THE NEW YORK SUN TO BE DISTRIBUTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES
COMPANY AND THE TRIBUNE COMPANY
C&S, DSA Direct, Newsday, Mitchell's To Share
In Single Copy, Home Delivery Distribution
NEW YORK, NY -- April 3, 2002 -- The New York Sun, the new daily broadsheet that will begin publication in New York City on Tuesday, April 16th, has secured distribution with The New York Times Company and the Tribune Company, owners of The New York Times and Newsday respectively, for single copy and home delivery.
According to William Kummel, chief operating officer of The New York Sun, City & Suburban (a subsidiary of The New York Times Company) and Newsday and DSA Direct (both owned by the Tribune Company), will share in the single copy delivery of The New York Sun at more than 4,000 newsstands in all five boroughs of New York City, as well as Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties in New York, Fairfield County in Connecticut, and Hudson, Passaic, Bergen and Morris counties in New Jersey.
Kummel added that Newsday's distribution services and Mitchell's Newspaper Delivery Service, which handles delivery for The New York Times, Daily News, New York Post, The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, will share in the home and office delivery for The New York Sun.
"We're pleased to be working with the distribution services of The New York Times Company and the Tribune Company," said Kummel. "They have decades of experience delivering daily papers in the New York market, and they're very good at it."
A five-days-a-week publication, available on newsstands for 50 cents per copy and by home and office delivery for $2.50 per week, the Sun is estimated to be between 12 and 18 pages in length, with nine pages of editorial copy, including full-color front and back pages. Its initial distribution is 60,000.
Today's announcement comes on the heels of the Sun's introduction of its key editorial hires, including veterans of The New York Times, Forbes, The Dallas Morning News, The Palm Beach Post, the Staten Island Advance, New York magazine and the Forward, among others.
The New York Sun is owned by One SL LLC, which was founded in September 2001 by Seth Lipsky, the president and editor of The Sun, Ira Stoll, its vice president and managing editor, and a group of distinguished businessmen, many prominent in civic life in New York. With an honest, objective news report and an outspoken editorial page, The Sun will strive to provide competitive coverage of New Yorkers, their politics and policy debates, their schools and cultural institutions, their businesses and labor unions, their philanthropic and not-for-profit institutions, their spiritual, sporting and family lives, and their efforts to rebuild.
MEDIA CONTACTS - FOR PRESS COVERAGE OF THE SUN ONLY:
Jane Glastein
Goodman Media
International, Inc.
212.576.2700 ext. 237
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