''The New York Times'' is an American daily
newspaper
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based in
New York City
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with a worldwide readership. Founded in 1851, the ''Times'' has since won
132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper,
and has long been regarded within the industry as a national "
newspaper of record
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".
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
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'' or ''NY Times'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership. Founded ...
, 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
Arthur Gregg Sulzberger (born August 5, 1980) is an American journalist and the chairman of The New York Times Company
The New York Times Company is an American mass media company that publishes ''The New York Times
''The New York Tim ...
and his father,
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. (born September 22, 1951) is an American journalist.
Sulzberger was the chairman of the The New York Times Company
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—the paper's publisher and the company's
chairman
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, respectively—are the fifth and fourth 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
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, Home, Travel, and other features. On Sundays, the ''Times'' is supplemented by the ''
Sunday ReviewSunday Review is the opinion section of ''The New York Times''. It contains columns by a number of regular contributors (such as David Brooks (journalist), David Brooks and Paul Krugman), and usually includes op-eds by the Editorial Board.
Reference ...
'' (formerly the ''Week in Review''), ''
The New York Times Book Review
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'', ''
The New York Times Magazine
''The New York Times Magazine'' is a Sunday magazine
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'', and ''
T: The New York Times Style Magazine''.
History
Origins

''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 (publisher), George Jones. He was a member of the New York State Assem ...

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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. However, 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
During the American Civil War
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, began on July 13, 1863. On "
Newspaper Row
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", across from
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, co-founder
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.

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
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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
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. However, the newspaper found itself in a financial crisis by the
Panic of 1893
The Panic of 1893 was an economic depression
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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
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'' or ''NY Times'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City with a ...
, the publisher of the ''
Chattanooga Times'', 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". The slogan has appeared 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 a jab at competing papers, 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
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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
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, ''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." 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
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telegraph
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transmission from a naval battle: a report of the destruction of the
Russian Navy
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, at the
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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. In 1920, during the
1920 Republican National Convention
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, 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.
Post-war expansion

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 sta ...
. 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
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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
The ''New York Herald Tribune'' was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966. It was created in 1924 when Ogden Mills Reid
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'' and ''
The Washington Post
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'' to publish the ''
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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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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 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)
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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
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, and offensive actions were taken by the
U.S. Marines well before the public was told about the actions, all while President
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had been promising not to expand the war. The document increased the
credibility gap for the
U.S. government
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, 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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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.
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, 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 sought another injunction. The
U.S. District court
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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''. 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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*World record
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enshrines an absolute
right to free speech
in London, 1974
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, many felt it a lukewarm victory, offering little protection for future publishers when claims of
national security
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Originally c ...
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.
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Sulzberger was the chairman of the The New York Times Company
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, 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
in 1855, taken in 1861 by Thomas Sutton (photographer), Thomas Sutton. The subject is a colored ribbon, usually described as a tartan ribbon.
photograph of William Willoughby Cole Verner, Col. Willoughby Verner by Sarah Acland (photographer) ...
, with the first color photograph on the front page appearing on October 16, 1997.
Digital era
Early digital content

''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
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. 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
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'', ''
The Wall Street Journal
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Periodical literature (also called a periodical publication or sim ...

'', 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 "
", 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 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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Conce ...

was reportedly investigating the attacks. The cybersecurity breaches have been described as possibly being related to
cyberattack
In computer
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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
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A political party is an organization that coordinates candidate
A candidate, or nominee, is the prospective reci ...

's "self-made" fortune and
tax avoidance
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A person (plural people or persons ...
, 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
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* Showtime (video), ''Showtime'' (video), a 1995 live concert video by Blur
Television Networks and channels
* Showtime Networks, ...
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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The service was init ...

