''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily
newspaper
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based in
New York City
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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
podcast
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s such as ''
The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by
Henry Jarvis Raymond
Henry Jarvis Raymond (January 24, 1820 – June 18, 1869) was an American journalist, politician, and co-founder of ''The New York Times'', which he founded with George Jones. He was a member of the New York State Assembly, Lieutenant Governor ...
and
George Jones
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, 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
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".
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
The New York Times Company is an American mass media company that publishes ''The New York Times''. Its headquarters are in Manhattan, New York City.
History
The company was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones in New York City. T ...
, which is
publicly traded
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. 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 paper.
Since the mid-1970s, ''The New York Times'' has expanded its
layout
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and organization, adding special weekly sections on various topics supplementing the regular news, editorials, sports, and features. Since 2008,
the ''Times'' has been organized into the following sections:
News
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,
Editorial
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s/
Opinions
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-
Columns
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/
Op-Ed
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, New York (metropolitan),
Business
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,
Sports
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,
Arts
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,
Science
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,
Styles, Home, Travel, and other features. On Sundays, the ''Times'' is supplemented by the ''
Sunday Review'' (formerly the ''Week in Review''), ''
The New York Times Book Review
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'', ''
The New York Times Magazine
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'', and ''
T: The New York Times Style Magazine''. The
editorial pages of ''The New York Times'' are typically
liberal
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in their positions.
History
Origins
![New York Times Frontpage 1914-07-29](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/New_York_Times_Frontpage_1914-07-29.png)
''The New York Times'' was founded as the ''New-York Daily Times'' on September 18, 1851. Founded by journalist and politician
Henry Jarvis Raymond
Henry Jarvis Raymond (January 24, 1820 – June 18, 1869) was an American journalist, politician, and co-founder of ''The New York Times'', which he founded with George Jones. He was a member of the New York State Assembly, Lieutenant Governor ...
and former banker
George Jones
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, the ''Times'' was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. Early investors in the company included
Edwin B. Morgan,
Christopher Morgan,
and Edward B. Wesley. Sold for a penny (), the inaugural edition attempted to address various speculations on its purpose and positions that preceded its release:
In 1852, the newspaper started a western division, ''The Times of California'', which arrived whenever a
mail boat
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from New York docked in
California
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. The effort failed once local California newspapers came into prominence.
On September 14, 1857, the newspaper officially shortened its name to ''The New-York Times''. The hyphen in the city name was dropped on December 1, 1896. On April 21, 1861, ''The New York Times'' began publishing a Sunday edition to offer daily coverage of the
Civil War
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.
The main office of ''The New York Times'' was attacked during the
New York City draft riots
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. The riots, sparked by the institution of a draft for the
Union Army
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, began on July 13, 1863. On "
Newspaper Row", across from
City Hall
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, co-founder
Henry Raymond stopped the rioters with
Gatling gun
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s, early machine guns, one of which he wielded himself. The mob diverted, instead attacking the headquarters of abolitionist publisher
Horace Greeley
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's ''
New York Tribune
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'' until being forced to flee by the
Brooklyn City Police, who had crossed the
East River
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to help the
Manhattan
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authorities.
In 1869, Henry Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher.
![Old NY Times Building 01](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Old_NY_Times_Building_01.jpg)
The newspaper's influence grew in 1870 and 1871, when it published a series of exposés on
William Tweed, leader of the city's
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— popularly known as "
Tammany Hall
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" (from its early-19th-century meeting headquarters) — that led to the end of the Tweed Ring's domination of New York's City Hall. Tweed had offered ''The New York Times'' five million dollars (equivalent to million dollars in ) to not publish the story.
In the 1880s, ''The New York Times'' gradually transitioned from supporting
Republican Party candidates in its editorials to becoming more politically independent and analytical.
In 1884, the paper supported
Democrat
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Grover Cleveland
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(former mayor of
Buffalo and
governor of New York
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) in his
first presidential campaign.
While this move cost ''The New York Times'' a portion of its readership among its more Republican readers (revenue declined from $188,000 to $56,000 from 1883 to 1884), the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years.
Ochs era
After George Jones died in 1891,
Charles Ransom Miller and other ''New York Times'' editors raised $1 million (equivalent to $ million in ) to buy the ''Times'', printing it under the New York Times Publishing Company. The newspaper found itself in a financial crisis by the
Panic of 1893
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,
and by 1896, the newspaper had a circulation of less than 9,000 and was losing $1,000 a day. That year,
Adolph Ochs
Adolph Simon Ochs (March 12, 1858 – April 8, 1935) was an American newspaper publisher and former owner of ''The New York Times'' and ''The Chattanooga Times'' (now the ''Chattanooga Times Free Press'').
Early life and career
Ochs was born t ...
, the publisher of the ''
Chattanooga Times
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'', gained a controlling interest in the company for $75,000.
Shortly after assuming control of the paper, Ochs coined the paper's slogan, "All The News That's Fit To Print". This slogan has endured, appearing in the paper since September 1896, and has been printed in a box in the upper left hand corner of the front page since early 1897.
The slogan was seen as a jab at competing publications, such as
Joseph Pulitzer
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's ''
New York World
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'' and
William Randolph Hearst
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's ''
New York Journal
:''Includes coverage of New York Journal-American and its predecessors New York Journal, The Journal, New York American and New York Evening Journal''
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'', which were known for a lurid, sensationalist and often inaccurate reporting of facts and opinions, described by the end of the century as "
yellow journalism
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".
Under Ochs' guidance, aided by
Carr Van Anda
Carr Vattal Van Anda (December 2, 1864 – January 29, 1945) was the managing editor of ''The New York Times'' under Adolph Ochs, from 1904 to 1932.
Biography
Van Anda was born in Georgetown, Ohio to Frederick Van Anda and Mariah Davis. He m ...
, ''The New York Times'' achieved international scope, circulation, and reputation; Sunday circulation went from under 9,000 in 1896 to 780,000 in 1934.
Van Anda also created the newspaper's photo library, now colloquially referred to as "
the morgue
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Born in the capital of Ceará, he spent h ...
." In 1904, during the
Russo-Japanese War
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, ''The New York Times'', along with ''
The Times
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'', received the first on-the-spot
wireless
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telegraph
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transmission from a naval battle: a report of the destruction of the
Russian Navy's
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, at the
Battle of Port Arthur
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, from the press-boat ''
Haimun''. In 1910, the first air delivery of ''The New York Times'' to
Philadelphia
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began.
In 1919, ''The New York Times'' first trans-Atlantic delivery to
London
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occurred by
dirigible balloon
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In early ...
. In 1920, during the
1920 Republican National Convention, a "4 A.M. Airplane Edition" was sent to
Chicago
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by plane, so it could be in the hands of convention delegates by evening.
In 1920,
Walter Lippmann
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and Charles Merz published
A Test of the News ''A Test of the News'' is a study of the objectivity and neutrality of press coverage, written by Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz, later editor of ''The New York Times''. It was prepared with the assistance of Faye Albertson Lippmann, Lippmann's fi ...
, about New York Times coverage of the Russian Revolution. They concluded that its news stories were not based on facts, but "were determined by the hopes of the men who made up the news organisations." The newspaper referred to events that had not taken place, atrocities that did not exist, and reported no fewer than 91 times that the Bolshevik regime was on the verge of collapse.
