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''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publisher is A. G. Sulzberger. The ''Times'' is headquartered at The New York Times Building in Midtown Manhattan.

The ''Times'' was founded as the conservative ''New-York Daily Times'' in 1851, and came to national recognition in the 1870s with its aggressive coverage of corrupt politician Boss Tweed. Following the Panic of 1893, '' Chattanooga Times'' publisher Adolph Ochs gained a controlling interest in the company. In 1935, Ochs was succeeded by his son-in-law, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who began a push into European news. Sulzberger's son Arthur Ochs Sulzberger became publisher in 1963, adapting to a changing newspaper industry and introducing radical changes. ''The New York Times'' was involved in the landmark 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case ''New York Times Co. v. Sullivan'', which restricted the ability of public officials to sue the media for defamation.

In 1971, ''The New York Times'' published the ''Pentagon Papers'', an internal Department of Defense document detailing the United States's historical involvement in the Vietnam War, despite pushback from then-president Richard Nixon. In the landmark decision '' New York Times Co. v. United States'' (1971), the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment guaranteed the right to publish the ''Pentagon Papers''. In the 1980s, the ''Times'' began a two-decade progression to digital technology and launched nytimes.com in 1996. In the 21st century, it shifted its publication online amid the global decline of newspapers.

Currently, the ''Times'' maintains several regional bureaus staffed with journalists across six continents. It has expanded to several other publications, including ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''The New York Times International Edition'', and ''The New York Times Book Review''. In addition, the paper has produced several television series, podcasts—including '' The Daily''—and games through '' The New York Times Games''.

''The New York Times'' has been involved in a number of controversies in its history. Among other accolades, it has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize 132 times since 1918, the most of any publication.

History

1851–1896

''The New York Times'' was established in 1851 by ''New-York Tribune'' journalists Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones. The ''Times'' experienced significant circulation, particularly among conservatives; ''New-York Tribune'' publisher Horace Greeley praised the ''New-York Daily Times''. During the American Civil War, ''Times'' correspondents gathered information directly from Confederate states. In 1869, Jones inherited the paper from Raymond, who had changed its name to ''The New-York Times''. Under Jones, the ''Times'' began to publish a series of articles criticizing Tammany Hall political boss William M. Tweed, despite vehement opposition from other New York newspapers. In 1871, ''The New-York Times'' published Tammany Hall's accounting books; Tweed was tried in 1873 and sentenced to twelve years in prison. The ''Times'' earned national recognition for its coverage of Tweed. In 1891, Jones died, creating a management imbroglio in which his children had insufficient business acumen to inherit the company and his will prevented an acquisition of the ''Times''. Editor-in-chief Charles Ransom Miller, editorial editor Edward Cary, and correspondent George F. Spinney established a company to manage ''The New-York Times'', but faced financial difficulties during the Panic of 1893.

1896–1945

In August 1896, '' Chattanooga Times'' publisher Adolph Ochs acquired ''The New-York Times'', implementing significant alterations to the newspaper's structure. Ochs established the ''Times'' as a merchant's newspaper and removed the hyphen from the newspaper's name. In 1905, ''The New York Times'' opened Times Tower, marking expansion. The ''Times'' experienced a political realignment in the 1910s amid several disagreements within the Republican Party. ''The New York Times'' reported on the sinking of the ''Titanic'', as other newspapers were cautious about bulletins circulated by the Associated Press. Through managing editor Carr Van Anda, the ''Times'' focused on scientific advancements, reporting on Albert Einstein's then-unknown theory of general relativity and becoming involved in the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. In April 1935, Ochs died, leaving his son-in-law Arthur Hays Sulzberger as publisher. The Great Depression forced Sulzberger to reduce ''The New York Times''s operations, and developments in the New York newspaper landscape resulted in the formation of larger newspapers, such as the ''New York Herald Tribune'' and the ''New York World-Telegram''. In contrast to Ochs, Sulzberger encouraged wirephotography.

''The New York Times'' extensively covered World War II through large headlines, reporting on exclusive stories such as the Yugoslav coup d'état. Amid the war, Sulzberger began expanding the ''Times''s operations further, acquiring WQXR-FM in 1944—the first non-''Times'' investment since the Jones era—and established a fashion show in Times Hall. Despite reductions as a result of conscription, ''The New York Times'' retained the largest journalism staff of any newspaper. The ''Times''s print edition became available internationally during the war through the Army & Air Force Exchange Service; ''The New York Times Overseas Weekly'' later became available in Japan through ''The Asahi Shimbun'' and in Germany through the '' Frankfurter Zeitung''. The international edition would develop into a separate newspaper. Journalist William L. Laurence publicized the atomic bomb race between the United States and Germany, resulting in the Federal Bureau of Investigation seizing copies of the ''Times''. The United States government recruited Laurence to document the Manhattan Project in April 1945. Laurence became the only witness of the Manhattan Project, a detail realized by employees of ''The New York Times'' following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

1945–1998

Following World War II, ''The New York Times'' continued to expand. The ''Times'' was subject to investigations from the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, a McCarthyist subcommittee that investigated purported communism from within press institutions. Arthur Hays Sulzberger's decision to dismiss a copyreader who had pleaded the Fifth Amendment drew ire from within the ''Times'' and from external organizations. In April 1961, Sulzberger resigned, appointing his son-in-law, The New York Times Company president Orvil Dryfoos. Under Dryfoos, ''The New York Times'' established a newspaper based in Los Angeles. In 1962, the implementation of automated printing presses in response to increasing costs mounted fears over technological unemployment. The New York Typographical Union staged a strike in December, altering the media consumption of New Yorkers. The strike left New York with three remaining newspapers—the ''Times'', the ''Daily News'', and the ''New York Post''—by its conclusion in March 1963. In May, Dryfoos died of a heart ailment. Following weeks of ambiguity, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger became ''The New York Times''s publisher.

Technological advancements leveraged by newspapers such as the ''Los Angeles Times'' and improvements in coverage from ''The Washington Post'' and ''The Wall Street Journal'' necessitated adaptations to nascent computing. ''The New York Times'' published "Heed Their Rising Voices" in 1960, a full-page advertisement purchased by supporters of Martin Luther King Jr. criticizing law enforcement in Montgomery, Alabama for their response to the civil rights movement. Montgomery Public Safety commissioner L. B. Sullivan sued the ''Times'' for defamation. In ''New York Times Co. v. Sullivan'' (1964), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the verdict in Alabama county court and the Supreme Court of Alabama violated the First Amendment. The decision is considered to be landmark. After financial losses, ''The New York Times'' ended its international edition, acquiring a stake in the '' Paris Herald Tribune'', forming the ''International Herald Tribune''. The ''Times'' initially published the ''Pentagon Papers'', facing opposition from then-president Richard Nixon. The Supreme Court ruled in ''The New York Times''s favor in '' New York Times Co. v. United States'' (1971), allowing the ''Times'' and ''The Washington Post'' to publish the papers.

