The Sun

New York Sun aka The Sun
Sept. 3, 1833 -July 2, 1916

-Newspaper that began the Penny Press revolution.
-A daily paper.
-Published by Benjamin Day from 1833 – 1835.
-Emphasized local events, police court reports, and sports in his four-page morning newspaper.
-Advertisements, notably help-wanted ads, were plentiful.
-By 1834, the Sun had the largest circulation in the United States. Its rising popularity was attributed to its readers’ passion for the Sun's sensational and sometimes fabricated stories and the paper’s exaggerated coverage of sundry scandals.
- Its success was also the result of the efforts of the city’s ubiquitous newsboys, who the innovative Day had hired to hawk the paper.
- The Sun added a Saturday edition in 1836.