The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in <a href="/facts/New_York_City/YlyvFmVC">New York City</a>. 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 <a href="/facts/Newspaper_of_record/ccA83WD6">newspapers of record</a>. As of 2023<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_New_York_Times&action=edit">[update]</a>, The New York Times had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the <a href="/facts/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_States/oaEBUng6">highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States</a>; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the Times the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following <a href="/facts/The_Wall_Street_Journal/9Pkf2cYK">The Wall Street Journal</a>, also based in New York City. The New York Times is published by <a href="/facts/The_New_York_Times_Company/3VRy0GLt">the New York Times Company</a>; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publisher is <a href="/facts/A._G._Sulzberger/pcSneHfg">A. G. Sulzberger</a>. The Times is headquartered at <a href="/facts/The_New_York_Times_Building/lPWIoKmU">The New York Times Building</a> in <a href="/facts/Midtown_Manhattan/vc7r8h51">Midtown Manhattan</a>.
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 <a href="/facts/William_M._Tweed/8vYQl3t7">William M. Tweed</a>. Following the <a href="/facts/Panic_of_1893/5DSBAVJ4">Panic of 1893</a>, <a href="/facts/Chattanooga_Times/3J5fHI6s">Chattanooga Times</a> publisher <a href="/facts/Adolph_Ochs/QpJ8ByjJ">Adolph Ochs</a> gained a controlling interest in the company. In 1935, Ochs was succeeded by his son-in-law, <a href="/facts/Arthur_Hays_Sulzberger/T9p7sXGG">Arthur Hays Sulzberger</a>, who began a push into European news. Sulzberger's son-in-law <a href="/facts/Arthur_Ochs_Sulzberger/0JXbxmCD">Arthur Ochs</a> became publisher in 1963, adapting to a changing newspaper industry and introducing radical changes. The New York Times was involved in the landmark 1964 <a href="/facts/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States/rJHothwW">U.S. Supreme Court</a> case <a href="/facts/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan/E535MG1y">New York Times Co. v. Sullivan</a>, which restricted the ability of public officials to sue the media for <a href="/facts/Defamation/uEe9LxeQ">defamation</a>.
In 1971, The New York Times published the <a href="/facts/Pentagon_Papers/s6Lx5RRA">Pentagon Papers</a>, an internal <a href="/facts/United_States_Department_of_Defense/dWAvf7e3">Department of Defense</a> document detailing the <a href="/facts/United_States_in_the_Vietnam_War/rr8sqUDg">United States's historical involvement</a> in the <a href="/facts/Vietnam_War/W0gfbGTE">Vietnam War</a>, despite pushback from then-president <a href="/facts/Richard_Nixon/HS8uXAoC">Richard Nixon</a>. In the landmark decision <a href="/facts/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_States/Lz1Nlo8f">New York Times Co. v. United States</a> (1971), the Supreme Court ruled that the <a href="/facts/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution/1hNSoIvG">First Amendment</a> 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, The New York Times has shifted its publication online amid the global <a href="/facts/Decline_of_newspapers/gtf20lgo">decline of newspapers</a>.
The Times has expanded to several other publications, including <a href="/facts/The_New_York_Times_Magazine/AQhGYeFC">The New York Times Magazine</a>, <a href="/facts/The_New_York_Times_International_Edition/v7Hc6L2v">The New York Times International Edition</a>, and <a href="/facts/The_New_York_Times_Book_Review/w5fjfE0v">The New York Times Book Review</a>. In addition, the paper has produced several television series, podcasts—including <a href="/facts/The_Daily_(podcast)/3hcFnctY">The Daily</a>—and games through <a href="/facts/The_New_York_Times_Games/3XNA5bkL">The New York Times Games</a>. The New York Times has been involved in <a href="/facts/List_of_controversies_involving_The_New_York_Times/rnwEVrgM">several controversies</a> in its history. The Times maintains several regional bureaus staffed with journalists across six continents, and has <a href="/facts/List_of_Pulitzer_Prizes_awarded_to_The_New_York_Times/HjSCfJPN">received</a> 137 <a href="/facts/Pulitzer_Prize/wD4PN6Xs">Pulitzer Prizes</a> as of 2023, the most of any publication, among other accolades.

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