''The New York Times'' remained cautious in its initial coverage of the Watergate scandal. As Congress began investigating the scandal, the ''Times'' furthered its coverage, publishing details on the Huston Plan, alleged wiretapping of reporters and officials, and testimony from James W. McCord Jr. that the Committee for the Re-Election of the President paid the conspirators off. The exodus of readers to suburban New York newspapers, such as ''Newsday'' and Gannett papers, adversely affected ''The New York Times''s circulation. Contemporary newspapers balked at additional sections; ''Time'' devoted a cover for its criticism and ''New York'' wrote that the ''Times'' was engaging in "middle-class self-absorption". ''The New York Times'', the ''Daily News'', and the ''New York Post'' were the subject of a strike in 1978, allowing emerging newspapers to leverage halted coverage. The ''Times'' deliberately avoided coverage of the AIDS epidemic, running its first front-page article in May 1983. Max Frankel's editorial coverage of the epidemic, with mentions of anal intercourse, contrasted with then-executive editor A. M. Rosenthal's puritan approach, intentionally avoiding descriptions of the luridity of gay venues.

Following years of waning interest in ''The New York Times'', Sulzberger resigned in January 1992, appointing his son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., as publisher. The Internet represented a generational shift within the ''Times''; Sulzberger, who negotiated The New York Times Company's acquisition of ''The Boston Globe'' in 1993, derided the Internet, while his son expressed antithetical views. @times appeared on America Online's website in May 1994 as an extension of ''The New York Times'', featuring news articles, film reviews, sports news, and business articles. Despite opposition, several employees of the ''Times'' had begun to access the Internet. The online success of publications that traditionally co-existed with the ''Times''—such as America Online, Yahoo, and CNN—and the expansion of websites such as Monster.com and Craigslist that threatened ''The New York Times''s classified advertisement model increased efforts to develop a website. nytimes.com debuted on January 19 and was formally announced three days later. The ''Times'' published domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski's essay '' Industrial Society and Its Future'' in 1995, contributing to his arrest after his brother David recognized the essay's penmanship.

1998–present

Following the establishment of nytimes.com, ''The New York Times'' retained its journalistic hesitancy under executive editor Joseph Lelyveld, refusing to publish an article reporting on the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal from Drudge Report. nytimes.com editors conflicted with print editors on several occasions, including wrongfully naming security guard Richard Jewell as the suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing and covering the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in greater detail than the print edition. The New York Times Electronic Media Company was adversely affected by the dot-com crash. The ''Times'' extensively covered the September 11 attacks. The following day's print issue contained sixty-six articles, the work of over three hundred dispatched reporters. Journalist Judith Miller was the recipient of a package containing a white powder during the 2001 anthrax attacks, furthering anxiety within ''The New York Times''. In September 2002, Miller and military correspondent Michael R. Gordon wrote an article for the ''Times'' claiming that Iraq had purchased aluminum tubes. The article was cited by then-president George W. Bush to claim that Iraq was constructing weapons of mass destruction; the theoretical use of aluminum tubes to produce nuclear material was speculation. In March 2003, the United States invaded Iraq, beginning the Iraq War.

''The New York Times'' attracted controversy after thirty-six articles from journalist Jayson Blair were discovered to be plagiarized. Criticism over then-executive editor Howell Raines and then-managing editor Gerald M. Boyd mounted following the scandal, culminating in a town hall in which a deputy editor criticized Raines for failing to question Blair's sources in article he wrote on the D.C. sniper attacks. In June 2003, Raines and Boyd resigned. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. appointed Bill Keller as executive editor. Miller continued to report on the Iraq War as a journalistic embed covering the country's weapons of mass destruction program. Keller and then-Washington bureau chief Jill Abramson unsuccessfully attempted to subside criticism. Conservative media criticized the ''Times'' over its coverage of missing explosives from the Al Qa'qaa weapons facility. An article in December 2005 disclosing warrantless surveillance by the National Security Agency contributed to further criticism from the George W. Bush administration and the Senate's refusal to renew the Patriot Act. In the Plame affair, a Central Intelligence Agency inquiry found that Miller had become aware of Valerie Plame's identity through then-vice president Dick Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby, resulting in Miller's resignation.

During the Great Recession, ''The New York Times'' suffered significant fiscal difficulties as a consequence of the subprime mortgage crisis and a decline in classified advertising. Exacerbated by Rupert Murdoch's revitalization of ''The Wall Street Journal'' through his acquisition of Dow Jones & Company, The New York Times Company began enacting measures to reduce the newsroom budget. The company was forced to borrow $250 million (equivalent to $ million in ) from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim and fired over one hundred employees by 2010. nytimes.com's coverage of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, resulting in the resignation of then-New York governor Eliot Spitzer, furthered the legitimacy of the website as a journalistic medium. The ''Times''s economic downturn renewed discussions of an online paywall; ''The New York Times'' implemented a paywall in March 2011. Abramson succeeded Keller, continuing her characteristic investigations into corporate and government malfeasance into the ''Times''s coverage. Following conflicts with newly appointed chief executive Mark Thompson's ambitions, Abramson was dismissed by Sulzberger Jr., who named Dean Baquet as her replacement.

Leading up to the 2016 presidential election, ''The New York Times'' elevated the Hillary Clinton email controversy into a national issue. Donald Trump's upset victory contributed to an increase in subscriptions to the ''Times''. ''The New York Times'' experienced unprecedented indignation from Trump, who referred to publications such as the ''Times'' as "enemies of the people" at the Conservative Political Action Conference and tweeted his disdain for the newspaper and CNN. In October 2017, ''The New York Times'' published an article by journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey alleging that dozens of women had accused film producer and The Weinstein Company co-chairman Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct. The investigation resulted in Weinstein's resignation and conviction, precipitated the Weinstein effect, and served as a catalyst for the #MeToo movement. The New York Times Company vacated the public editor position and eliminated the copy desk in November. Sulzberger Jr. announced his resignation in December 2017, appointing his son, A. G. Sulzberger, as publisher.

Trump's relationship—equally diplomatic and negative—marked Sulzberger's tenure. In September 2018, ''The New York Times'' published " I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration", an anonymous essay by a self-described Trump administration official later revealed to be Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor. The animosity—which extended to nearly three hundred instances of Trump disparaging the ''Times'' by May 2019—culminated in Trump ordering federal agencies to cancel their subscriptions to ''The New York Times'' and ''The Washington Post'' in October 2019. Trump's tax returns have been the subject of three separate investigations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the ''Times'' began implementing data services and graphs. On May 23, 2020, ''The New York Times''s front page solely featured '' U.S. Deaths Near 100,000, An Incalculable Loss'', a subset of the 100,000 people in the United States who died of COVID-19, the first time that the ''Times''s front page lacked images since they were introduced. Since 2020, ''The New York Times'' has focused on broader diversification, developing online games and producing television series. The New York Times Company acquired ''The Athletic'' in January 2022.

Organization

Management

Since 1896, ''The New York Times'' has been published by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, having previously been published by Henry Jarvis Raymond until 1869 and by George Jones until 1896. Adolph Ochs published the ''Times'' until his death in 1935, when he was succeeded by his son-in-law, Arthur Hays Sulzberger. Sulzberger was publisher until 1961 and was succeeded by Orvil Dryfoos, his son-in-law, who served in the position until his death in 1963. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger succeeded Dryfoos until his resignation in 1992. His son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., served as publisher until 2018. ''The New York Times''s current publisher is A. G. Sulzberger, Sulzberger Jr.'s son. As of 2023, the ''Times''s executive editor is Joseph Kahn and the paper's managing editors are Marc Lacey and Carolyn Ryan, having been appointed in June 2022. ''The New York Times''s deputy managing editors are Sam Dolnick, Monica Drake, and Steve Duenes, and the paper's assistant managing editors are Matthew Ericson, Jonathan Galinsky, Hannah Poferl, Sam Sifton, Karron Skog, and Michael Slackman.

''The New York Times'' is owned by The New York Times Company, a publicly traded company. The New York Times Company, in addition to the ''Times'', owns '' Wirecutter'', ''The Athletic'', The New York Times Cooking, and The New York Times Games, and acquired Serial Productions and Audm. The New York Times Company holds undisclosed minority investments in multiple other businesses, and formerly owned ''The Boston Globe'' and several radio and television stations. The New York Times Company is majority-owned by the Ochs-Sulzberger family through elevated shares in the company's dual-class stock structure held largely in a trust, in effect since the 1950s; as of 2022, the family holds ninety-five percent of The New York Times Company's Class B shares, allowing it to elect seventy percent of the company's board of directors. Class A shareholders have restrictive voting rights. As of 2023, The New York Times Company's chief executive is Meredith Kopit Levien, the company's former chief operating officer who was appointed in September 2020.

Journalists

As of March 2023, The New York Times Company employs 5,800 individuals, including 1,700 journalists according to deputy managing editor Sam Dolnick. Journalists for ''The New York Times'' may not run for public office, provide financial support to political candidates or causes, endorse candidates, or demonstrate public support for causes or movements. Journalists are subject to the guidelines established in "Ethical Journalism" and "Guidelines on Integrity". According to the former, ''Times'' journalists must abstain from using sources with a personal relationship to them and must not accept reimbursements or inducements from individuals who may be written about in ''The New York Times'', with exceptions for gifts of nominal value. The latter requires attribution and exact quotations, though exceptions are made for linguistic anomalies. Staff writers are expected to ensure the veracity of all written claims, but may delegate researching obscure facts to the research desk. In March 2021, the ''Times'' established a committee to avoid journalistic conflicts of interest with work written for ''The New York Times'', following columnist David Brooks's resignation from the Aspen Institute for his undisclosed work on the initiative Weave.

Editorial board

''The New York Times'' editorial board was established in 1896 by Adolph Ochs. With the opinion department, the editorial board is independent of the newsroom. Then-editor-in-chief Charles Ransom Miller served as opinion editor from 1883 until his death in 1922. Rollo Ogden succeeded Miller until his death in 1937. From 1937 to 1938, John Huston Finley served as opinion editor; in a prearranged plan, Charles Merz succeeded Finley. Merz served in the position until his retirement in 1961. John Bertram Oakes served as opinion editor from 1961 to 1976, when then-publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger appointed Max Frankel. Frankel served in the position until 1986, when he was appointed as executive editor. Jack Rosenthal was the opinion editor from 1986 to 1993. Howell Raines succeeded Rosenthal until 2001, when he was made executive editor. Gail Collins succeeded Raines until her resignation in 2006. From 2007 to 2016, Andrew Rosenthal was the opinion editor. James Bennet succeeded Rosenthal until his resignation in 2020. , the editorial board comprises thirteen opinion writers. ''The New York Times''s opinion editor is Kathleen Kingsbury and the deputy opinion editor is Patrick Healy.

''The New York Times''s editorial board was initially opposed to liberal beliefs, opposing women's suffrage in 1900 and 1914. The editorial board began to espouse progressive beliefs during Oakes' tenure, conflicting with the Ochs-Sulzberger family, of which Oakes was a member as Adolph Ochs's nephew; in 1976, Oakes publicly disagreed with Sulzberger's endorsement of Daniel Patrick Moynihan over Bella Abzug in the 1976 Senate Democratic primaries in a letter sent from Martha's Vineyard. Under Rosenthal, the editorial board took positions supporting assault weapons legislation and the legalization of marijuana, but publicly criticized the Obama administration over its portrayal of terrorism. In presidential elections, ''The New York Times'' has endorsed a total of twelve Republican candidates and thirty-two Democratic candidates, and has endorsed the Democrat in every election since 1960. With the exception of Wendell Willkie, Republicans endorsed by the ''Times'' have won the presidency. In 2016, the editorial board issued an anti-endorsement against Donald Trump for the first time in its history. In February 2020, the editorial board reduced its presence from several editorials each day to occasional editorials for events deemed particularly significant. Since August 2024, the board no longer endorses candidates in local or congressional races in New York.

Unionization

Since 1940, editorial, media, and technology workers of ''The New York Times'' have been represented by the New York Times Guild. The Times Guild, along with the Times Tech Guild, are represented by the NewsGuild-CWA. In 1940, Arthur Hays Sulzberger was called upon by the National Labor Relations Board amid accusations that he had discouraged Guild membership in the ''Times''. Over the next few years, the Guild would ratify several contracts, expanding to editorial and news staff in 1942 and maintenance workers in 1943. The New York Times Guild has walked out several times in its history, including for six and a half hours in 1981 and in 2017, when copy editors and reporters walked out at lunchtime in response to the elimination of the copy desk. On December 7, 2022, the union held a one-day strike, the first interruption to ''The New York Times'' since 1978. The New York Times Guild reached an agreement in May 2023 to increase minimum salaries for employees and a retroactive bonus. The Times Tech Guild is the largest technology union with collective bargaining rights in the United States. The guild held a second strike beginning on November 4, 2024, threatening the ''Times''s coverage of the 2024 United States presidential election.

