Gawker is reporting that the
New York Sun will fold on Monday. For now, the
Sun’s editor and its spokesperson will not comment.
“I don’t want to comment on that,” said Sun editor Seth Lipsky, when reached by phone and asked about the Gawker item by the New York Observer. When asked again if the paper’s closure is imminent he said, “No comment.”
The
Sun’s spokesperson, Michael Moi, said that there is no staff meeting scheduled today to discuss the paper’s future. In a letter to readers published on the front page of the September 4, 2008 edition, Lipsky announced that the paper would “cease publication at the end of September unless we succeed in our efforts to find additional financial backing.”
Launched in 2002, the Sun publishes five days a week and has a circulation of 150,000.