<P> The Sun's first female reporter was Emily Verdery Bettey, hired in 1868 . Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd was hired as a reporter and fashion editor in the 1880s; she was one of the first women to become a professional editor, and perhaps the first full - time fashion editor in American newspaper history . </P> <P> The 1952 film Deadline--U.S.A. is a story about the death of a New York newspaper called The Day, loosely based upon the old New York Sun, which closed in 1950 . The original Sun newspaper was edited by Benjamin Day, making the film's newspaper name a play on words (not to be confused with the real - life New London, Connecticut newspaper of the same name). </P> <P> The masthead of the original Sun is visible in a montage of newspaper clippings in a scene of the 1972 film The Godfather . The newspaper's offices were a converted department store at 280 Broadway, between Chambers and Reade streets in lower Manhattan, now known as "The Sun Building" and famous for the clocks that bear the newspaper's masthead and motto . They were recognized as a New York City landmark in 1986 . </P> <P> In 2002, a new broadsheet was launched, styled The New York Sun, and bearing the old newspaper's masthead and motto . It was intended as a "conservative alternative" and local - news focused alternative to the more liberal / progressive "The New York Times" and other New York newspapers . It was published by Ronald Weintraub and edited by Seth Lipsky, and ceased publication on September 30, 2008 . </P>

The new york sun is remembered because it was the first newspaper edited for the mass audience