Content

Circulation

As of August 2024, ''The New York Times'' has 10.8 million subscribers, with 10.2 million online subscribers and 600,000 print subscribers, the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States behind ''The Wall Street Journal''. The New York Times Company intends to have fifteen million subscribers by 2027. The ''Times''s shift towards subscription-based revenue with the debut of an online paywall in 2011 contributed to subscription revenue exceeding advertising revenue the following year, furthered by the 2016 presidential election and Donald Trump. In 2022, '' Vox'' wrote that ''The New York Times''s subscribers skew "older, richer, whiter, and more liberal"; to reflect the general population of the United States, the ''Times'' has attempted to alter its audience by acquiring ''The Athletic'', investing in verticals such as ''The New York Times Games'', and beginning a marketing campaign showing diverse subscribers to the ''Times''. The New York Times Company chief executive Meredith Kopit Levien stated that the average age of subscribers has remained constant.

Newsletters

In October 2001, ''The New York Times'' began publishing ''DealBook'', a financial newsletter edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin. The ''Times'' had intended to publish the newsletter in September, but delayed its debut following the September 11 attacks. A website for ''DealBook'' was established in March 2006. ''The New York Times'' began shifting towards ''DealBook'' as part of the newspaper's financial coverage in November 2010 with a renewed website and a presence in the ''Times''s print edition. In 2011, the ''Times'' began hosting the DealBook Summit, an annual conference hosted by Sorkin. During the COVID-19 pandemic, ''The New York Times'' hosted the DealBook Online Summit in 2020 and 2021. The 2022 DealBook Summit featured—among other speakers—former vice president Mike Pence and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, culminating in an interview with former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried; FTX had filed for bankruptcy several weeks prior. The 2023 DealBook Summit's speakers included vice president Kamala Harris, Israeli president Isaac Herzog, and businessman Elon Musk.

In June 2010, ''The New York Times'' licensed the political blog ''FiveThirtyEight'' in a three-year agreement. The blog, written by Nate Silver, had garnered attention during the 2008 presidential election for predicting the elections in forty-nine of fifty states. ''FiveThirtyEight'' appeared on nytimes.com in August. According to Silver, several offers were made for the blog; Silver wrote that a merger of unequals must allow for editorial sovereignty and resources from the acquirer, comparing himself to Groucho Marx. According to ''The New Republic'', ''FiveThirtyEight'' drew as much as a fifth of the traffic to nytimes.com during the 2012 presidential election. In July 2013, ''FiveThirtyEight'' was sold to ESPN. In an article following Silver's exit, public editor Margaret Sullivan wrote that he was disruptive to the ''Times''s culture for his perspective on probability-based predictions and scorn for polling—having stated that punditry is "fundamentally useless", comparing him to Billy Beane, who implemented sabermetrics in baseball. According to Sullivan, his work was criticized by several notable political journalists.

''The New Republic'' obtained a memo in November 2013 revealing then-Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt's ambitions to establish a data-driven newsletter with presidential historian Michael Beschloss, graphic designer Amanda Cox, economist Justin Wolfers, and ''The New Republic'' journalist Nate Cohn. By March, Leonhardt had amassed fifteen employees from within ''The New York Times''; the newsletter's staff included individuals who had created the ''Times''s dialect quiz, fourth down analyzer, and a calculator for determining buying or renting a home. ''The Upshot'' debuted in April 2014. ''Fast Company'' reviewed an article about Illinois Secure Choice—a state-funded retirement saving system—as "neither a terse news item, nor a formal financial advice column, nor a politically charged response to economic policy", citing its informal and neutral tone. ''The Upshot'' developed "the needle" for the 2016 presidential election and 2020 presidential elections, a thermometer dial displaying the probability of a candidate winning. In January 2016, Cox was named editor of ''The Upshot''. Kevin Quealy was named editor in June 2022.

Political positions

''The New York Times'' has been viewed as a liberal newspaper. An analysis by Pew Research Center in October 2014 placed the ''Times'' as ideologically liberal. According to an internal readership poll conducted by ''The New York Times'' in 2019, eighty-four percent of readers identified as liberal.

Crossword

In February 1942, ''The New York Times'' crossword debuted in ''The New York Times Magazine''; according to Richard Shepard, the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 convinced then-publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the necessity of a crossword.

Cooking

''The New York Times'' has published recipes since the 1850s and has had a separate food section since the 1940s. In 1961, restaurant critic Craig Claiborne published ''The New York Times Cookbook'', an unauthorized cookbook that drew from the ''Times''s recipes. Since 2010, former food editor Amanda Hesser has published '' The Essential New York Times Cookbook'', a compendium of recipes from ''The New York Times''. The ''Innovation Report'' in 2014 revealed that the ''Times'' had attempted to establish a cooking website since 1998, but faced difficulties with the absence of a defined data structure. In September 2014, ''The New York Times'' introduced NYT Cooking, an application and website. Edited by food editor Sam Sifton, the ''Times''s cooking website features 21,000 recipes as of 2022. NYT Cooking features videos as part of an effort by Sifton to hire two former ''Tasty'' employees from BuzzFeed. In August 2023, NYT Cooking added personalized recommendations through the cosine similarity of text embeddings of recipe titles. The website also features no-recipe recipes, a concept proposed by Sifton.

In May 2016, The New York Times Company announced a partnership with startup Chef'd to form a meal delivery service that would deliver ingredients from The New York Times Cooking recipes to subscribers; Chef'd shut down in July 2018 after failing to accrue capital and secure financing. ''The Hollywood Reporter'' reported in September 2022 that the ''Times'' would expand its delivery options to cooking kits curated by chefs such as Nina Compton, Chintan Pandya, and Naoko Takei Moore. That month, the staff of NYT Cooking went on tour with Compton, Pandya, and Moore in Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York City, culminating in a food festival. In addition, ''The New York Times'' offered its own wine club originally operated by the Global Wine Company. The New York Times Wine Club was established in August 2009, during a dramatic decrease in advertising revenue. By 2021, the wine club was managed by Lot18, a company that provides proprietary labels. Lot18 managed the Williams Sonoma Wine Club and its own wine club Tasting Room.