.
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
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, 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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* Broadway Theatre (disambiguation)
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** Broadway (Manhattan), the street
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in 1904, in an area then called Longacre Square, that was later renamed
Times Square
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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
In the Gregorian calendar
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tradition of lowering a
, which was begun by the paper. The building is also known for its electronic
news ticker
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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
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The company publishes ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''Barron's (newspaper), Barron's'', ''MarketWatch'', ''Mansion Global'', ''Financial New ...
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 the borough 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
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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 practices used by the paper long restricted women in appointments to editorial positions. The newspaper's first general female reporter was
Jane Grant
Jane Grant (May 29, 1892 – March 16, 1972) was a New York City journalist who co-founded ''The New Yorker'' with her first husband, Harold Ross.
Life and career
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, 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
Hazing (American English
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. Because of her
gender
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A woman is a ...
, 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
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: "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
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said, "
fter World War II,I'm sure
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called her up and invited her to lunch. She never had to grovel for an appointment."
Covering world leaders' speeches after
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at the
National Press Club
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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. However, 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
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'', 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
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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 ''
'', Informs ''
The World'', 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
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asked the
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. Again however, "All the News That's Fit to Print," was found to be the best.
Organization

Meredith Kopit Levien
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Early life and education
Levien was born Meredith Kopit and raised in metropolitan Richmond, Virginia, the daugh ...
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
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Electronic may refer to:
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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
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. In 2021, the ''Times'' digital technology staff formed a union with NewsGuild, which the company declined to
voluntarily recognize
The National Labor Relations Board
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.
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
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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, 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 a former American journalist who worked for ''The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'' or ''NY Times'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readersh ...
affair. Public editors were:
Daniel Okrent
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(2003–2005),
Byron Calame (2005–2007),
Clark Hoyt (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
of ''The New York Times'' are typically
liberal
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in their position.
In mid-2004, the newspaper's then
public editor (
ombudsman
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),
Daniel Okrent
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"Quarters of the news editor", one of a group of four photos in the 1900 The Seattle Daily Times—Editorial Department".">The Seattle Times">The Seattle Daily Times—Edito ...
, 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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A spee ...
, 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). However, ''The New York Times'' did endorse incumbent
moderate Republican
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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
George Elmer Pataki (; born June 24, 1945) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 53rd governor of New York (1995–2006). An attorney by profession, Pataki was elected mayor of his hometown of Peekskill, New York, and went ...

for re-election in 2002.
Style
Unlike most U.S. daily newspapers, the ''Times'' relies on its own in-house
stylebook rather than
The Associated Press Stylebook
The ''AP Stylebook'', also known by its full name ''The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law'', is an American-English grammar style and usage guide created by American journalists working for or connected with the Associated Pre ...
. When referring to people, ''The New York Times'' generally uses
honorific
An honorific is a title that conveys esteem, courtesy, or respect for position or rank when used in addressing or referring to a person. Sometimes, the term "honorific" is used in a more specific sense to refer to an honorary academic title. It ...
s rather than unadorned last names (except in the sports pages, pop culture coverage, 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
CBS is an American
American(s) may refer to:
* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S ...

, 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
Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering
Suffering, or pain in a broad sense, may be an experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with the perception of harm or threat of harm in an individual. Suffering i ...

" 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
Fucked Up is a Canadian hardcore punk band from Toronto
Toronto is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,731,571 in 2016, it is the List of the 100 lar ...
, for example, completely avoided mention of the group's name. However, the ''Times'' has on occasion published unfiltered video content that includes
profanity
Profanity is a socially offensive use of language, which may also be called cursing, swearing, or expletives. Accordingly, profanity is language use that is sometimes deemed impolite, rude, or culturally
Culture () is an umbrella term wh ...

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
''Pussy'' is a used as a noun, an adjective, and—in rare instances—a verb in the English language. It has several meanings, as slang
Slang is vocabulary
A vocabulary, also known as a wordstock or word-stock, is a set of familiar wor ...

," among others, when reporting on the vulgar statements made by
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician
A politician is a person active in party politics
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidate
A candidate, or nominee, is the prospective reci ...

