Robert Smith (journalist, Born 1940)
Robert Michael Smith (born November 4, 1940) is a mediator, lawyer, author, and former journalist for ''The New York Times''. Smith covered Washington for ''The New York Times'' in the 1960s and 1970s. ''The New York Times,'' ''BBC News BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadca ...,'' '' NBC,'' and other media outlets featured articles about how Smith had the scoop on Watergate scandal, Watergate two months before journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the story for ''The The Washington Post, Washington Post''. The scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. In his memoir, ''Suppressed: Confessions of a New York Times Washington Correspondent'', Smith criticizes the ''Times'' for its failure to use the Watergate information and its subsequent lack of n ...
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The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ...
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