The Nation - News from Sept. 26, 1989

The premier edition of St. Louis’ new morning newspaper, the St. Louis Sun, was snatched up around the city by curious readers. Sales were brisk around town, and many of the Sun’s shiny red street corner boxes, dubbed “facts machines” by the Sun, were empty by mid-morning. The Sun, whose debut featured a color picture of a sun rising behind the Gateway Arch, is the first major newspaper to start from scratch in a big U.S. city since the Washington Times in 1982. The Sun published 200,000 copies of its premier edition. The colorful tabloid is competing with the 110-year-old St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Post-Dispatch has been the city’s only daily paper since the St. Louis Globe-Democrat folded in October, 1986.