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Correcting the Times' Reporting on the Top 1%
By Alan Reynolds
June 17, 2005

N.Y. Times Peddling New Doomsday Scenario
By Alan Reynolds
May 13, 2005

Times Fishes for Anti-DeLay Op-Ed
By Robert Novak
April 11, 2005

Times Wrong Again: Evidence That Lower Taxes Do Spur the Economy
By Lawrence Kudlow
April 7, 2005

The New York Times: What Jihad?
By Robert Spencer
February 28, 2005

Twisting the Proof
By PowerLineBlog.com
June 22, 2004

Gray Lady Sparks Karzai Story
By Bob Kohn
June 19, 2004

Another Disgrace at the New York Times
Power Line
June 19, 2004

The Liberals Who Cried "Didn't Do Enough"
By Michelle Malkin
April 14, 2004

Disregarding Iraqi Jewish History
By HonestReporting.com
August 1, 2003

Academic Jihad
By Deborah Passner
July 31, 2003

Slandered Again
By David Tell
July 30, 2003

All the News that's Fit to Print
By Bob Kohn
July 23, 2003

All the Scams that Fit
By Michelle Malkin
July 21, 2003

Troubled Times
By Bob Kohn
July 16, 2003

The Trouble with "Treason"
By David Horowitz
July 8, 2003

Duranty's Deception
By John Berlau
July 8, 2003

You Don't Say
By Ann Coulter
June 19, 2003

"New" Editor, Old Bias
By Jason Maoz
June 19, 2003

Shocking Silence
By Andrew Sullivan
June 19, 2003

The Times Not A-Changin'
By Dick Morris
June 18, 2003

Rooting Out Hamas?
By HonestReporting.com
June 18, 2003

Pulitzer-Winning Lies
By Arnold Beichman
June 13, 2003

True Grit
By Ann Coulter
June 12, 2003

Maureen the Mythmaker
By Paul Greenberg
June 12, 2003

Turmoil at the Times
Wall Street Journal Editorial
June 6, 2003

We Don't Care, Liberals
By Ann Coulter
June 5, 2003

The New York Times' Racism
By Tammy Bruce
May 28, 2003

Lies, The New York Times, and the Little Matter of Race
By Ann Coulter
May 22, 2003

The New York Times and the Left's War on Truth
By Spencer Warren
May 20, 2003

The Old Gray Liar
By Ann Coulter
May 15, 2003

L'affaire Blair
By Heather MacDonald
May 14, 2003

All the Hypocrisy That's Fit to Print
By Henry Mark Holzer
September 20, 2002

Killer Cowards
By David Harsanyi
July 26, 2002

Being Liberal Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
By Ann Coulter
February 7, 2002

Faulty Timeline and Partisan Sources at the New York Times
By Lee Green
July 27, 2001

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On September 18, 1851, Speaker of the New York State Assembly Henry J. Raymond and Albany banker George Jones began publishing The New York Daily Times, whose name they permanently changed to The New York Times on September 14, 1857. The founders' original intent was to publish the paper every morning except on Sundays, but during the Civil War they, like their competitors in the industry, began printing Sunday issues as well.

In a bold move in 1884, the Times decided to become a politically independent paper -- discontinuing its tradition of supporting only Republican candidates for elected office (and backing Democrat Grover Cleveland in that year's presidential election). As a result of this shift in policy, the Times initially experienced a decline in both income and circulation, but within a few years the paper had regained most of its lost readership.

In 1896, Chattanooga Times publisher Adolph Ochs acquired The New York Times and the following year he coined the paper's well-known slogan, "All The News That's Fit To Print." This motto was designed to distinguish the Times from such competing publications as the New York World and the New York Journal American, which were known for their sensationalist, scandal-mongering reporting, or yellow journalism. Under Ochs' leadership, The New York Times grew both in stature and circulation, establishing itself as a publication of international reach.

In 1904 the newspaper moved its headquarters to the Longacre Square section of 42nd Street in Manhattan, renaming the area "Times Square"; this location would become famous for its New Year's Eve tradition (begun in 1907) of lowering a lighted ball from the top of the Times building at the stroke of midnight. In 1913 the Times relocated to its current headquarters at 229 West 43rd Street. A new skyscraper that will serve as the paper's future base of operations is currently under construction at West 41st Street and 8th Avenue.

Today The New York Times is America's largest metropolitan newspaper and one of the most widely read dailies in the world, with a circulation (as of 2006) of approximately 1,142,464 copies on weekdays and 1,683,855 copies on Sundays. Owned by The New York Times Company, which also owns the Boston Globe and 14 other newspapers, the Times is published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. and is distributed internationally. It has 16 news bureaus in the New York region, 11 national news bureaus, and 26 foreign news bureaus. As of December 2005, the Times staff consisted of more than 350 full-time reporters and approximately 40 photographers, in addition to hundreds of free-lance contributors.

During the course of its history the Times has won 94 Pulitzer Prizes (including a record seven in 2002), far more than any other newspaper. These awards have sometimes been fraught with controversy, however. For example, Walter Duranty was a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Moscow correspondent in the 1930s who concealed his knowledge of Joseph Stalin's mass murders and other atrocities in the Soviet Union. In 1933, at the height of the Russian famine during which millions starved to death, Duranty wrote that "village makets [were] flowing with eggs, fruit, poultry, vegetables, milk and butter. … A child can see this is not famine but abundance." According to historians, reports such as these were crucial factors influencing President Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to grant the Soviet Union diplomatic recognition in 1933. Writes historian Ronald Radosh, "Duranty was a propagandist for Stalin and everything he wrote was a lie."

Controversy also surrounded a December 16, 2005 Times article revealing leaked information that President Bush had authorized the National Security Agency to conduct wiretaps of certain international telephone conversations between suspected terrorists in the U.S. and others abroad without first obtaining court warrants for the surveillance. Critics of the policy charged that such wiretapping was unconstitutional and in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. Supporters of the measure held that it was both a crucial and legally permissible counter-intelligence tool, and that the Times' disclosure of the secret program amounted to treason. The reporters who brought the story to light, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, were awarded Pulitzer Prizes in 2006.

Another controversy of recent times involved Jayson Blair, who was fired from his job as a New York Times reporter in May 2003 when it was learned that he had committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud. Blair had concocted, in part or whole, many of the 600-plus stories he had worked on at the Times -- fabricating quotes and events, and lifting material from other newspapers and wire services. The paper's top two editors -- Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald M. Boyd -- resigned their posts following the revelations about Blair.

The New York Times' current Executive Editor is Bill Keller, who succeeded Howell Raines. The paper's op-ed columnists include David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, Thomas L. Friedman, Bob Herbert, Nicholas D. Kristof, Paul Krugman, and Frank Rich.

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