Northern Virginia Sun

The Northern Virginia Sun was a newspaper published in Arlington, Virginia between 1935 and 1998. For most of this time, it was a 6-day-a-week broadsheet paper that emphasized local news. [1]

Its legacy can still be seen in the Arlington library system, which has maintained a collection of its "Then and Now" historical series of photos and short essays. [2]

The Sun's corporate descendant, Sun Gazette Newspapers, was sold to American Community Newspapers in 2005.

The paper drew national attention in the late 1970s when owner Herman Obermayer said the Sun would print the name of accusers in rape cases that came to trial, out of a sense of "fairness" between the two sides.

The original brick and concrete building on N. Ivy St., vacated in 1990 when the paper was taken over by Sun Gazette in Vienna, Va., is still standing and is currently a day care center.

Former staff

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the paper's day-to-day editor was Carol Griffee, who served initially as city editor, then executive editor, according to an interview with her conducted for a University of Arkansas project on the Arkansas Gazette, where she had also worked.

One of her reporters at the Sun was Christopher Dodd, who worked as a daily news reporter before he left to attend law school. He eventually became U.S. senator from Connecticut.

Vin Suprynowicz was a managing editor of the paper during the late 1970's.