Format Tabloid Founded 1910 | Publisher John Fairfax Holdings Ceased publication 1988 | |
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Type Daily afternoon newspaper Sister newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald | ||
The Sun was an afternoon tabloid newspaper, first published under this name in 1910. It was acquired from Associated Newspapers by Fairfax Holdings in Sydney, Australia in 1953, as the afternoon companion to The Sydney Morning Herald. The former Sunday edition, the Sunday Sun was discontinued and merged with the Sunday Herald into the tabloid Sun-Herald at the same time.
Publication of The Sun ceased on 14 March 1988. Some of its content, and sponsorship of the Sydney City to Surf footrace, was continued in The Sun-Herald.
Digitisation
Some issues of the paper have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia.
References
The Sun (Sydney) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA