The Daily Sun is also bucking the trend by loading its pages with advertisements for real estate, doctors, banks, golf courses, restaurants, and a wide selection of retail outlets.

[4] The Daily Sun has a special projects team that works on more complex issues and in-depth reporting that may take up to a year of investigation before publication.

The team had an in-depth feature on Florida's death-penalty sentencing policies in 2016, and the reporting went on to win multiple awards.

[4][8] The Daily Sun's newspaper strategy has been criticized by residents and national media for its lack of coverage of topics of importance to the community.

[10] A resident from The Villages who was selected to receive a private audience with Obama at the Democratic National Convention was told by the editor that the encounter was not newsworthy.