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How to Pitch: The Sun

It's all freelance, all the time for this thought-provoking New Yorker-esque magazine

By Megan Stride – April 3, 2009
Circulation: 72,000
Frequency: Monthly
Special issues: None

Background: Launched in 1974 by Sy Safransky, The Sun began as a local Chapel Hill 'zine -- a photocopied and stapled stack of pages sold at local bookstores and on the streets for 25 cents a pop. But Safransky had big plans: "He'd been in the journalism field for a long time, working daily news, and felt ...

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