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
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typeface
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Lettering is an umbrella term
In linguistics
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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
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Imperial
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Imperial or The Imperial may also refer to:
Places
United States
* Imperial, California
* Imperial, Missouri
* Imperial, Nebraska
* Imperial, Pennsylvania
* Imperial, Texas
* ...
.
The newspaper is organized into three sections, including the magazine:
# News: Includes International, National,
Washington
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* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** Federal government of the United States (metonym)
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on Washingt ...
, Business, Technology, Science, Health, Sports, The
Metro
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Geography
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* A metropolitan area
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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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* Letter (alphabet), a written element of an alphabet
* Letterform, a typographic term for alphabetical letter shapes
* Rehearsal letter in an orchestral score
Communication
* Le ...
.
# Features: Includes Arts, Movies, Theater, Travel, NYC Guide, Food, Home & Garden, Fashion & Style,
Crossword
A crossword is a word puzzle
A puzzle is a game
with separate sliding drawer, from 1390–1353 BC, made of glazed faience, dimensions: 5.5 × 7.7 × 21 cm, in the Brooklyn Museum (New York City)
'', 1560, Pieter Bruege ...
, ''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
A political cartoon, a type of editorial cartoon, is a cartoon
A cartoon is a type of illustration, sometimes animated, typically in a non- realistic or semi-realistic style. The specific meaning has evolved over time, but the modern usage ...
s from other newspapers, ''The New York Times'' does not have its own staff
editorial cartoonist
An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws editorial cartoon
A political cartoon, a type of editorial cartoon, is a cartoon
A cartoon is a type of illustration, sometimes animated, typically i ...
, nor does it feature a
comics page
The comics page of a daily newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical
Periodical literature (also called a periodical publication or simply a periodical) is a category of Serial (publishing), serial published, publications that appear in a new e ...
or Sunday
comics
a medium
Medium may refer to:
Science and technology
Aviation
*Medium bomber, a class of war plane
*Tecma Medium, a French hang glider design
Communication
* Media (communication), tools used to store and deliver information or d ...

section.
From 1851 to 2017, ''The New York Times'' published around 60,000 print issues containing about 3.5million pages and 15million articles.
Like most other
American newspapers
American(s) may refer to:
* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the United States
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, people who self-id ...
, ''The New York Times'' has experienced a decline in
circulation
Circulation may refer to:
Science and technology
* Atmospheric circulation, the large-scale movement of air
* Circulation (physics), the path integral of the fluid velocity around a closed curve in a fluid flow field
* Circulatory system, a biolo ...
. Its printed weekday circulation dropped by percent to 540,000 copies from 2005 to 2017.
''International Edition''
''
The New York Times International Edition
225px, The front page of an issue of the ''International Herald Tribune'' before it was renamed the ''International New York Times''
''The New York Times International Edition'' is an English-language daily newspaper
A newspaper is a Pe ...
'' 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
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is ...

'' 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
The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system
An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical
Sociotechnical systems (STS) in organizational development is an approach to complex organizational ...
on January 22, 1996, "offering readers around the world immediate access to most of the daily newspaper's contents." The website had 555million pageviews in March 2005. The domain nytimes.com attracted at least 146million visitors annually by 2008 according to a
Compete.com
Compete.com was a web traffic
Web traffic is the amount of data sent and received by visitors to a website
A website (also written as web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name an ...
study. In March 2009, ''The New York Times'' website ranked 59th by number of unique visitors, with over 20million unique visitors, making it the most visited newspaper site with more than twice the number of unique visitors as the next most popular site.
, 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
Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27, 1959) is an American journalist and political commentator. A winner of two Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature and ...
and
Thomas Friedman
Thomas Loren Friedman (; born July 20, 1953) is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature and mus ...
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.
Falling print advertising revenue and projections of continued decline resulted in a "metered
paywall
A paywall is a method of restricting access to content (media), content, with a purchase or a subscription business model, paid subscription, especially news. Beginning in the mid-2010s, newspapers started implementing paywalls on their websites ...
" 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 Margaret M. Sullivan 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
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and
iPod Touch
The iPod Touch is a line of iOS
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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
Online advertising, also known as online marketing, Internet advertising, digital advertising or web advertising, is a form of marketing and advertising which uses the Internet to deliver promotion (marketing), promotional marketing messages to ...
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
New York University (NYU) is a private
Private or privates may refer to:
Music
* "In Private
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'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
reCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA system that enables web hosts to distinguish between human and automated access to websites. The original version asked users to decipher hard to read text or match images. Version 2 also asked users to decipher text or m ...
helped to digitize old editions of ''The New York Times''.
In 2010, the newspaper also launched an app for
Android
Android may refer to:
Science and technology
* Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human
* Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system
** Android (operating system)#Mascot, Unnamed Androi ...

smartphones, followed later by an app for
Windows Phone
Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued family of mobile operating system
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s.
Moreover, the ''Times'' was the first newspaper to offer a
video game#REDIRECT 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 Iowa ...
.
The ''Times Reader''
The ''Times Reader'' is a digital version of ''The New York Times'', created via a collaboration between the newspaper and
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation, multinational technology company, technology corporation which produces Software, computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best-know ...