Archives

''The New York Times'' archives its articles in a basement annex beneath its building known as "the morgue", a venture started by managing editor Carr Van Anda in 1907. The morgue comprises news clippings, a pictures library, and the ''Times''s book and periodicals library. As of 2014, it is the largest library of any media company, dating back to 1851. In November 2018, ''The New York Times'' partnered with Google to digitize the Archival Library. Additionally, ''The New York Times'' has maintained a virtual microfilm reader known as TimesMachine since 2014. The service launched with archives from 1851 to 1980; in 2016, TimesMachine expanded to include archives from 1981 to 2002. The ''Times'' built a pipeline to take in TIFF images, article metadata in XML and an INI file of Cartesian geometry describing the boundaries of the page, and convert it into a PNG of image tiles and JSON containing the information in the XML and INI files. The image tiles are generated using GDAL and displayed using Leaflet, using data from a content delivery network. The ''Times'' ran optical character recognition on the articles using Tesseract and shingled and fuzzy string matched the result.

Content management system

''The New York Times'' uses a proprietary content management system known as Scoop for its online content and the Microsoft Word-based content management system CCI for its print content. Scoop was developed in 2008 to serve as a secondary content management system for editors working in CCI to publish their content on the ''Times''s website; as part of ''The New York Times''s online endeavors, editors now write their content in Scoop and send their work to CCI for print publication. Since its introduction, Scoop has superseded several processes within the ''Times'', including print edition planning and collaboration, and features tools such as multimedia integration, notifications, content tagging, and drafts. ''The New York Times'' uses private articles for high-profile opinion pieces, such as those written by Russian president Vladimir Putin and actress Angelina Jolie, and for high-level investigations. In January 2012, the ''Times'' released Integrated Content Editor (ICE), a revision tracking tool for WordPress and TinyMCE. ICE is integrated within the ''Times''s workflow by providing a unified text editor for print and online editors, reducing the divide between print and online operations.

By 2017, ''The New York Times'' began developing a new authoring tool to its content management system known as Oak, in an attempt to further the ''Times''s visual efforts in articles and reduce the discrepancy between the mediums in print and online articles. The system reduces the input of editors and supports additional visual mediums in an editor that resembles the appearance of the article. Oak is based on ProseMirror, a JavaScript rich-text editor toolkit, and retains the revision tracking and commenting functionalities of ''The New York Times''s previous systems. Additionally, Oak supports predefined article headers. In 2019, Oak was updated to support collaborative editing using Firebase to update editors's cursor status. Several Google Cloud Functions and Google Cloud Tasks allow articles to be previewed as they will be printed, and the ''Times''s primary MySQL database is regularly updated to update editors on the article status.

Style and design

Style guide

Since 1895, ''The New York Times'' has maintained a manual of style in several forms. ''The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage'' was published on the ''Times''s intranet in 1999.

''The New York Times'' uses honorifics when referring to individuals. With the ''AP Stylebook''s removal of honorifics in 2000 and ''The Wall Street Journal''s omission of courtesy titles in May 2023, the ''Times'' is the only national newspaper that continues to use honorifics. According to former copy editor Merrill Perlman, ''The New York Times'' continues to use honorifics as a "sign of civility". The ''Times''s use of courtesy titles led to an apocryphal rumor that the paper had referred to singer Meat Loaf as "Mr. Loaf". Several exceptions have been made; the former sports section and ''The New York Times Book Review'' do not use honorifics. A leaked memo following the killing of Osama bin Laden in May 2011 revealed that editors were given a last-minute instruction to omit the honorific from Osama bin Laden's name, consistent with deceased figures of historic significance, such as Adolf Hitler, Napoleon, and Vladimir Lenin. ''The New York Times'' uses academic and military titles for individuals prominently serving in that position. In 1986, the ''Times'' began to use Ms., and introduced the gender-neutral title Mx. in 2015. ''The New York Times'' uses initials when a subject has expressed a preference, such as Donald Trump.

''The New York Times'' maintains a strict but not absolute obscenity policy, including phrases. In a review of the Canadian hardcore punk band Fucked Up, music critic Kelefa Sanneh wrote that the band's name—entirely rendered in asterisks—would not be printed in the ''Times'' "unless an American president, or someone similar, says it by mistake"; ''The New York Times'' did not repeat then-vice president Dick Cheney's use of "fuck" against then-senator Patrick Leahy in 2004 or then-vice president Joe Biden's remarks that the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 was a "big fucking deal". The ''Times''s profanity policy has been tested by former president Donald Trump. ''The New York Times'' published Trump's ''Access Hollywood'' tape in October 2016, containing the words "fuck", "pussy", "bitch", and "tits", the first time the publication had published an expletive on its front page, and repeated an explicit phrase for fellatio stated by then-White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci in July 2017. ''The New York Times'' omitted Trump's use of the phrase " shithole countries" from its headline in favor of "vulgar language" in January 2018. The ''Times'' banned certain words, such as "bitch", "whore", and "sluts", from ''Wordle'' in 2022.

Headlines

Journalists for ''The New York Times'' do not write their own headlines, but rather copy editors who specifically write headlines. The ''Times''s guidelines insist headline editors get to the main point of an article but avoid giving away endings, if present. Other guidelines include using slang "sparingly", avoiding tabloid headlines, not ending a line on a preposition, article, or adjective, and chiefly, not to pun. ''The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage'' states that wordplay, such as "Rubber Industry Bounces Back", is to be tested on a colleague as a canary is to be tested in a coal mine; "when no song bursts forth, start rewriting". ''The New York Times'' has amended headlines due to controversy. In 2019, following two back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, the ''Times'' used the headline, "Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism", to describe then-president Donald Trump's words after the shootings. After criticism from ''FiveThirtyEight'' founder Nate Silver, the headline was changed to, "Assailing Hate But Not Guns".

Online, ''The New York Times''s headlines do not face the same length restrictions as headlines that appear in print; print headlines must fit within a column, often six words. Additionally, headlines must "break" properly, containing a complete thought on each line without splitting up prepositions and adverbs. Writers may edit a headline to fit an article more aptly if further developments occur. The ''Times'' uses A/B testing for articles on the front page, placing two headlines against each other. At the end of the test, the headlines that receives more traffic is chosen. The alteration of a headline regarding intercepted Russian data used in the Mueller special counsel investigation was noted by Trump in a March 2017 interview with ''Time'', in which he claimed that the headline used the word "wiretapped" in the print version of the paper on January 20, while the digital article on January 19 omitted the word. The headline was intentionally changed in the print version to use "wiretapped" in order to fit within the print guidelines.