Post-war expansion
![The New York Times newsroom 1942](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/The_New_York_Times_newsroom_1942.jpg)
Ochs died in 1935 and was succeeded as publisher by his son-in-law,
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (September 12, 1891December 11, 1968) was the publisher of ''The New York Times'' from 1935 to 1961. During that time, daily circulation rose from 465,000 to 713,000 and Sunday circulation from 745,000 to 1.4 million; the st ...
. Under his leadership, and that of his son-in-law (and successor),
Orvil Dryfoos
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, the paper extended its breadth and reach, beginning in the 1940s. The
crossword
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began appearing regularly in 1942, and the fashion section first appeared in 1946. ''The New York Times'' began an international edition in 1946. (The international edition stopped publishing in 1967, when ''The New York Times'' joined the owners of the ''
New York Herald Tribune
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'' and ''
The Washington Post
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'' to publish the ''
International Herald Tribune
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'' in Paris.)
After only two years as publisher, Dryfoos died in 1963 and was succeeded by his brother-in-law,
Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger, who led the ''Times'' until 1992 and continued the expansion of the paper.
''New York Times v. Sullivan'' (1964)
The paper's involvement in a 1964
libel
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case helped bring one of the key
United States Supreme Court
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decisions supporting
freedom of the press
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, ''New York Times Co. v. Sullivan''. In it, the United States Supreme Court established the "
actual malice
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" standard for press reports about public officials or
public figure
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In the context of defamation actions (libel and ...
s to be considered
defamatory
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or
libel
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ous. The malice standard requires the plaintiff in a defamation or libel case to prove the publisher of the statement knew the statement was false or acted in
reckless disregard
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of its truth or falsity. Because of the high
burden of proof on the plaintiff, and difficulty proving malicious intent, such cases by public figures rarely succeed.
The ''Pentagon Papers'' (1971)
In 1971, the ''Pentagon Papers'', a secret
United States Department of Defense
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history of the United States' political and military involvement in the
Vietnam War
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from 1945 to 1967, were given ("leaked") to
Neil Sheehan
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of ''The New York Times'' by former
State Department
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official
Daniel Ellsberg
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, with his friend
Anthony Russo assisting in copying them. ''The New York Times'' began publishing excerpts as a series of articles on June 13. Controversy and lawsuits followed. The papers revealed, among other things, that the government had deliberately expanded its role in the war by conducting airstrikes over
Laos
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, raids along the coast of
North Vietnam
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, and offensive actions were taken by the
U.S. Marines
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well before the public was told about the actions, all while President
Lyndon B. Johnson
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had been promising not to expand the war. The document increased the
credibility gap
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for the
U.S. government, and hurt efforts by the
Nixon administration
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to fight the ongoing war.
When ''The New York Times'' began publishing its series, President
Richard Nixon
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became incensed. His words to
National Security
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Advisor
Henry Kissinger
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included "People have gotta be put to the torch for this sort of thing" and "Let's get the son-of-a-bitch in jail." After failing to get ''The New York Times'' to stop publishing,
Attorney General
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In some jurisdictions, attorneys general also have exec ...
John Mitchell and President Nixon obtained a federal court injunction that ''The New York Times'' cease publication of excerpts. The newspaper appealed and the case began working through the court system.
On June 18, 1971, ''The Washington Post'' began publishing its own series.
Ben Bagdikian
Ben-hur Haig Bagdikian (January 30, 1920 – March 11, 2016) was an Armenian-American journalist, news media critic and commentator, and university professor.
An Armenian genocide survivor, Bagdikian moved to the United States as an infant and ...
, a ''Post'' editor, had obtained portions of the papers from Ellsberg. That day the ''Post'' received a call from
William Rehnquist
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, an assistant U.S. Attorney General for the
Office of Legal Counsel
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, asking them to stop publishing. When the ''Post'' refused, the
U.S. Justice Department
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sought another injunction. The
U.S. District court judge refused, and the government appealed.
On June 26, 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take both cases, merging them into ''
New York Times Co. v. United States
''New York Times Co. v. United States'', 403 U.S. 713 (1971), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the First Amendment right of Freedom of the Press. The ruling made it possible for ''The New York Times'' and ''The ...
''. On June 30, 1971, the Supreme Court held in a 6–3 decision that the injunctions were unconstitutional prior restraints and that the government had not met the burden of proof required. The justices wrote nine separate opinions, disagreeing on significant substantive issues. While it was generally seen as a victory for those who claim the
First Amendment
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First or 1st may also refer to:
*World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement
Arts and media Music
* 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and rec ...
enshrines an absolute
right to free speech
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, many felt it a lukewarm victory, offering little protection for future publishers when claims of
national security
National security, or national defence, is the security and defence of a sovereign state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of government. Originally conceived as protection against military atta ...
were at stake.
Late 1970s–1990s
In the 1970s, the paper introduced a number of new lifestyle sections, including Weekend and Home, with the aim of attracting more advertisers and readers. Many criticized the move for betraying the paper's mission. On September 7, 1976, the paper switched from an eight-column format to a six-column format. The overall page width stayed the same, with each column becoming wider.
On September 14, 1987, the ''Times'' printed the heaviest-ever newspaper, at over and 1,612 pages.
In 1992,
"Punch" Sulzberger stepped down as publisher; his son,
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
Arthur Ochs "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. (born September 22, 1951) is an American journalist.
Sulzberger was the chairman of The New York Times Company from 1997 to 2020, and the publisher of ''The New York Times'' from 1992 to 2018.
Early life and ...
, succeeded him, first as publisher and then as chairman of the board in 1997. The ''Times'' was one of the last newspapers to adopt
color photography
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, with the first color photograph on the front page appearing on October 16, 1997.
Digital era
Early digital content
![NYT News Room Pulitzer speech 2009](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/NYT_News_Room_Pulitzer_speech_2009.jpg)
''The New York Times'' switched to a digital production process sometime before 1980, but only began preserving the resulting digital text that year.
In 1983, the ''Times'' sold the electronic rights to its articles to
LexisNexis
LexisNexis is a part of the RELX corporation that sells data analytics products and various databases that are accessed through online portals, including portals for computer-assisted legal research (CALR), newspaper search, and consumer informa ...
. As the online distribution of news increased in the 1990s, the ''Times'' decided not to renew the deal and in 1994 the newspaper regained electronic rights to its articles. On January 22, 1996, NYTimes.com began publishing.
2000s
In August 2007, the paper reduced the physical size of its print edition, cutting the page width from to a . This followed similar moves by a roster of other newspapers in the previous ten years, including ''
USA Today
''USA Today'' (stylized in all uppercase) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virgini ...
'', ''
The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
'', and ''
The Washington Post
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''. The move resulted in a 5% reduction in news space, but (in an era of dwindling circulation and significant advertising revenue losses) also saved about $12 million a year.
In September 2008, ''The New York Times'' announced that it would be combining certain sections effective October 6, 2008, in editions printed in the
New York metropolitan area
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.
The changes folded the Metro Section into the main International / National news section and combined Sports and Business (except Saturday through Monday, while Sports continues to be printed as a standalone section). This change also included having the Metro section called New York outside of the Tri-State Area. The presses used by ''The New York Times'' can allow four sections to be printed simultaneously; as the paper includes more than four sections on all days except for Saturday, the sections were required to be printed separately in an early press run and collated together. The changes allowed ''The New York Times'' to print in four sections Monday through Wednesday, in addition to Saturday. ''The New York Times'' announcement stated that the number of news pages and employee positions would remain unchanged, with the paper realizing cost savings by cutting overtime expenses.
