The soon-to-be-launched New York Sun, named after a deceased publication famous for whimsically proving the existence of Father Christmas, will be a 12-30-page broadsheet a form of newspaper that, apart from the Times and a handful of other publications founded in the 1800s, has largely ceased to exist.

ECONOMIST: A noble, if oxymoronic, quest

In the glory days of the mid-1990s, when I first worked as political reporter for The Times newspaper, we were blessed with a large broadsheet page that we had to fill each day with political and parliamentary news.

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