. ''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
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a free and open-source graphical subsystem (similar to WinForms) originally developed by Microsoft for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications. WPF, previously known as "Avalon", was initial ...
team. It was announced in
Seattle
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in April 2006, by
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. (born September 22, 1951) is an American journalist.
Sulzberger was the chairman of the The New York Times Company
The New York Times Company is an American mass media company that publishes the ''The New York Tim ...
,
Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate
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, and
Tom Bodkin.
In 2009, the ''Times Reader'' 2.0 was rewritten in
Adobe AIR
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. 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''. However, several of the ''Times''
' podcasts were cancelled in 2012.
The ''Times'' returned to launching new podcasts in 2016, including ''Modern Love'' with
WBUR
WBUR-FM (90.9 FM) is a public radio
Public broadcasting involves radio
Radio is the technology of signaling and telecommunication, communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (H ...
. 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
Ross Gregory Douthat () (born 1979) is an American conservative
Conservatism is a Political philosophy, political and social philosophy promoting traditional social institutions. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to th ...
,
Michelle Goldberg
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and
David Leonhardt
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''The New York Times'' (''NYT'' or ''NY Times'') is an America ...
. It is a weekly discussion about a single issue explained from the left, center, and right of the
political spectrum
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.
Non-English versions
''The New York Times en Español'' (Spanish-language)
Between February 2016 and September 2019, ''The New York Times'' launched a standalone
Spanish-language
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edition, ''The New York Times en Español''. The Spanish-language version featured increased coverage of news and events in
Latin America
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and
Spain
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. 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
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According to the Office of Justification of Dissemination ...
newspaper of
Spain
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, which bills itself the "global newspaper in Spanish." Its Spanish version has a team of journalists in
Mexico City
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as well as correspondents in
Venezuela
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,
Brazil
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,
Argentina
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,
Miami
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, and
Madrid, Spain
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. It was discontinued in September 2019, citing lack of financial success as the reason.
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
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and
simplified Chinese characters
Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters
Chinese characters, also called ''hanzi'' (), are logogram
In a written language
A written language is the representation of a spoken or gestural language by ...
. 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
Shanghai (, , Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four Direct-administered municipalities of China, direct-administered municipalities of the China, People's Republic of China. The city is located on the sou ...

,
Beijing
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, 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
Wen Jiabao (born 15 September 1942), also spelled as Wen Chia-pao, is a retired Chinese politician who served as the sixth Premier
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's family. In retaliation for the article, the Chinese government blocked access to both ''nytimes.com'' and ''cn.nytimes''.com inside the
People's Republic of China
China (), officially the People's Republic of China (PRC; ), is a country in East Asia
East Asia is the eastern region of Asia
Asia () is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern Hemisphere ...

(PRC).
Despite Chinese government interference, the Chinese-language operations have continued to develop, adding a second site, cn.nytstyle.com,
iOS
iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware. It is the operating system that powers many of the company's mobile devices, including the iPhone and iPod Touch; the t ...

and
Android
Android may refer to:
Science and technology
* Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human
* Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system
** Android (operating system)#Mascot, Unnamed Androi ...

