As he enters his last week as the chairman of Dow Jones & Co., Peter R. Kann has a book review in today's Wall Street Journal Pursuits. It's about a biography of Dolly Schiff, the visionary lady who ran the New York Post from 1939 until 1976. Most of the way through, Kann's piece sounds like a tender love letter to Schiff and her Post—a paper he remembers as an "oasis of independent, albeit leftist, journalism in a gray era when the New York Times was blandly centrist and the rest of the New York press was scattered to the right."

In the last paragraph of his review, Kann turns an eye to the present, lamenting the modern landscape of New York journalism but singling out one paper that he thinks has all the right stuff.


Which paper is that? Try the New York Sun, the one started and run by Seth Lipsky, that pillar of old school American journalism who served under Kann from 1976 until 1980 as part of the founding staff of the Asian Wall Street Journal. The Sun, Kann writes, "is the New York paper I suspect Dolly Schiff would be reading if she were still alive. At least it's the one I now bring home to my teenagers."—LEON

A Tabloid Tale (subscription only) [WSJ]

*Disclosure: half of Gawker Weekend once interned at the Sun. Guess which half!