Nameplate

The nameplate of ''The New York Times'' has been unaltered since 1967. In creating the initial nameplate, Henry Jarvis Raymond took as his model the British newspaper ''The Times'', which used a Blackletter style called Textura, popularized following the fall of the Western Roman Empire and regional variations of Alcuin's script, as well as a period. With the change to ''The New-York Times'' on September 14, 1857, the nameplate followed. Under George Jones, the terminals of the "N", "r", and "s" were intentionally exaggerated into swashes. The nameplate in the January 15, 1894, issue trimmed the terminals once more, smoothed the edges, and turned the stem supporting the "T" into an ornament. The hyphen was dropped on December 1, 1896, after Adolph Ochs purchased the paper. The descender of the "h" was shortened on December 30, 1914. The largest change to the nameplate was introduced on February 21, 1967, when type designer Ed Benguiat redesigned the logo, most prominently turning the arrow ornament into a diamond. Notoriously, the new logo dropped the period that had followed the word ''Times'' up until that point; one reader compared the omission of the period to "performing plastic surgery on Helen of Troy." Picture editor John Radosta worked with a New York University professor to determine that dropping the period saved the paper ().

Print edition

Design and layout

As of December 2023, ''The New York Times'' has printed sixty thousand issues, a statistic represented in the paper's masthead to the right of the volume number, the ''Times''s years in publication written in Roman numerals. The volume and issues are separated by four dots representing the edition number of that issue; on the day of the 2000 presidential election, the ''Times'' was revised four separate times, necessitating the use of an em dash in place of an ellipsis. The em dash issue was printed hundreds times over before being replaced by the one-dot issue. Despite efforts by newsroom employees to recycle copies sent to ''The New York Times''s office, several copies were kept, including one put on display at the Museum at The Times. From February 7, 1898, to December 31, 1999, the ''Times''s issue number was incorrect by five hundred issues, an error suspected by ''The Atlantic'' to be the result of a careless front page type editor. The misreporting was noticed by news editor Aaron Donovan, who was calculating the number of issues in a spreadsheet and noticed the discrepancy. ''The New York Times'' celebrated fifty thousand issues on March 14, 1995, an observance that should have occurred on July 26, 1996.

''The New York Times'' has reduced the physical size of its print edition while retaining its broadsheet format. ''The New-York Daily Times'' debuted at across. By the 1950s, the ''Times'' was being printed at across. In 1953, an increase in paper costs to () a ton increased newsprint costs to million () On December 28, 1953, the pages were reduced to . On February 14, 1955, a further reduction to occurred, followed by . On August 6, 2007, the largest cut occurred when the pages were reduced to , a decision that other broadsheets had previously considered. Then-executive editor Bill Keller stated that a narrower paper would be more beneficial to the reader but acknowledged a net loss in article space of five percent. In 1985, The New York Times Company established a minority stake in a million () newsprint plant in Clermont, Quebec through Donahue Malbaie. The company sold its equity interest in Donahue Malbaie in 2017.

''The New York Times'' often uses large, bolded headlines for major events. For the print version of the ''Times'', these headlines are written by one copy editor, reviewed by two other copy editors, approved by the masthead editors, and polished by other print editors. The process is completed before 8 p.m., but it may be repeated if further development occur, as did take place during the 2020 presidential election. On the day Joe Biden was declared the winner, ''The New York Times'' utilized a "hammer headline" reading, "Biden Beats Trump", in all caps and bolded. A dozen journalists discussed several potential headlines, such as "It's Biden" or "Biden's Moment", and prepared for a Donald Trump victory, in which they would use "Trump Prevails". During Trump's first impeachment, the ''Times'' drafted the hammer headline, "Trump Impeached". ''The New York Times'' altered the ligatures between the E and the A, as not doing so would leave a noticeable gap due to the stem of the A sloping away from the E. The ''Times'' reused the tight kerning for "Biden Beats Trump" and Trump's second impeachment, which simply read, "Impeached".

In cases where two major events occur on the same day or immediately after each other, ''The New York Times'' has used a "paddle wheel" headline, where both headlines are used but split by a line. The term dates back to August 8, 1959, when it was revealed that the United States was monitoring Soviet missile firings and when Explorer 6—shaped like a paddle wheel—launched. Since then, the paddle wheel has been used several times, including on January 21, 1981, when Ronald Reagan was sworn in minutes before Iran released fifty-two American hostages, ending the Iran hostage crisis. At the time, most newspapers favored the end of the hostage crisis, but the ''Times'' placed the inauguration above the crisis. Since 1981, the paddle wheel has been used twice; on July 26, 2000, when the 2000 Camp David Summit ended without an agreement and when Bush announced that Dick Cheney would be his running mate, and on June 24, 2016, when the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum passed, beginning Brexit, and when the Supreme Court deadlocked in '' United States v. Texas''.

''The New York Times'' has run editorials from its editorial board on the front page twice. On June 13, 1920, the ''Times'' ran an editorial opposing Warren G. Harding, who was nominated during that year's Republican Party presidential primaries. Amid growing acceptance to run editorials on the front pages from publications such as the ''Detroit Free Press'', ''The Patriot-News'', ''The Arizona Republic'', and ''The Indianapolis Star'', ''The New York Times'' ran an editorial on its front page on December 5, 2015, following a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, in which fourteen people were killed. The editorial advocates for the prohibition of "slightly modified combat rifles" used in the San Bernardino shooting and "certain kinds of ammunition". Conservative figures, including Texas senator Ted Cruz, ''The Weekly Standard'' editor Bill Kristol, '' Fox & Friends'' co-anchor Steve Doocy, and then-New Jersey governor Chris Christie criticized the ''Times''. Talk radio host Erick Erickson acquired an issue of ''The New York Times'' to fire several rounds into the paper, posting a picture online.

Printing process

Since 1997, ''The New York Times''s primary distribution center is located in College Point, Queens. The facility is and employs 170 people as of 2017. The College Point distribution center prints 300,000 to 800,000 newspapers daily. On most occasions, presses start before 11 p.m. and finish before 3 a.m. A robotic crane grabs a roll of newsprint and several rollers ensure ink can be printed on paper. The final newspapers are wrapped in plastic and shipped out. As of 2018, the College Point facility accounted for 41 percent of production. Other copies are printed at 26 other publications, such as ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', ''The Dallas Morning News'', ''The Santa Fe New Mexican'', and the ''Courier Journal''. With the decline of newspapers, particularly regional publications, the ''Times'' must travel further; for example, newspapers for Hawaii are flown from San Francisco on United Airlines, and Sunday papers are flown from Los Angeles on Hawaiian Airlines. Computer glitches, mechanical issues, and weather phenomena affect circulation but do not stop the paper from reaching customers. The College Point facility prints over two dozen other papers, including ''The Wall Street Journal'' and ''USA Today''.