Because of its declining sales largely attributed to the rise of online news sources, favored especially by younger readers, and the decline of advertising revenue, the newspaper had been going through a downsizing for several years, offering buyouts to workers and cutting expenses,
in common with a general trend among print news media. Following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million.
In 2009, the newspaper began production of local inserts in regions outside of the New York area. Beginning October 16, 2009, a two-page "Bay Area" insert was added to copies of the
Northern California
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edition on Fridays and Sundays. The newspaper commenced production of a similar Friday and Sunday insert to the Chicago edition on November 20, 2009. The inserts consist of local news, policy, sports, and culture pieces, usually supported by local advertisements.
2010s
In December 2012, the ''Times'' published "
Snow Fall
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It consists of frozen crystalline water throughout ...
", a six-part article about the
2012 Tunnel Creek avalanche which integrated videos, photos, and interactive graphics and was hailed as a watershed moment for online journalism.
In 2013,
How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk" an interactive quiz created by intern
Josh Katz,
based on the Harvard Dialect Survey, which collected responses of more than 50,000 people answering 122 questions about the way they said different things across the United States
became the ''Times'' most popular piece of content of the year.
[
In 2016, reporters for the newspaper were reportedly the target of ]cybersecurity
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breaches. The Federal Bureau of Investigation
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was reportedly investigating the attacks. The cybersecurity breaches have been described as possibly being related to cyberattack
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s that targeted other institutions, such as the Democratic National Committee
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.
During the 2016 presidential election, the ''Times'' played an important role in elevating the Hillary Clinton emails controversy into the most important subject of media coverage in the election which Clinton would lose narrowly to Donald Trump. The controversy received more media coverage than any other topic during the presidential campaign. Clinton and other observers argue that coverage of the emails controversy contributed to her loss in the election. According to a Columbia Journalism Review analysis, "''in just six days,'' The New York Times ''ran as many cover stories about Hillary Clinton's emails as they did about all policy issues combined in the 69 days leading up to the election'' (and that does not include the three additional articles on October 18, and November 6 and 7, or the two articles on the emails taken from John Podesta)."
In October 2018, the ''Times'' published a 14,218-word investigation into Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
's "self-made" fortune and tax avoidance
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, an 18-month project based on examination of 100,000 pages of documents. The extensive article ran as an eight-page feature in the print edition and also was adapted into a shortened 2,500 word listicle
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featuring its key takeaways. After the midweek front-page story, the ''Times'' also republished the piece as a 12-page "special report" section in the Sunday paper. During the lengthy investigation, Showtime
Showtime or Show Time may refer to:
Film
* ''Showtime'' (film), a 2002 American action/comedy film
* ''Showtime'' (video), a 1995 live concert video by Blur
Television Networks and channels
* Showtime Networks, a division of Paramount Global w ...
cameras followed the ''Times'' three investigative reporters for a half-hour documentary called ''The Family Business: Trump and Taxes'', which aired the following Sunday. The report won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
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.
In May 2019, ''The New York Times'' announced that it would present a television news program based on news from its individual reporters stationed around the world and that it would premiere on FX and Hulu
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.
2020s
In August 2021, the paper announced an effort to make 18 newsletters available only to subscribers, even though some of the most popular ones would remain free. Part of this was in response to competition from Substack
Substack is an American online platform that provides publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure to support subscription newsletters. It allows writers to send digital newsletters directly to subscribers. Founded in 2017, Substack ...
.
In January 2022, the New York Times Company announced that it would acquire ''The Athletic
''The Athletic'' is a subscription-based sports website that provides national and local coverage in 47 North American cities as well as the United Kingdom. ''The Athletic'' also covers national stories from top professional and college sports ...
'', a subscription-based sports news website. The $550 million deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, and ''The Athletic'''s co-founders, Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann, would stay with the publication, which would continue to be run separately from the ''Times''. Recode
''Recode'' (formerly ''Re/code'') is a technology news website that focused on the business of Silicon Valley. Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher founded it in January 2014, after they left Dow Jones and the similar website they had previously c ...
/ Vox reported that this acquisition was part of an effort for the paper to get a younger, more diverse readership, as were offerings like games, cooking, and audio. The same month, the paper announced it was acquiring Wordle
''Wordle'' is a web-based word game created and developed by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle, and owned and published by The New York Times Company since 2022. Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with feedback given for ...
, a relatively new game that became popular rather quickly and that would remain free "initially."
In April 2022, ''The New York Times'' published a three-part 20,000-word investigative series on Fox News host Tucker Carlson
Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is an American television host, conservative political commentator and writer who has hosted the nightly political talk show '' Tucker Carlson Tonight'' on Fox News since 2016.
Carlson began ...
called "American Nationalist". The investigative series documents Carlson's rise to prominence and his rhetoric on immigration, race relations and the COVID-19 pandemic. Carlson responded by saying that he has not read "American Nationalist" and does not plan to. He also denied allegations from the ''Times'' about obsessing over ratings, saying that "I've never read the ratings a single day in my life. I don't even know how. Ask anyone at Fox." and that "Most of the big positions I've taken in the past five years — against the neocons, the vax and the war n Ukraine
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— have been very unpopular with our audience at first."
In December 2022, over 1,000 ''New York Times'' staffers staged a strike for the first time in over 40 years.
Headquarters building
The newspaper's first building was located at 113 Nassau Street in New York City. In 1854, it moved to 138 Nassau Street, and in 1858 to 41 Park Row, making it the first newspaper in New York City housed in a building built specifically for its use.
The newspaper moved its headquarters to the Times Tower, located at 1475 Broadway
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Theatre
* Broadway Theatre (disambiguation)
* Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
** Broadway (Manhattan), the street
**Broadway Theatre (53rd Stree ...
in 1904, in an area then called Longacre Square, that was later renamed Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street. Together with adjacent ...
in the newspaper's honor. The top of the building — now known as One Times Square
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— is the site of the New Year's Eve
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tradition of lowering a lighted ball, which was begun by the paper. The building is also known for its electronic news ticker
A news ticker (sometimes called a "crawler", "crawl", "slide", "zipper", or "ticker tape") is a horizontal or vertical (depending on a language's writing system) text-based display either in the form of a graphic that typically resides in the lo ...
— popularly known as "The Zipper" — where headlines crawl around the outside of the building. It is still in use, but has been operated by Dow Jones & Company
Dow Jones & Company, Inc. is an American publishing firm owned by News Corp and led by CEO Almar Latour.
The company publishes ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''Barron's'', ''MarketWatch'', ''Mansion Global'', ''Financial News'' and ''Private Equ ...
since 1995. After nine years in its Times Square tower, the newspaper had an annex built at 229 West 43rd Street. After several expansions, the 43rd Street building became the newspaper's main headquarters in 1960 and the Times Tower on Broadway was sold the following year. It served as the newspaper's main printing plant until 1997, when the newspaper opened a state-of-the-art printing plant in the College Point section of Queens
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.
A decade later, ''The New York Times'' moved its newsroom and businesses headquarters from West 43rd Street to a new tower at 620 Eighth Avenue between West 40th and 41st Streets, in Manhattan
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, directly across Eighth Avenue from the Port Authority Bus Terminal
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. The new headquarters for the newspaper, known officially as The New York Times Building
The New York Times Building is a 52-story skyscraper at 620 Eighth Avenue (Manhattan), Eighth Avenue, between 40th and 41st Streets, on the west side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Its chief tenant is the New York Times Company, publis ...
but unofficially called the new "Times Tower" by many New Yorkers, is a skyscraper
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designed by Renzo Piano
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.
