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In praise of the now-defunct New York Sun

In praise of the now-defunct New York Sun: The New York Sun has announced that it will cease publication effective today. As someone who is a fan of newspapers, I am always saddened when a publication that I have enjoyed goes out of business.

Fans of high-quality law-related journalism should be especially glum, as the newspaper featured two top-notch reporters who regularly covered legal issues: Josh Gerstein and Joseph Goldstein. Both Josh and Joe reached out to me regularly -- and by extension reached out to you the readers of this blog regularly -- by making sure that I was aware of their latest articles, often only moments after they appeared online. And on other occasions, they would email just to let me know of a development that they knew I'd be interested in reporting on here, even if it was not something that they themselves had already written about.

At a time when the NYSun's online content often appeared behind a subscription wall, Josh Gerstein would regularly provide me with links to articles appearing in his newspaper that would allow the readers of this blog to access those articles free of charge. And it was Josh who first reported on the public remarks of a certain Second Circuit judge at a conference in June 2004 in an article that began, "A prominent federal judge has told a conference of liberal lawyers that President Bush's rise to power was similar to the accession of dictators such as Mussolini and Hitler." This blog's earliest links to that article (which is itself no longer available online) appeared here and here.

In any event, I wish Josh, Joe, and all of this blog's other friends at The New York Sun all the best going forward.

In today's final issue of that newspaper, Josh Gerstein reports that "Feingold Bill Would Limit Searches of Travelers' Laptops."

And the newspaper also contains an article headlined "Atlantic Yard Project Suffers a Setback."

Full post as published by How Appealing on September 30, 2008 (boomark / email).