''The New York Times'' has halted its printing process several times to account for major developments. The first printing stoppage occurred on March 31, 1968, when then-president Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he would not seek a second term. Other press stoppages include May 19, 1994, for the death of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and July 17, 1996, for Trans World Airlines Flight 800. The 2000 presidential election necessitated two press stoppages. Al Gore appeared to concede on November 8, forcing then-executive editor Joseph Lelyveld to stop the ''Times''s presses to print a new headline, "Bush Appears to Defeat Gore", with a story that stated George W. Bush was elected president. However, Gore held off his concession speech over doubts over Florida. Lelyveld reran the headline, "Bush and Gore Vie for an Edge". Since 2000, three printing stoppages have been issued for the death of William Rehnquist on September 3, 2005, for the killing of Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011, and for the passage of the Marriage Equality Act in the New York State Assembly and subsequent signage by then-governor Andrew Cuomo on June 24, 2011.

Online platforms

Website

The New York Times website is hosted at nytimes.com. It has undergone several major redesigns and infrastructure developments since its debut. In April 2006, ''The New York Times'' redesigned its website with an emphasis on multimedia. In preparation for Super Tuesday in February 2008, the ''Times'' developed a live election system using the Associated Press's File Transfer Protocol (FTP) service and a Ruby on Rails application; nytimes.com experienced its largest traffic on Super Tuesday and the day after.

Applications

The NYTimes application debuted with the introduction of the App Store on July 10, 2008. ''Engadget''s Scott McNulty wrote critically of the app, negatively comparing it to ''The New York Times''s mobile website. An iPad version with select articles was released on April 3, 2010, with the release of the first-generation iPad. In October, ''The New York Times'' expanded NYT Editors' Choice to include the paper's full articles. NYT for iPad was free until 2011. The ''Times'' applications on iPhone and iPad began offering in-app subscriptions in July 2011. The ''Times'' released a web application for iPad—featuring a format summarizing trending headlines on Twitter—and a Windows 8 application in October 2012.

Efforts to ensure profitability through an online magazine and a "Need to Know" subscription emerged in '' Adweek'' in July 2013. In March 2014, ''The New York Times'' announced three applications—NYT Now, an application that offers pertinent news in a blog format, and two unnamed applications, later known as NYT Opinion and NYT Cooking—to diversify its product laterals.

Podcasts

''The New York Times'' manages several podcasts, including multiple podcasts with Serial Productions. The ''Times''s longest-running podcast is ''The Book Review Podcast'', debuting as ''Inside The New York Times Book Review'' in April 2006.

''The New York Times''s defining podcast is '' The Daily'', a daily news podcast hosted by Michael Barbaro which debuted on February 1, 2017. Between March 2022 and March 2025, the approximately 30 minute programme was co-hosted with Sabrina Tavernise. Beginning in April 2025 Barbaro was joined by two new regular co-hosts, Natalie Kitroeff and Rachel Abrams.

''The Interview'' was launched in 2024 and is hosted weekly by David Marchese and Lulu Garcia-Navarro. Episodes typically last 40 to 50 minutes. Condensed versions of the interviews are published simultaneously in ''The New York Times Magazine''. Guests have included politicians, actors, influential experts, media figures and high-profile writers.

In October 2021, ''The New York Times'' began testing "New York Times Audio", an application featuring podcasts from the ''Times'', audio versions of articles—including from other publications through Audm, and archives from ''This American Life''. The application debuted in May 2023 exclusively on iOS for ''Times'' subscribers. New York Times Audio includes exclusive podcasts such as ''The Headlines'', a daily news recap, and ''Shorts'', short audio stories under ten minutes. In addition, a "Reporter Reads" section features ''Times'' journalists reading their articles and providing commentary.

Games

''The New York Times'' has used video games as part of its journalistic efforts, among the first publications to do so, contributing to an increase in Internet traffic; the publication has also developed its own video games. In 2014, ''The New York Times Magazine'' introduced ''Spelling Bee'', a word game in which players guess words from a set of letters in a honeycomb and are awarded points for the length of the word and receive extra points if the word is a pangram. The game was proposed by Will Shortz, created by Frank Longo, and has been maintained by Sam Ezersky. In May 2018, ''Spelling Bee'' was published on nytimes.com, furthering its popularity. In February 2019, the ''Times'' introduced ''Letter Boxed'', in which players form words from letters placed on the edges of a square box, followed in June 2019 by ''Tiles'', a matching game in which players form sequences of tile pairings, and ''Vertex'', in which players connect vertices to assemble an image. In July 2023, ''The New York Times'' introduced '' Connections'', in which players identify groups of words that are connected by a common property. In April, the ''Times'' introduced ''Digits'', a game that required using operations on different values to reach a set number; ''Digits'' was shut down in August. In March 2024, ''The New York Times'' released '' Strands'', a themed word search.

In January 2022, The New York Times Company acquired ''Wordle'', a word game developed by Josh Wardle in 2021, at a valuation in the "low-seven figures". The acquisition was proposed by David Perpich, a member of the Sulzberger family who proposed the purchase to Knight over Slack after reading about the game. ''The Washington Post'' purportedly considered acquiring ''Wordle'', according to '' Vanity Fair''. At the 2022 Game Developers Conference, Wardle stated that he was overwhelmed by the volume of ''Wordle'' facsimiles and overzealous monetization practices in other games. Concerns over ''The New York Times'' monetizing ''Wordle'' by implementing a paywall mounted; ''Wordle'' is a client-side browser game and can be played offline by downloading its webpage. ''Wordle'' moved to the ''Times''s servers and website in February. The game was added to the NYT Games application in August, necessitating it be rewritten in the JavaScript library React. In November, ''The New York Times'' announced that Tracy Bennett would be the ''Wordle''s editor.

Other publications

''The New York Times Magazine''

''The New York Times Magazine'' and '' The Boston Globe Magazine'' are the only weekly Sunday magazines following '' The Washington Post Magazine''s cancellation in December 2022.

''The New York Times International Edition''

''The New York Times in Spanish''

In February 2016, ''The New York Times'' introduced a Spanish website, ''The New York Times en Español''. The website, intended to be read on mobile devices, would contain translated articles from the ''Times'' and reporting from journalists based in Mexico City. The ''Times en Español''s style editor is Paulina Chavira, who has advocated for pluralistic Spanish to accommodate the variety of nationalities in the newsroom's journalists and wrote a stylebook for ''The New York Times en Español'' Articles the ''Times'' intends to publish in Spanish are sent to a translation agency and adapted for Spanish writing conventions; the present progressive tense may be used for forthcoming events in English, but other tenses are preferable in Spanish. The ''Times en Español'' consults the Real Academia Española and Fundéu and frequently modifies the use of diacritics—such as using an acute accent for the Cártel de Sinaloa but not the Cartel de Medellín—and using the gender-neutral pronoun ''elle''. Headlines in ''The New York Times en Español'' are not capitalized. The ''Times en Español'' publishes ''El Times'', a newsletter led by Elda Cantú intended for all Spanish speakers. In September 2019, ''The New York Times'' ended ''The New York Times en Español''s separate operations. A study published in ''The Translator'' in 2023 found that the ''Times en Español'' engaged in tabloidization.

