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| Type | Daily afternoon newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Publisher | John Fairfax Holdings |
| Founded | 1910 |
| Ceased publication | 1988 |
| Sister newspapers | The Sydney Morning Herald |
The Sun was an Australian afternoontabloid newspaper, first published in Sydney under that name in 1910.[1]
The Sunday Sun was first published on 5 April 1903.
In 1910Hugh Denison foundedSun Newspaper Ltd (laterSun Newspapers Ltd) and took over publication of the old and ailingAustralian Star and its sisterSunday Sun, appointingMonty Grover as editor-in-chief.[2] TheStar becameThe Sun, and theSunday Sun becameThe Sun: Sunday edition on 11 December 1910.[3] According to the claim below themasthead of that issue, it had a "circulation larger than that of any other Sunday paper in Australia".[4]
Denison sold the business in 1925. In November 1929Associated Newspapers Ltd was formed by merging Sun Newspapers Ltd and S. Bennett Ltd, publishers ofThe Evening News.[5] Sun Newspapers Ltd and S. Bennett Ltd were de-listed on the Stock Exchange and replaced with Associated Newspapers Ltd.[6] Associated Newspapers Ltd then took overSmith's Weekly and its subsidiaries theDaily Guardian andSunday Guardian.
In 1953,The Sun was acquired fromAssociated Newspapers byFairfax Holdings inSydney, Australia, as the afternoon companion toThe Sydney Morning Herald. At the same time, the former Sunday edition, theSunday Sun, was discontinued and merged with theSunday Herald into the tabloidSun-Herald.[7][8]
Publication ofThe Sun ceased on 14 March 1988.[9] Some of its content, and sponsorship of the SydneyCity to Surf footrace, was continued inThe Sun-Herald.
Some issues of the paper have been digitised as part of theAustralian Newspapers Digitisation Program of theNational Library of Australia.[10][11]