The New York Sun published its final edition today. The six-year-old, conservative-minded newspaper had been unsuccessful in finding new financial backers. On the newspaper’s website, Editor Seth Lipsky wrote:

I tend to be an optimist and held out hope for a favorable outcome as late as mid-afternoon today. But among other problems that we faced was the fact that this month, not to mention this week, has been one of the worst in a century in which to be trying to raise capital, and in the end we were out not only of money but time.