''The Sun'' was an Australian afternoon
tabloid newspaper, first published under that name in 1910.
History
''The Sunday Sun'' was first published on 5 April 1903.
In 1910
Hugh Denison
Sir Hugh Robert Denison, originally Hugh Robert Dixson (11 November 1865 – 25 November 1940) was a businessman, parliamentarian and philanthropist in South Australia and later New South Wales. He was a member of the South Australian House ...
founded Sun Newspaper Ltd and took over publication of the old and ailing and ''Australian Star'' and its sister ''Sunday Sun'', appointing
Monty Grover as editor-in-chief. The ''Star'' became ''The Sun'', and the ''Sunday Sun'' became ''The Sun: Sunday edition'' on 11 December 1910. According to its claim, below the
masthead of that issue, it had a "circulation larger than that of any other Sunday paper in Australia".
Denison sold the business in 1925.
In 1953, The Sun was acquired from
Associated Newspapers
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by
Fairfax Holdings in
Sydney, Australia
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, as the afternoon companion to ''
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper ...
''. At the same time, the former Sunday edition, the ''Sunday Sun'', was discontinued and merged with the ''Sunday Herald'' into the tabloid ''
Sun-Herald''.
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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
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of the National Library of Australia
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.
See also
* GIO Building
* List of newspapers in Australia
This is a list of newspapers in Australia. For other older newspapers, see list of defunct newspapers of Australia.
National
In 1950, the number of national daily newspapers in Australia was 54 and it increased to 65 in 1965.
Daily newspape ...
* List of newspapers in New South Wales
This is a list of newspapers in New South Wales in Australia.
List of newspapers in New South Wales (A)
List of newspapers in New South Wales (B)
List of newspapers in New South Wales (C)
List of newspapers in New South Wales (D)
Li ...
References
External links
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''The Sunday Sun'' (Sydney, NSW : 1903 - 1910)
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Trove
''The Sun : Sunday Edition'' (Sydney, NSW : 1910)
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Trove
Defunct daily newspapers
Defunct newspapers published in Sydney
Publications established in 1910
Daily newspapers published in Australia
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