''The New York Times in Chinese''

In June 2012, ''The New York Times'' introduced a Chinese website, , in response to Chinese editions created by ''The Wall Street Journal'' and the ''Financial Times''. Conscious to censorship in China, censorship, the ''Times'' established servers outside of China and affirmed that the website would uphold the paper's journalistic standards; the government of China had previously blocked articles from nytimes.com through the Great Firewall of China, Great Firewall, and the website was blocked in China until August 2001 after then-general secretary Jiang Zemin met with journalists from ''The New York Times''. Then-foreign editor Joseph Kahn assisted in the establishment of cn.nytimes.com, an effort that contributed to his appointment as executive editor in April 2022. In October, published an article detailing the wealth of then-premier Wen Jiabao's family. In response, the government of China blocked access to nytimes.com and cn.nytimes.com and references to the ''Times'' and Wen were censored on microblogging service Sina Weibo. In March 2015, a Mirror site, mirror of and the website for GreatFire were the targets for a government-sanctioned distributed denial of service attack on GitHub in March 2015, disabling access to the service for several days. Chinese authorities requested the removal of ''The New York Times''s news applications from the App Store in December 2016.

Awards and recognition

Awards

As of 2023, ''The New York Times'' has List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times, received 137 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any publication.

Recognition

''The New York Times'' is considered a newspaper of record in the United States. The ''Times'' is the largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States; as of 2022, ''The New York Times'' is the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States behind ''The Wall Street Journal''.

A study published in ''Science, Technology, & Human Values'' in 2013 found that ''The New York Times'' received more citations in academic journals than the ''American Sociological Review'', ''Research Policy (journal), Research Policy'', or the ''Harvard Law Review''. With sixteen million unique records, the ''Times'' is the third-most referenced source in Common Crawl, a collection of online material used in datasets such as GPT-3, behind Wikipedia and a United States patent database.

''The New Yorker''s Max Norman wrote in March 2023 that the ''Times'' has shaped mainstream English usage. In a January 2018 article for ''The Washington Post'', Margaret Sullivan stated that ''The New York Times'' affects the "whole media and political ecosystem".

''The New York Times''s nascent success has led to concerns over media consolidation, particularly amid the decline of newspapers. In 2006, economists Lisa George and Joel Waldfogel examined the consequences of the ''Times''s national distribution strategy and audience with circulation of local newspapers, finding that local circulation decreased among college-educated readers. The effect of ''The New York Times'' in this manner was observed in ''The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead'', the newspaper of record for Fargo, North Dakota. ''Axios (website), Axios'' founder Jim VandeHei opined that the ''Times'' is "going to basically be a monopoly" in an opinion piece written by then-media columnist and former ''BuzzFeed News'' editor-in-chief Ben Smith (journalist), Ben Smith; in the article, Smith cites the strength of ''The New York Times''s journalistic workforce, broadening content, and the expropriation of ''Gawker'' editor-in-chief Choire Sicha, ''Recode'' editor-in-chief Kara Swisher, and ''Quartz (publication), Quartz'' editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney. Smith compared the ''Times'' to the New York Yankees during their 1927 New York Yankees season, 1927 season containing Murderers' Row.

Controversies

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

''The New York Times'' has received criticism for its coverage of the Gaza war, and the paper has been accused of holding both an anti-Palestinian and an anti-Israeli bias. In April 2024, ''The Intercept'' reported that an internal memorandum from November 2023 instructed journalists to reduce using the terms "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" and to avoid using the phrase "occupied territory" in the context of Palestinian land, "Palestine" except in rare circumstances, and the term "refugee camps" to describe areas of Gaza despite recognition from the United Nations. A spokesperson from the ''Times'' stated that issuing guidance was standard practice. An analysis by ''The Intercept'' noted that ''The New York Times'' described Israeli deaths as a massacre nearly sixty times, but had only described Palestinian deaths as a massacre once.

In December 2023, ''The New York Times'' published an investigation titled "Screams Without Words, 'Screams Without Words': How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7", alleging that Hamas weaponized Sexual and gender-based violence in the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, sexual and gender-based violence during its 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, armed incursion on Israel. The investigation was the subject of an article from ''The Intercept'' questioning the journalistic acumen of Anat Schwartz, a filmmaker involved in the inquiry who had no prior reporting experience and agreed with a post stating Israel should "violate any norm, on the way to victory", doubting the veracity of the opening claim that Gal Abdush was raped in a timespan disputed by her family, and alleging that the ''Times'' was pressured by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America. ''The New York Times'' initiated an inquiry that received criticism from NewsGuild-CWA, NewsGuild of New York president Susan DeCarava for purported racial targeting; the ''Times''s investigation concluded in ambiguity, but found that journalistic material was handled improperly.

Critics, protesters, and journalists have charged that the newspaper's biased reporting in favor of Israel during the Gaza war amounts to complicity in and manufacturing consent for the Gaza genocide. An April 2024 internal memo by Susan Wessling and Philip Pan restricted journalists covering the Gaza war from using the words "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" in their reporting. Writer and editors have left the newspaper due to its coverage of events in Gaza.

Transgender people

''The New York Times'' has received criticism regarding its coverage of transgender people. When it published an opinion piece by Weill Cornell Medicine professor Richard A. Friedman called "How Changeable Is Gender?" in August 2015, '' Vox''s German Lopez criticized Friedman as suggesting that parents and doctors might be right in letting children suffer from severe dysphoria in case something changes down the line, and as implying that conversion therapy may work for transgender children. In February 2023, nearly one thousand current and former ''Times'' writers and contributors wrote an open letter addressed to standards editor Philip B. Corbett, criticizing the paper's coverage of transgender, Non-binary gender, non⁠-⁠binary, and gender-nonconforming people; some of the ''Times articles have been cited in state legislatures attempting to justify criminalizing gender-affirming care. Contributors wrote in the open letter that "the ''Times'' has in recent years treated gender variance, gender diversity with an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience and euphemistic, charged language, while publishing reporting on transgender youth, trans children that omits relevant information about its sources."

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