Seth Lipsky

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Earlier this month, both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal raised their cover prices up from a buck—to $1.25 and $1.50, respectively. Now, The New York Sun is getting in on the action. On Aug. 6—the same day the Times gets 1.5 inches narrower—the Sun will double their newsstand price to $1 an issue, according to an internal memo.
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Rudy Giuliani has hired Daniel Freedman, a conservative editorial writer from The New York Sun.

Here's a note from the paper's editor.

From: Seth Lipsky

Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:05:23 AM

To: ~Business Staff; ~Editorial Staff; ~NY Sun Office Staff

Subject: welcome back to ryan sager

I'm delighted to report that Ryan Sager has returned to the Sun as editor of the online edition. He had been with the Sun as an editorial writer in the startup period and then went to the New York Post and wrote a book about politics, "The Elephant in the Room." In his new job, he will edit the online edition, edit and help write a blog on politics, and write editorials. He's a brilliant journalist and we're all happy to have him back. He replaces Dan Freedman, who is joining the Giuliani campaign. Dan did a terrific job here. I'm sorry to see him go. I do note that Giuliani's rise in the polls began about the time word spread that Freedman was signing on. Good luck to all of them.

This isn't the first acquisition Giuliani has made from the Sun. Earlier, he hired John Avlon, who was a columnist and deputy editor at the paper.

-- Azi Paybarah

Rupert Murdoch, beware: Sir Harold Evans, forced out by Murdoch as editor of the Times of London 23 years ago, is back in the daily newspapering game--sitting in this week to edit The New York Sun.

Evans signed on as a consulting editor Dec. 5 to lend his editorial acumen while Sun editor-in-chief Seth Lipsky is away on vacation.

"Seth's an old friend of mine," Evans said by phone. "He thought a fresh eye might see things around here."

As of this evening, Evans was still adjusting to his new assignment. "I've not even found the way to the men's room," he said.

In his two days at the three-year-old daily, Evans has been reading copy and making front-page recommendations. He suggested a story on rent-controlled tenants buying second homes in Florida for Monday's front page, and a story on fake IDs for Tuesday's.

Evans said he's a loyal Sun customer. "I read it every day," he said. "The thing is, some people find the Sun's opinions strong... My attitude is that a newspaper shouldn't have opinions I would write myself. I want to read about different ideas."

Lipsky was proud of his latest hire. "If he were a violinist, we'd talk about him [in] the hushed tones with which other violinists speak of Zino Francescotti," he wrote in an e-mail.

But Evans played down his editing duties, and said he won't be staying on at the Sun once the consultancy is up on Friday.

"It's only a week. It won't make any noticeable impact," he said.

Soon, though Evans rang off.  read more »

"I gotta go. I have to go read copy."

--Gabriel Sherman

Mike also stopped over at the Hyatt to speak at the Metropolitan College of New York's 41st Anniversary Gala, where he had some kind words for the evening's honoree, New York Sun editor Seth Lipsky.

"Seth and I don't always agree on everything," said the Mayor about Mr. Lipsky, who was beaming in his black bowtie. "He's a really smart guy and he knows a lot about this city. You picked wisely to have him as an honoree."  read more »

No doubt Mike thought Lipsky had picked wisely by awarding the mayor his paper's endorsement.

For much of the summer, Freddy's relative absence from the trail was said to indicate that he had retreated into a "rose-garden strategy."

Not so! We learn from today's New York Sun endorsement (of Mike) that Ferrer was spending the time breaking bread with my old boss, Sun editor Seth Lipsky.

"We have no personal quarrel with Mr. Ferrer, with whom we've had several meals in the past year or so," the Sun writes. "He's a wonderful person, smart and earnest. But we differ with Mr. Ferrer on the issues...."  read more »

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