Island Sun
A privately owned English-language daily published in Honiara. The Island Sun competes with the Solomon Star as one of the Solomon Islands' main newspapers, reporting on national politics, provincial affairs, business and sport, and runs an active website carrying its daily print stories for readers across the islands and abroad.
Island Sun at a glance
- Country
- Solomon Islands
- Region
- Melanesia · Oceania
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- theislandsun.com.sb ↗
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How Crosswire groups Island Sun
Crosswire groups Island Sun as Centrist for comparisons within the Solomon Islands' directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate.
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Where Island Sun sits in the Solomon Islands' press
Island Sun is one of 3 outlets tracked in the Solomon Islands and the only daily newspaper tracked there. By outlets tracked, the Solomon Islands ranks sixth of the 8 countries on Crosswire's Oceania hub, which lists 32 outlets in all.
Across Oceania, Crosswire tracks 13 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Island Sun outside the Solomon Islands, starting with Melanesia, are Vanuatu Daily Post (Vanuatu), The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand) and Samoa Observer (Samoa). Opening one of them beside Island Sun is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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