met at the murder trial in White Plains was Richard Adams Locke, a reporter who was destined to kick up more dust than perhaps any other man of his profession....

For forty-seven years the city or news room of the _Sun_ was on the third floor of the brick building at the south corner of Nassau and Frankfort Streets, a five-story house bui...

Managing editors did not come into favour in American newspaper offices until the second half of the last century. As late as 1872 Frederic Hudson, in his “History of Journalism...

How far could the little _Sun_ hope to cast its beam in a stodgy if not naughty world? The circulation of all the dailies in New York at the time was less than thirty thousand....

Day and Dana each did a great thing for the _Sun_ and incidentally for journalism and for America. Day made humanity more intelligent by making newspapers popular. Dana made new...

_One of the Few Entirely Loyal Newspapers of New York.--Its Brief Ownership by a Religious Coterie.--It Returns to the Possession of M. S. Beach, Who Sells It to Dana._

The second owner of the _Sun_, Moses Yale Beach, was, like Ben Day, a Yankee. He was born in the old Connecticut town of Wallingford on January 7, 1800. He had a little educatio...

The usefulness of Richard Adams Locke as a _Sun_ reporter did not end with the moon hoax. Far from expressing regret that its employee had gulled half the earth, the _Sun_ conti...

No dull city, that New York of Ben Day’s time! Almost a dozen theatres of the first class were running. The Bowery, the first playhouse in America to have a stage lighted with g...

The English historian, Kinglake, wrote a description of John T. Delane, the most famous editor of the London _Times_, which Mr. Dana’s associate, Mr. Mitchell, liked to quote as...

The political scandals made good reading, but the _Sun_ was not content to feed its readers on investigations. It put a little bit of everything on their breakfast-plates--the M...

When Dana came into control of the _Sun_, the city of New York, which then included only Manhattan and the Bronx, had less than a million population, yet it supported, or was as...

Four years after he became the master of the _Sun_, and a quarter of a century before death took him from it, Dana found himself the Nestor of metropolitan journalism. Of the th...

The _Sun’s_ association with literature, particularly with fiction, has been more intimate than that of any other daily American newspaper. Ben Day had a taste for fiction, else...

In the early thirties of last century the only newspapers in the city of New York were six-cent journals whose reading-matter was adapted to the politics of men, and whose only...

The first ten years of Dana’s service on the _Sun_ were marked by the uprooting of many public evils. To use the mild phrasing of the historian John Fiske, “Villains sometimes s...

The Beaches, father and sons, owned the _Sun_ throughout the Mexican War, a period notable for the advance of newspaper enterprise; and Moses Yale Beach proved more than once th...

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