Gender discrimination in employment
Discriminatory
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practices used by the paper long restricted women in appointments to editorial positions. The newspaper's first general female reporter was Jane Grant
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Life and career
Jane Grant was born Jeanette Cole Grant in Joplin, Missouri, and grew up and w ...
, who described her experience afterward: "In the beginning I was charged not to reveal the fact that a female had been hired". Other reporters nicknamed her Fluff and she was subjected to considerable hazing
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. Because of her gender
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, any promotion was out of the question, according to the then-managing editor. She remained on the staff for fifteen years, interrupted by World War I.
In 1935, Anne McCormick wrote to Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (September 12, 1891December 11, 1968) was the publisher of ''The New York Times'' from 1935 to 1961. During that time, daily circulation rose from 465,000 to 713,000 and Sunday circulation from 745,000 to 1.4 million; the st ...
: "I hope you won't expect me to revert to 'woman's-point-of-view' stuff." Later, she interviewed major political leaders and appears to have had easier access than her colleagues. Even witnesses of her actions were unable to explain how she gained the interviews she did. Clifton Daniel
Elbert Clifton Daniel, Jr. (September 19, 1912 – February 21, 2000) was an American newspaperman who was the managing editor of ''The New York Times'' from 1964 to 1969. Before assuming the top editorial job at the paper, he served as the ...
said, " fter World War II,I'm sure Adenauer
Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (; 5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was a German statesman who served as the first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1963. From 1946 to 1966, he was the first leader of the Christian Demo ...
called her up and invited her to lunch. She never had to grovel for an appointment."
Covering world leaders' speeches after World War II
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at the National Press Club
Organizations
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was limited to men by a club rule. When women were eventually allowed to hear the speeches directly, they were still not allowed to ask the speakers questions. Men were allowed and did ask, even though some of the women had won Pulitzer Prizes for prior work. ''Times'' reporter Maggie Hunter refused to return to the club after covering one speech on assignment. Nan Robertson's article on the Union Stock Yards
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, Chicago
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, was read aloud as anonymous by a professor, who then said: "'It will come as a surprise to you, perhaps, that the reporter is a ''girl,'' he began... sps; amazement in the ranks. 'She had used all her senses, not just her eyes, to convey the smell and feel of the stockyards. She chose a difficult subject, an offensive subject. Her imagery was strong enough to revolt you.'" ''The New York Times'' hired Kathleen McLaughlin after ten years at the ''Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television ar ...
'', where " e did a series on maids, going out herself to apply for housekeeping jobs."
Slogan
''The New York Times'' has had one slogan. Since 1896, the newspaper's slogan has been "All the News That's Fit to Print." In 1896, Adolph Ochs
Adolph Simon Ochs (March 12, 1858 – April 8, 1935) was an American newspaper publisher and former owner of ''The New York Times'' and ''The Chattanooga Times'' (now the ''Chattanooga Times Free Press'').
Early life and career
Ochs was born t ...
held a competition to attempt to find a replacement slogan, offering a $100 prize for the best one. Though he later announced that the original would not be changed, the prize would still be awarded. Entries included "News, Not Nausea"; "In One Word: Adequate"; "News Without Noise"; "Out Heralds '' The Herald'', Informs ''The World
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'', and Extinguishes '' The Sun''"; "The Public Press is a Public Trust"; and the winner of the competition, "All the world's news, but not a school for scandal." On May 10, 1960, Wright Patman
John William Wright Patman (August 6, 1893 – March 7, 1976) was an American politician. First elected in 1928, Patman served 24 consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives for Texas's 1st congressional district from 1929 to ...
asked the FTC to investigate whether ''The New York Times's'' slogan was misleading or false advertising
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. Within 10 days, the FTC responded that it was not.
Again in 1996, a competition was held to find a new slogan, this time for NYTimes.com. Over 8,000 entries were submitted, with "All the News That's Fit to Print" found to be the best.
Organization
Meredith Kopit Levien has been president and chief executive officer since September 2020.
News staff
In addition to its New York City headquarters, the paper has newsrooms in London
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and Hong Kong
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. Its Paris newsroom, which had been the headquarters of the paper's international edition, was closed in 2016, although the city remains home to a news bureau and an advertising office. The paper also has an editing and wire service center in Gainesville, Florida
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.
, the newspaper had six news bureaus in the New York region, 14 elsewhere in the United States, and 24 in other countries.
In 2009, Russ Stanton, editor of the ''Los Angeles Times
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'', a competitor, stated that the newsroom
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of ''The New York Times'' was twice the size of the ''Los Angeles Times'', which had a newsroom of 600 at the time.
To facilitate their reporting and to hasten an otherwise lengthy process of reviewing many documents during preparation for publication, their interactive news team has adapted optical character recognition
Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scen ...
technology into a proprietary tool known as ''Document Helper''. It enables the team to accelerate the processing of documents that need to be reviewed. During March 2019, they documented that this tool enabled them to process 900 documents in less than ten minutes in preparation for reporters to review the contents.
The newspaper's editorial staff, including over 3,000 reporters and media staff, are unionized with NewsGuild. In 2021, the ''Times'' digital technology staff formed a union with NewsGuild, which the company declined to voluntarily recognize.
Ochs-Sulzberger family
In 1896, Adolph Ochs bought ''The New York Times'', a money-losing newspaper, and formed the New York Times Company. The Ochs-Sulzberger family, one of the United States' newspaper dynasties, has owned ''The New York Times'' ever since. The publisher went public on January 14, 1969, trading at $42 a share on the American Stock Exchange
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. After this, the family continued to exert control through its ownership of the vast majority of Class B voting shares
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. Class A shareholders are permitted restrictive voting rights, while Class B shareholders are allowed open voting rights.
The Ochs-Sulzberger family trust controls roughly 88 percent of the company's class B shares. Any alteration to the dual-class structure must be ratified by six of eight directors who sit on the board of the Ochs-Sulzberger family trust. The trust board members are Daniel H. Cohen, James M. Cohen, Lynn G. Dolnick, Susan W. Dryfoos, Michael Golden, Eric M. A. Lax, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., and Cathy J. Sulzberger.
Turner Catledge
William Turner Catledge (; 1901–1983) was an American journalist, best known for his work at ''The New York Times''. He was managing editor from 1952 to 1964, when he became the paper's first executive editor.
After retiring in 1968, he serv ...
, the top editor at ''The New York Times'' from 1952 to 1968, wanted to hide the ownership influence. Arthur Sulzberger routinely wrote memos to his editor, each containing suggestions, instructions, complaints, and orders. When Catledge would receive these memos, he would erase the publisher's identity before passing them to his subordinates. Catledge thought that if he removed the publisher's name from the memos, it would protect reporters from feeling pressured by the owner.
Public editors
The position of public editor was established in 2003 to "investigate matters of journalistic integrity"; each public editor was to serve a two-year term. The post "was established to receive reader complaints and question ''Times'' journalists on how they make decisions."[Daniel Victor]
New York Times Will Offer Employee Buyouts and Eliminate Public Editor Role
, ''The New York Times'' (May 31, 2017). The impetus for the creation of the public editor position was the Jayson Blair
Jayson Thomas Blair (born March 23, 1976) is an American former journalist who worked for ''The New York Times''. He resigned from the newspaper in May 2003 in the wake of the discovery of fabrication and plagiarism in his stories.
