Las Vegas Sun

Company profile

Las Vegas Sun company profile

Las Vegas Sun is a local online news publication, which is committed to journalism and public service while continuing to provide quality coverage of breaking news, business, entertainment, local sports, and best political analysis. In 1949, the Review-Journal locked out members of the printing union. As a result, the International Typographical Union began its own newspaper on May 3, 1950, but struggled financially. The International Typographical Union then turned to Hank Greenspun. On May 21, 1950, Greenspun published his first edition as Las Vegas Free Press. In July of that year, the name was changed from the Las Vegas Free Press to the Las Vegas Sun. Las Vegas Sun is the first media organization that won the top awards in all three journalism areas of print, online, and broadcast. In 2009, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, journalism’s most prestigious award, for its investigation of construction deaths on the Las Vegas Strip and the failures of government, management, and labor unions to protect workers. It was also the first print-based news organization to win Columbia University's duPont Award. Las Vegas Sun was first published in 1950 by Hank Greenspun.