Seth Lipsky


Seth Lipsky is the founder and editor of the New York Sun, an independent conservative daily in New York City that ceased its print edition on September 30, 2008. Lipsky counts Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Ariel Sharon, and Milton Friedman among his intellectual and ideological heroes. He has a long history of working in the newspaper business, including "a nearly 20-year-long career" at the Wall Street Journal that included Asia and Belgium.
Lispsky also founded and was editor of The Forward, an English-language successor to a Yiddish-language longtime newspaper of the same name.
He has also written several invited articles and guest opinions for The New York Times, and is the author of six books.

Early life

Born 1946 in Brooklyn, from age one Lipsky was "raised in a secular Jewish family in Great Barrington, Mass" and graduated from Harvard University. in 1968.

The Jewish Daily Forward

Lipsky revived, under the name The Jewish Daily Forward what previously was a widely read Yiddish-language
daily newspaper, but in English.

The New York Sun

In 2002 he founded and began serving as editor of The New York Sun. Although the paper only lasted six years, and gave away more copies than it sold, but a spokesperson at the United Nations admitted, after a criticism by The Sun, that the paper "does punch way above its circulation number, on occasion." Lipsky's
problems were compounded in that he began and operated at a time when the newspaper industry's situation was described as "pretty grim."
Among its noteworthy "social life" features were the paper's Along the Wine Trail wine column and crossword puzzle.
When it was time to give his 110 full-time employees the bad news, he made it "'in an orderly way'.. not filing for bankruptcy.. pay employees through November.. health insurance.. through Dec. 31."

Books

Among the books he authored are:
A 2011 interview's overview listed second "teaching at Columbia University's School of Journalism."

Personal

Lipsky served in the U.S. Armed Forces and wrote for Stars and Stripes while in Vietnam. He is married to Amity Shlaes, a columnist and author.