Blair publis ...
affair. Public editors were: Daniel Okrent
Daniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and editing, editor. He is best known for having served as the first public editor of ''The New York Times'' newspaper, inventing Rotisserie League Baseball, and for writing several books ( ...
(2003–2005), Byron Calame (2005–2007), Clark Hoyt
Clark Hoyt is an Americans, American journalist who was the ombudsman, public editor of ''The New York Times'', serving as the "readers' representative." He was the newspaper's third public editor, or ombudsman, after Daniel Okrent and Byron Calame ...
(2007–2010) (served an extra year), Arthur S. Brisbane (2010–2012), Margaret Sullivan (2012–2016) (served a four-year term), and Elizabeth Spayd (2016–2017). In 2017, the ''Times'' eliminated the position of public editor.
Content
Editorial stance
The editorial pages of ''The New York Times'' are typically liberal
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** Liberalism by country
* an adherent of a Liberal Party
* Liberalism (international relations)
* Sexually liberal feminism
* Social liberalism
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in their position. In mid-2004, the newspaper's then public editor
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(ombudsman
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), Daniel Okrent
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, wrote that "the Op-Ed page editors do an evenhanded job of representing a range of views in the essays from outsiders they publish – but you need an awfully heavy counterweight to balance a page that also bears the work of seven opinionated columnists, only two of whom could be classified as conservative (and, even then, of the conservative subspecies that supports legalization of gay unions and, in the case of William Safire
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, opposes some central provisions of the Patriot Act
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)."
''The New York Times'' has not endorsed a Republican Party member for president since Dwight D. Eisenhower
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in 1956; since 1960, it has endorsed the Democratic Party nominee in every presidential election (see New York Times presidential endorsements
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). ''The New York Times'' did endorse incumbent moderate Republican mayors of New York City Rudy Giuliani
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in 1997, and Michael Bloomberg
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in 2005 and 2009. The ''Times'' also endorsed Republican New York state
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governor George Pataki
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for re-election in 2002.
Style
Unlike most U.S. daily newspapers, the ''Times'' relies on its own in-house stylebook
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rather than The Associated Press Stylebook
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. When referring to people, ''The New York Times'' generally uses honorific
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s rather than unadorned last names (except in the sports pages, pop culture coverage, and the Book Review and Magazine).
''The New York Times'' printed a display advertisement on its first page on January 6, 2009, breaking tradition at the paper. The advertisement, for CBS
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, was in color and ran the entire width of the page. The newspaper promised it would place first-page advertisements on only the lower half of the page.
In August 2014, the ''Times'' decided to use the word "torture
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" to describe incidents in which interrogators "inflicted pain on a prisoner in an effort to get information." This was a shift from the paper's previous practice of describing such practices as "harsh" or "brutal" interrogations.
The paper maintains a strict profanity policy. A 2007 review of a concert by the punk band Fucked Up
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, for example, completely avoided mention of the group's name. The ''Times'' has on occasion published unfiltered video content that includes profanity
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and slurs where it has determined that such video has news value. During the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, the ''Times'' did print the words "fuck" and " pussy," among others, when reporting on the vulgar statements made by Donald Trump
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Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
in a 2005 recording. Then-''Times'' politics editor Carolyn Ryan said: "It's a rare thing for us to use this language in our stories, even in quotes, and we discussed it at length." Ryan said the paper ultimately decided to publish it because of its news value and because " leave it out or simply describe it seemed awkward and less than forthright to us, especially given that we would be running a video that showed our readers exactly what was said."
Products
Print newspaper
In the absence of a major headline, the day's most important story generally appears in the top-right column, on the main page. The typeface
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s used for the headlines are custom variations of Cheltenham
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. The running text is set at 8.7 point
Point or points may refer to:
Places
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* Point, Texas, a city in Rains County, Texas, United States
* Point, the NE tip and a ferry terminal of Lismore, Inner Hebrides, Scotland
* Point ...
Imperial
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Imperial or The Imperial may also refer to:
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United States
* Imperial, California
* Imperial, Missouri
* Imperial, Nebraska
* Imperial, Pennsylvania
* Imperial, Texa ...
.
The newspaper is organized into three sections, including the magazine:
# News: Includes International, National, Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
, Business, Technology, Science, Health, Sports, The Metro
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* Metro (city), a city in Indonesia
* A metropolitan area, the populated region including and surrounding an urban center
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Section, Education, Weather, and Obituaries.
# Opinion: Includes Editorial
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s, Op-ed
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s and Letters to the Editor
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.
# Features: Includes Arts, Movies, Theater, Travel, NYC Guide, Food, Home & Garden, Fashion & Style, Crossword
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, ''The New York Times Book Review'','' T: The New York Times Style Magazine'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', and Sunday Review.
Some sections, such as Metro, are only found in the editions of the paper distributed in the New York–New Jersey–Connecticut Tri-state area and not in the national or Washington, D.C., editions. Aside from a weekly roundup of reprints of editorial cartoon
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s from other newspapers, ''The New York Times'' does not have its own staff editorial cartoonist
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, nor does it feature a comics page
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Summary
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or Sunday comics
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section.
From 1851 to 2017, ''The New York Times'' published around 60,000 print issues containing about 3.5 million pages and 15 million articles.
Like most other American newspapers
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, ''The New York Times'' has experienced a decline in circulation. Its printed weekday circulation dropped by percent to 540,000 copies from 2005 to 2017.
''International Edition''
''The New York Times International Edition
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'' is a print version of the paper tailored for readers outside the United States. Formerly a joint venture with ''The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...
'' named The International Herald Tribune, ''The New York Times'' took full ownership of the paper in 2002 and has gradually integrated it more closely into its domestic operations.
Website
''The New York Times'' began publishing daily on the World Wide Web
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Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web se ...
on January 22, 1996, "offering readers around the world immediate access to most of the daily newspaper's contents." The website had 555 million pageviews and 15 million unique visitors in March 2005. By March 2020, this had risen to 2.5 billion pageviews and 240 million unique visitors.
, nytimes.com produced 22 of the 50 most popular newspaper blogs.
As of August 2020, the company had 6.5 million paid subscribers, out of which 5.7 million were subscribed to its digital content. In the period April–June 2020, it added 669,000 new digital subscribers.
Food section
The food section is supplemented on the web by properties for home cooks and for out-of-home dining. ''The New York Times'' Cooking (cooking.nytimes.com; also available via iOS app) provides access to more than 17,000 recipes on file , and availability of saving recipes from other sites around the web. The newspaper's restaurant search (nytimes.com/reviews/dining) allows online readers to search NYC area restaurants by cuisine, neighborhood, price, and reviewer rating. ''The New York Times'' has also published several cookbooks, including '' The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century'', published in late 2010.
''TimesSelect''
In September 2005, the paper decided to begin subscription-based service for daily columns in a program known as ''TimesSelect'', which encompassed many previously free columns. Until being discontinued two years later, ''TimesSelect'' cost $7.95 per month or $49.95 per year, though it was free for print copy subscribers and university students and faculty. To avoid this charge, bloggers often reposted TimesSelect material, and at least one site once compiled links of reprinted material.
On September 17, 2007, ''The New York Times'' announced that it would stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight the following day, reflecting a growing view in the industry that subscription fees cannot outweigh the potential ad revenue from increased traffic on a free site.
