Abstract
The passing of the New York Sun was the biggest journalistic event of the past quarter. After more than a century of varied and distinguished activities, the paper was sold out to the Scripps-Howard interests amid charges and countercharges that labor and management were to blame for its demise. In any case, it was generally agreed that its passing was probably the most striking development in New York journalism since the sale of the World, also to Scripps-Howard, almost two decades before … Meantime various new mechanical developments were watched with the hope that they might lessen the economic strain on metropolitan publishing; another newsprint mill opened in the South, and in New England a “phototypesetter” was the latest technological idea being studied by publishers.—W. F. S.
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