The New York Sun Goes to the Beach

The New York Sun did what many New Yorkers do to get some sun in the winter; it headed to Miami. Amid the glitz and glamor of Art Basel, Sun readers, supporters, and staffers gathered to celebrate the paper’s first nine months since relaunching and to look ahead to its next chapter. ‘Art Basel with the Sun’ transpired at the studio of artist Ron Agam, a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor and a maestro of the camera and canvas. Hosting was the Sun’s publisher, Dovid Efune, with the mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, in attendance.Speaking in front of a bright yellow canvas, Mr. Efune thanked the studio director, Adriana Abel, and Mr. Agam for the “color the artist brings to the world” before launching into an articulation of the “frustrations we face in our democracy,” chief among them being plummeting trust in the press. Rather than the “backstop of democracy,” he noted, it has become seen as a “threat.”Artist Ron Agam, the studio director, Adriana Abel, and the mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez. The New York Sun/via Daniel Irias The Sun is back at the “fore of the national political conversation,” Mr. Efune said, and is an “all-American paper” that aims to “reclaim American journalism” via a principled approach and an “advanced digital strategy” that follows on a history that stretches back almost two centuries. “Our base is in New York,” Mr. Efune noted, but our “heart is in Florida.” One of the Sunshine State’s preeminent politicians, Mr. Suarez, began by noting that his first question was, “How do I subscribe?” He described his own family’s exile from Cuba and journey to America, a land of possibility. Mr. Suarez noted democracy’s fragility, and described the fight for that form of government as a “worthy one.” He spoke of the “fundamentally American” identity of the Sun, and of his city, poised at an “inflection point,” alert to the digital age, to web3 and bitcoin, as it pivots toward the future.The Sun’s next event — “The Great Journalism Crisis” — will be in the Empire State, at Lincoln Center. Mr. Efune will be in conversation with Newsweek’s deputy opinion editor, Batya Ungar-Sargon, and the editorial features editor of the Wall Street Journal, James Taranto. Sunscreen will likely not be necessary.

The New York Sun Goes to the Beach

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