''Times'' columnists including Nicholas Kristof
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Born in Chicago, Kristof wa ...
and Thomas Friedman
Thomas Loren Friedman (; born July 20, 1953) is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for ''The New York Times''. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global ...
had criticized ''TimesSelect'', with Friedman going so far as to say "I hate it. It pains me enormously because it's cut me off from a lot, a lot of people, especially because I have a lot of people reading me overseas, like in India ... I feel totally cut off from my audience."
Paywall and digital subscriptions
In 2007, in addition to opening almost the entire site to all readers, ''The New York Times'' news archives from 1987 to the present were made available at no charge to non-subscribers, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain
The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work
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.
Falling print advertising revenue and projections of continued decline resulted in a "metered paywall
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" being instituted in March 2011, limiting non-subscribers to a monthly allotment of 20 free on-line articles per month. This measure was regarded as modestly successful after garnering several hundred thousand subscriptions and about $100 million in revenue .
Beginning in April 2012, the number of free-access articles was halved from 20 to 10 articles per month. Any reader who wanted to access more would have to pay for a digital subscription. This plan allowed free access for occasional readers. Digital subscription rates for four weeks ranged from $15 to $35 depending on the package selected, with periodic new subscriber promotions offering four-week all-digital access for as low as 99¢. Subscribers to the paper's print edition got full access without any additional fee. Some content, such as the front page and section fronts remained free, as well as the Top News page on mobile apps. In January 2013, ''The New York Times'' Public Editor
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Margaret M. Sullivan
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announced that for the first time in many decades, the paper generated more revenue through subscriptions than through advertising.
In December 2017, the number of free articles per month was reduced from 10 to 5, the first change to the metered paywall since April 2012. An executive of the New York Times Company stated that the decision was motivated by "an all-time high" in the demand for journalism. A digital subscription to ''The New York Times'' cost $16 a month in 2017. , ''The New York Times'' had a total of 3.5 million paid subscriptions in both print and digital versions, and about 130 million monthly readers, more than double its audience two years previously. In February 2018, the New York Times Company reported increased revenue from the digital-only subscriptions, adding 157,000 new subscribers to a total of 2.6 million digital-only subscribers. Digital advertising also saw growth during this period. At the same time, advertising for the print version of the journal fell.
Mobile presence
Apps
In 2008, ''The New York Times'' was made available as an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch
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; as well as publishing an iPad app in 2010. The app allowed users to download articles to their mobile device enabling them to read the paper even when they were unable to receive a signal. , ''The New York Times'' iPad app is ad-supported
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and available for free without a paid subscription, but translated into a subscription-based model in 2011.
In 2010, ''The New York Times'' editors collaborated with students and faculty from New York University
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In 1832, the ...
's Studio 20 Journalism Masters program to launch and produce "The Local East Village", a hyperlocal
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blog designed to offer news "by, for and about the residents of the East Village". That same year, reCAPTCHA
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helped to digitize old editions of ''The New York Times''.
In 2010, the newspaper also launched an app for Android smartphones, followed later by an app for Windows Phone
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s.
Moreover, the ''Times'' was the first newspaper to offer a video game
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as part of its editorial content, ''Food Import Folly'' by Persuasive Games
Persuasive Games is a video game developer founded by Ian Bogost and Gerard LaFond in 2003. The company focuses on making advergames with strong opinions. Their first game, ''Howard Dean for Iowa'' is about trying to get Howard Dean to win the I ...
.
The ''Times Reader''
The ''Times Reader'' is a digital version of ''The New York Times'', created via a collaboration between the newspaper and Microsoft
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. ''Times Reader'' takes the principles of print journalism and applies them to the technique of online reporting, using a series of technologies developed by Microsoft and their Windows Presentation Foundation
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team. It was announced in Seattle
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in April 2006, by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
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Sulzberger was the chairman of The New York Times Company from 1997 to 2020, and the publisher of ''The New York Times'' from 1992 to 2018.
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, Bill Gates
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, and Tom Bodkin.
In 2009, the ''Times Reader'' 2.0 was rewritten in Adobe AIR. In December 2013, the newspaper announced that the ''Times Reader'' app would be discontinued as of January 6, 2014, urging readers of the app to instead begin using the subscription-only ''Today's Paper'' app.
Podcasts
''The New York Times'' began producing podcast
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s in 2006. Among the early podcasts were ''Inside The Times'' and ''Inside The New York Times Book Review''. Several of the ''Times''' podcasts were cancelled in 2012.
The ''Times'' returned to launching new podcasts in 2016, including ''Modern Love'' with WBUR-FM, WBUR. On January 30, 2017, ''The New York Times'' launched a news podcast, '' The Daily''. In October 2018, NYT debuted ''The Argument'' with opinion columnists Ross Douthat, Michelle Goldberg and David Leonhardt. It is a weekly discussion about a single issue explained from the left, center, and right of the political spectrum.
Non-English versions
Chinese-language
In June 2012, ''The New York Times'' introduced its first official foreign-language variant, cn.nytimes.com, a Chinese-language news site viewable in both Traditional Chinese characters, traditional and simplified Chinese characters. The project was led by Craig S. Smith on the business side and Philip P. Pan on the editorial side, with content created by staff based in Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong
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, though the server was placed outside of China to avoid censorship issues.
The site's initial success was interrupted in October that year following the publication of an investigative article by David Barboza about the finances of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's family. In retaliation for the article, the Chinese government blocked access to both ''nytimes.com'' and ''cn.nytimes''.com inside the China, People's Republic of China (PRC).
Despite Chinese government interference, the Chinese-language operations continued to develop, briefly adding a second site, cn.nytstyle.com, iOS and Android apps, and newsletters, some of which are accessible inside the PRC. The China operations also produce print publications in Chinese. Traffic to ''cn.nytimes.com'', meanwhile, has risen due to the widespread use of Virtual private network, VPN technology in the PRC and to a growing Chinese audience outside mainland China. ''The New York Times'' articles are also available to users in China via the use of mirror websites, apps, domestic newspapers, and social media. The Chinese platforms now represent one of ''The New York Times'' top five digital markets globally. The editor-in-chief of the Chinese platforms is Ching-Ching Ni.
''The New York Times en Español'' (Spanish-language)
Between February 2016 and September 2019, ''The New York Times'' launched a standalone Spanish language, Spanish-language edition, ''The New York Times en Español''. The Spanish-language version featured increased coverage of news and events in Latin America and Spain. The expansion into Spanish language news content allowed the newspaper to expand its audience into the Spanish speaking world and increase its revenue. The Spanish-language version was seen as a way to compete with the established El País newspaper of Spain, which bills itself the "global newspaper in Spanish." Its Spanish version has a team of journalists in Mexico City as well as correspondents in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Miami, and Madrid, Spain. It was discontinued in September 2019, citing lack of financial success as the reason.
In March 2013, ''The New York Times'' and National Film Board of Canada announced a partnership titled ''A Short History of the Highrise'', which will create four short documentaries for the Internet about life in high rise buildings as part of the NFB's ''Highrise (documentary), Highrise'' project, utilizing images from the newspaper's photo archives for the first three films, and user-submitted images for the final film. The third project in the ''Short History of the Highrise'' series won a Peabody Award in 2013.
TimesMachine
The TimesMachine is a World Wide Web, Web-based archive of scanned issues of ''The New York Times'' from 1851 through 2002.
