VOICES

Seth Lipsky

Editor

Seth Lipsky is the founding editor of the New York Sun, an independent conservative daily based in New York City.  He has been described in the The Boston Globe as "a legendary figure in contemporary journalism," in The Atlantic as having "the most interesting mind in journalism," and in New Criterion as "one of our age's great journalists." His numerous awards include the Emma Lazarus Prize of the American Jewish Historical Society. A 1968 graduate of Harvard College, Lipsky served as a private soldier in the United States Army, assigned as a combat reporter in Vietnam for Pacific Stars and Stripes. After the war he joined the The Wall Street Journal, becoming a roving correspondent in Asia and a member of the founding staff of the Asian Wall Street Journal, where he served as managing editor. He covered the Fall of Saigon for The Wall Street Journal. (Photo: Wikimedia / Creative Commons License)