apps, and newsletters, all of which are accessible inside the PRC. The China operations also produce three print publications in Chinese. Traffic to ''cn.nytimes.com'', meanwhile, has risen due to the widespread use of
VPN
A virtual private network (VPN) extends a private network
In Internet networking, a private network is a computer network
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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 website
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s, apps, domestic newspapers, and
social media
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Religion
* Creation ''ex nihilo'', the concept that matter was created by God out of nothing
* Creation myth
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.
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.
In March 2013, ''The New York Times'' and
National Film Board of Canada
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary films ...
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
'' high-rise building in Kalasatama, Helsinki
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'' 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
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in 2013.
TimesMachine
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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
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. A multi-union 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
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,
Christopher Cerf,
Tony Hendra
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and
George Plimpton
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.
The newspaper's website was hacked on August 29, 2013, by the
Syrian Electronic Army
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, a hacking group that supports the government of Syrian President
. The SEA managed to penetrate the paper's
domain name registrar
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,
Melbourne IT
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, and alter
DNS
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records for ''The New York Times'', putting some of its websites out of service for hours.
Controversies
Walter Duranty's Holodomor coverage and Pulitzer
Walter Duranty
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, 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
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and won a Pulitzer Prize for his work at that time; however, he has been criticized for his denial of widespread famine, most particularly
Holodomor
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, a famine in Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s in which he summarized Russian 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
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, professor of Russian history at
Columbia University
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, 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
Stalinist
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propaganda
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. 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
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Founded by the Ukrainian National Association, and published continuously since October 6, 1933, archived copies o ...
'' 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, "...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 Fellow
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and
, 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
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'' or ''NY Times'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City with a ...
, 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
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Life and career
Frankel was born in Gera
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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
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' 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 sta ...
. 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
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, who in 2000 had described how the newspaper downplayed
Nazi Germany
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's targeting of
Jew
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s for
genocide
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.
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
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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
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A ...
, and
Zionism
Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת ''Tsiyyonut'' after ''Zion
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.
Accusations of liberal bias
In mid-2004, the newspaper's then-public editor
Daniel Okrent
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, wrote an
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in which he said that ''The New York Times'' did have a liberal bias in news coverage of certain social issues such as abortion and
same-sex marriage
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in Stockholm
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.
He stated that this bias reflected the paper's
cosmopolitanism
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, 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
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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 (
ombudsman
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) Elizabeth Spayd wrote in 2016 that "Conservatives and even many moderates, see in The Times a
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
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stated that he does not believe coverage has a liberal bias, however:
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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was forced to resign from the newspaper after he was caught
and fabricating elements of his stories. Some critics contended that
African-American
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Blair's 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
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. 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'' was involved in a significant controversy regarding the allegations surrounding
Iraq and weapons of mass destruction
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in September 2002. A front-page story was authored by
Judith Miller
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which claimed that the Iraqi government was in the process of developing
nuclear weapons
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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
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,
Colin Powell
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, and
Donald Rumsfeld
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as part of a campaign to commission the
Iraq War
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.
[Michael Massing (February 26, 2004)]
"Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq"
''New York Review of Books
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'' One of Miller's prime sources was
Ahmed Chalabi
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, an Iraqi
expatriate
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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
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with Sulzberger, Miller retired after criticisms that her reporting of the lead-up to the
Iraq War
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was factually inaccurate and overly favorable to the position of the
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
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'' examined Middle East coverage of the
Second Intifada
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over a one-month period in the ''Times'', ''Washington Post'' and ''Chicago Tribune''. 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
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, some (such as
Ed Koch
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The United States Ho ...
) have claimed that the paper is pro-Palestinian, while others (such as
As'ad AbuKhalil) have insisted that it is pro-Israel. ''
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
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'', by
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professors
John Mearsheimer
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and
Stephen Walt
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, alleges that ''The New York Times'' sometimes criticizes Israeli policies but is not even-handed and is generally pro-Israel. On the other hand, in 2009, the
Simon Wiesenthal Center
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has criticized ''The New York Times'' for printing cartoons regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that were described as "hideously
anti-Semitic
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".
Israeli Prime Minister
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...
Benjamin Netanyahu
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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 New York Times'' public editor
Clark Hoyt concluded in his January 10, 2009, column:
Though the most vociferous supporters of Israel and the Palestinians do not agree, I think ''The New York Times'', largely barred from the battlefield and reporting amid the chaos of war, has tried its best to do a fair, balanced and complete job—and has largely succeeded.
Reputation
The ''Times'' has developed a national and international "reputation for thoroughness" over time. Among journalists, the paper is held in high regard; a 1999 survey of newspaper editors conducted by the ''
Columbia Journalism Review
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'' 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 Prize#REDIRECT Pulitzer Prize
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s won, circulation, and perceived Web site quality.
A 2012 report in
WNYC
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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
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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
of WNYC's ''
On the Media
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'', 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
Pulitzer Prizes#REDIRECT Pulitzer Prize
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, 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
The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Foster Peabody, George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in ...
and jointly received two.
Peabody Awards are given for accomplishments in television, radio, and online media.
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List of controversies involving The New York Times
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# ''The Wall Street Journal
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''The New York Times'' Best Seller list
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The New York Times Building
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The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge
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New York Times Index
The ''New York Times Index'' is a printed reference work published since 1913 by ''The New York Times
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Curated collection of most pre-1923 issuesat
Online Books Page
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