Las Vegas Sun to Fold Into Larger Paper

Nevada’s biggest evening newspaper, the Las Vegas Sun, has agreed to be folded into its much larger morning rival, the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The unusual deal would make the Sun a six-to-10-page section within the larger paper seven days a weeks and allow it to maintain its liberal editorial voice.

Brian Greenspun, the Sun’s president and editor, told his paper’s 80-member staff about the publishing agreement at a meeting Tuesday. He said some employees would lose their jobs, but declined to say how many.

Review-Journal publisher Sherman R. Frederick said the plan should help the Sun, at which circulation has slipped to 28,000 subscribers from 42,000 since 2003.