Unlike ''The New York Times'' online archive, the TimesMachine presents scanned images of the actual newspaper. All non-advertising content can be displayed on a per-story basis in a separate PDF display page and saved for future reference. The archive is available to ''The New York Times'' subscribers, whether via home delivery or digital access.
Interruptions
Because of holidays, no editions were printed on November 23, 1851; January 2, 1852; July 4, 1852; January 2, 1853; and January 1, 1854.
Because of Strike action, strikes, the regular edition of ''The New York Times'' was not printed during the following periods:
* September 19, 1923, to September 26, 1923. An unauthorized local union strike prevented the publication of several New York papers, among them ''The New York Times''. During this period "The Combined New York Morning Newspapers," were published with summaries of the news.
* December 12, 1962, to March 31, 1963. Only a western edition was printed because of the 1962–63 New York City newspaper strike.
* September 17, 1965, to October 10, 1965. An international edition was printed, and a weekend edition replaced the Saturday and Sunday papers.
* August 10, 1978, to November 5, 1978. The multi-union 1978 New York City newspaper strike shut down the three major New York City newspapers. No editions of ''The New York Times'' were printed. Two months into the strike, a parody of ''The New York Times'' called ''Not The New York Times'' was distributed in the city, with contributors such as Carl Bernstein, Christopher Cerf (musician and television producer), Christopher Cerf, Tony Hendra and George Plimpton.
The newspaper's website was hacked on August 29, 2013, by the Syrian Electronic Army, a hacking group that supports the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The SEA managed to penetrate the paper's domain name registrar, Melbourne IT, and alter domain name system, DNS records for ''The New York Times'', putting some of its websites out of service for hours.
Controversies
Ukraine
Walter Duranty, who served as its Moscow bureau chief from 1922 through 1936, has been criticized for a series of stories in 1931 on the Soviet Union and won a Pulitzer Prize for his work at that time. Criticism rose for his denial of Soviet famine of 1932–1933, widespread famine, known in Ukraine as the Holodomor, in the early 1930s in which he summarized Soviet propaganda, and the ''Times'' published, as fact: "Conditions are bad, but there is no famine".[Conquest, R. Reflections on a Ravaged Century. W.W. Norton & Company. New York. 2000. pp 123,156]
In 2003, after the Pulitzer Board began a renewed inquiry, the ''Times'' hired Mark von Hagen, professor of Russian history at Columbia University, to review Duranty's work. Von Hagen found Duranty's reports to be unbalanced and uncritical, and that they far too often gave voice to Stalinism, Stalinist propaganda. In comments to the press he stated, "For the sake of The New York Times' honor, they should take the prize away." ''The Ukrainian Weekly'' covered the efforts to rescind Duranty's prize. The ''Times'' has since made a public statement and the Pulitzer committee has declined to rescind the award twice, stating that "Mr. Duranty's 1931 work, measured by today's standards for foreign reporting, falls seriously short. In that regard, the Board's view is similar to that of ''The New York Times'' itself."
World War II
Jerold Auerbach, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Program, Fulbright Lecturer, wrote in ''Print to Fit, The New York Times, Zionism and Israel, 1896–2016'' that it was of utmost importance to Adolph Ochs
Adolph Simon Ochs (March 12, 1858 – April 8, 1935) was an American newspaper publisher and former owner of ''The New York Times'' and ''The Chattanooga Times'' (now the ''Chattanooga Times Free Press'').
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, the first Jewish owner of the paper, that in spite of the persecution of Jews in Germany, ''The Times'', through its reporting, should never be classified as a "Jewish newspaper".
After Ochs' death in 1935, his son-in-law Arthur Hays Sulzberger became the publisher of ''The New York Times'' and maintained the understanding that no reporting should reflect on ''The Times'' as a Jewish newspaper. Sulzburger shared Ochs' concerns about the way Jews were perceived in American society. His apprehensions about judgement were manifested positively by his strong fidelity to the United States. At the same time, within the pages of ''The New York Times,'' Sulzburger refused to bring attention to Jews, including the refusal to identify Jews as major victims of Nazi genocide. Instead, many reports of Nazi-ordered slaughter identified Jewish victims as "persons." ''The Times'' even opposed the rescue of Jewish refugees.
On November 14, 2001, in ''The New York Times'' 150th-anniversary issue, in an article entitled "Turning Away From the Holocaust," former executive editor Max Frankel wrote:
And then there was failure: none greater than the staggering, staining failure of ''The New York Times'' to depict Hitler's methodical extermination of the Jews of Europe as a horror beyond all other horrors in World War II – a Nazi war within the war crying out for illumination.
According to Frankel, harsh judges of ''The New York Times'' "have blamed 'self-hating Jews' and 'anti-Zionists' among the paper's owners and staff." Frankel responded to this criticism by describing the fragile sensibilities of the Jewish owners of ''The New York Times'':
Then, too, papers owned by Jewish families, like ''The Times'', were plainly afraid to have a society that was still widely anti-Semitic misread their passionate opposition to Hitler as a merely parochial cause. Even some leading Jewish groups hedged their appeals for rescue lest they be accused of wanting to divert wartime energies.
At ''The Times'', the reluctance to highlight the systematic slaughter of Jews was undoubtedly influenced by the views of the publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (September 12, 1891December 11, 1968) was the publisher of ''The New York Times'' from 1935 to 1961. During that time, daily circulation rose from 465,000 to 713,000 and Sunday circulation from 745,000 to 1.4 million; the st ...
. He believed strongly and publicly that Judaism was a religion, not a race or nationality – that Jews should be separate only in the way they worshiped. He thought they needed no state or political and social institutions of their own. He went to great lengths to avoid having ''The Times'' branded a ''Jewish newspaper.'' He resented other publications for emphasizing the Jewishness of people in the news.
In the same article, Frankel quotes Laurel Leff, associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University, who in 2000 had described how the newspaper downplayed Nazi Germany's targeting of Jews for Holocaust, genocide.
November 1942 was a critical month for American Jews. After several months of delay, the U.S. State Department had confirmed already published information that Germany was engaged in the systematic extermination of European Jews. Newspaper reports put the death toll at one million and described the "most ruthless methods," including mass gassings at special camps.
Yet at the beginning of November 1942, Sulzberger lobbied U.S. government officials against the founding of a homeland for Jews to escape to. The Times was silent on the matter of an increase in U.S. immigration quotas to permit more Jews to enter, and "actively supported the British Government's restriction on legal immigration to Palestine even as the persecution of Jews intensified". Sulzberger described Jews as being of no more concern to Nazi Germany than Roman Catholic priests or Christian ministers, and that Jews certainly were not singled out for extermination.
Leff's 2005 book ''Buried by the Times'' documents the paper's tendency before, during, and after World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
to place deep inside its daily editions the news stories about the ongoing persecution and extermination of Jews, while obscuring in those stories the special impact of the Nazis' crimes on Jews in particular. Leff attributes this dearth in part to the complex personal and political views of Sulzberger, concerning Jewishness, antisemitism, and Zionism.
Accusations of liberal bias
In 2004, the newspaper's public editor Daniel Okrent
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said in an opinion piece that ''The New York Times'' did have a liberal bias in news coverage of certain social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage. He stated that this bias reflected the paper's cosmopolitanism, which arose naturally from its roots as a hometown paper of New York City, writing that the coverage of the ''Times''s Arts & Leisure; Culture; and the Sunday ''Times Magazine'' trend to the left.If you're examining the paper's coverage of these subjects from a perspective that is neither urban nor Northeastern nor culturally seen-it-all; if you are among the groups The Times treats as strange objects to be examined on a laboratory slide (devout Catholics, gun owners, Orthodox Jews, Texans); if your value system wouldn't wear well on a composite New York Times journalist, then a walk through this paper can make you feel you're traveling in a strange and forbidding world.
