New York Times, The, is one of the world’s best-known newspapers. It is published daily in New York City and is distributed throughout the United States. The paper provides broad coverage of national and international news. The Times is also the nation’s leading reference newspaper. It has won more Pulitzer Prizes for journalism than any other newspaper.
The newspaper includes articles on national and international news, business, finance, technology, science, health, politics, and sports. The opinion page of The New York Times, featuring essays written by columnists and letters from experts and readers, is widely read.
In addition to its news bureaus in New York City and Washington, D.C., the Times has bureaus in several U.S. cities. The newspaper also has news bureaus in a number of cities outside the United States.
The New York Times Company publishes The New York Times and many other newspapers, including The International New York Times (formerly The International Herald Tribune). An electronic version of The New York Times is published at http://www.nytimes.com. Mobile versions of the Times are also available for smartphones and tablet computers. In 2011, the Times began charging readers for unlimited access to its electronic versions of the paper. The company also owns other websites.
The American politician and journalist Henry Jarvis Raymond and the American writer George Jones founded The New-York Daily Times in 1851. The paper was popular among serious readers who sought objective news coverage. In 1896, Adolph Simon Ochs, an American journalist, bought the paper. Its name was changed to The New York Times that same year. Ochs marketed his newspaper as an alternative to the popular tabloid papers of the time by claiming to publish only “the news that’s fit to print.” He avoided sensational stories and instructed his editors to publish news that was as free from prejudice as possible. Ochs also added many new features to the paper, including The New York Times Magazine on Sundays in the print version, and the Saturday Review of Books and Art (now called The New York Times Book Review). Today, The New York Times Book Review is a weekly supplement to the Sunday paper and is also sold separately.
See also Ochs, Adolph Simon ; Raymond, Henry Jarvis ; Sulzberger, Arthur Hays ; Sulzberger, Arthur Ochs .