''Times'' public editor Arthur Brisbane wrote in 2012:When The Times covers a national presidential campaign, I have found that the lead editors and reporters are disciplined about enforcing fairness and balance, and usually succeed in doing so. Across the paper's many departments, though, so many share a kind of political and cultural progressivism — for lack of a better term — that this worldview virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times.
''The New York Times'' public editor
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(ombudsman
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) Elizabeth Spayd wrote in 2016 that "Conservatives and even many moderates, see in The Times a Red states and blue states, blue-state worldview" and accuse it of harboring a liberal bias. Spayd did not analyze the substance of the claim but did opine that the ''Times'' is "part of a fracturing media environment that reflects a fractured country. That in turn leads liberals and conservatives toward separate news sources." ''Times'' executive editor Dean Baquet stated that he does not believe coverage has a liberal bias:We have to be really careful that people feel like they can see themselves in ''The New York Times''. I want us to be perceived as fair and honest to the world, not just a segment of it. It's a really difficult goal. Do we pull it off all the time? No.
Jayson Blair plagiarism (2003)
In May 2003, ''The New York Times'' reporter Jayson Blair
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Blair publis ...
was forced to resign from the newspaper after he was caught plagiarism, plagiarizing and fabricating elements of his stories. Some critics contended that Blair's African Americans, race was a major factor in his hiring and in ''The New York Times'' initial reluctance to fire him.
Iraq War (2003–06)
The ''Times'' supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq. On May 26, 2004, more than a year after the war started, the newspaper asserted that some of its articles had not been as rigorous as they should have been, and were insufficiently qualified, frequently overly dependent upon information from Iraqi exiles desiring regime change.
The New York Times admitted "Articles based on dire claims about Iraq tended to get prominent display, while follow-up articles that called the original ones into question were sometimes buried. In some cases, there was no follow-up at all." The paper said it was encouraged to report the claims by "United States officials convinced of the need to intervene in Iraq".
''The New York Times'' was involved in a significant controversy regarding the allegations surrounding Iraq and weapons of mass destruction in September 2002. A front-page story was authored by Judith Miller which claimed that the Iraqi government was in the process of developing nuclear weapons was published.[Michael R. Gordon and Judith Miller (September 8, 2002)]
"U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts
, ''The New York Times'' Miller's story was cited by officials such as Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, and Donald Rumsfeld as part of a campaign to commission the Iraq War.[Michael Massing (February 26, 2004)]
"Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq"
, ''New York Review of Books'' One of Miller's prime sources was Ahmed Chalabi, an Iraqi expatriate who returned to Iraq after the U.S. invasion and held a number of governmental positions culminating in acting oil minister and deputy prime minister from May 2005 until May 2006. In 2005, negotiating a private severance package with Sulzberger, Miller retired after criticisms that her reporting of the lead-up to the Iraq War was factually inaccurate and overly favorable to the position of the George W. Bush administration, Bush administration, for which ''The New York Times'' later apologized.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
A 2003 study in the ''Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics'' concluded that ''The New York Times'' reporting was more favorable to Israelis than to Palestinians. A 2002 study published in the journal ''Journalism (journal), Journalism'' examined Middle East coverage of the Second Intifada over a one-month period in ''The New York'' ''Times'', The Washington Post, ''The'' ''Washington Post'' and the ''Chicago Tribune
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''. The study authors said that the ''Times'' was "the most slanted in a pro-Israeli direction" with a bias "reflected...in its use of headlines, photographs, graphics, sourcing practices, and lead paragraphs."
For its coverage of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, some (such as Ed Koch) have claimed that the paper is pro-Palestinian, while others (such as As'ad AbuKhalil) have claimed that it is pro-Israel. ''The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy'', by political science professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, alleges ''The New York Times'' sometimes criticizes Israeli policies but is not even-handed and is generally pro-Israel. In 2009, the Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized the newspaper for printing cartoons regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that were described as "hideously anti-Semitic".
Prime Minister of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a proposal to write an article for the paper on grounds of lack of objectivity. A piece in which Thomas Friedman commented that praise given to Netanyahu during a speech at the U.S. Congress was "paid for by the Israel lobby" elicited an apology and clarification from its author.
The 1619 Project
The 1619 Project, a long-form journalism project re-evaluating Slavery in the United States, slavery and its legacy in the United States led by investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, has received criticism from some historians.
In December 2019, twelve historians wrote to ''The New York Times Magazine
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'', expressing concern over what they alleged were inaccuracies and falsehoods fundamental to Hannah-Jones' reporting. The magazine's editor-in-chief, Jake Silverstein, responded to the historians' letter in an editorial, in which he called into question the historical accuracy of some of the letter's claims. In an article in ''The Atlantic'', historian Sean Wilentz responded to Silverstein, writing, "No effort to educate the public in order to advance social justice can afford to dispense with a respect for basic facts" and disputed the accuracy of Silverstein's defense of the project.
In September 2020, the ''Times'' updated the opening text of the project website to remove the phrase "understanding 1619 as our true founding" without accompanying editorial notes. Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote that the differences showed that the newspaper was backing away from some of the initiative's more controversial claims. The ''Times'' defended its practices, with Hannah-Jones emphasizing how most of the project's content has remained unchanged.
Reputation
The ''Times'' has developed a national and international "reputation for thoroughness". Among journalists, the paper is held in high regard; a 1999 survey of newspaper editors conducted by the ''Columbia Journalism Review'' found that the ''Times'' was the "best" American paper, ahead of ''The Washington Post
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'', ''The Wall Street Journal
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'', and ''Los Angeles Times
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''. The ''Times'' also was ranked in a 2011 "quality" ranking of U.S. newspapers by Daniel de Vise of ''The Washington Post''; the objective ranking took into account the number of recent Pulitzer Prizes won, circulation, and perceived Web site quality. A 2012 report in WNYC called the ''Times'' "the most respected newspaper in the world."
Nevertheless, like many other U.S. media sources, the ''Times'' has suffered from a decline in public perceptions of credibility in the U.S. in the early 21st century. A Pew Research Center survey in 2012 asked respondents about their views on credibility of various news organizations. Among respondents who gave a rating, 49% said that they believed "all or most" of the ''Times''s reporting, while 50% disagreed. A large percentage (19%) of respondents were unable to rate believability. The ''Times''s score was comparable to that of ''USA Today
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''. Media analyst Brooke Gladstone of WNYC's ''On the Media'', writing for ''The New York Times'', says that the decline in U.S. public trust of the mass media can be explained (1) by the rise of the polarized Internet-driven news; (2) by a decline in trust in U.S. institutions more generally; and (3) by the fact that "Americans say they want accuracy and impartiality, but the polls suggest that, actually, most of us are seeking affirmation."
Awards
''The New York Times'' has won 132 List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times, Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper. The prize is awarded for excellence in journalism in a range of categories.
It has also, , won three Peabody Awards and jointly received two. Peabody Awards are given for accomplishments in television, radio, and online media.
See also
* List of New York City newspapers and magazines
* List of The New York Times employees, List of ''The New York Times'' employees
* The New York Times Best Seller list, ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list
* The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge
* ''New York Times Index''
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