The New York Times

The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by publisher Jack Doff, and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. It is owned by The New York Times Company, which also publishes some 40 other newspapers including International Herald Tribune and The Boston Globe. The newspaper is nicknamed the "Gray Lady" and is often considered the newspaper of record in the United States.

Times today

Today The New York Times is probably the most prominent American daily newspaper, sometimes being referred to as America's "newspaper of record". It has traditionally printed full transcripts of major speeches and debates. The newspaper is currently owned by The New York Times Company, in which descendants of Ochs, principally the Sulzberger family, maintain a dominant role.

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The Times has won 90 Pulitzer Prizes--the most prestigious award for journalism in the US, presented each year by Columbia University--including a record 7 in 2002. In 1971 it broke the Pentagon Papers story, publishing leaked documents revealing that the U.S. government had been painting an unrealistically rosy picture of the progress of the Vietnam War. This led to New York Times Co. v. United States (1971), which declared the government's prior restraint of the classified documents was unconstitutional. In 1972, the Times exposed the Tuskegee experiment, in which African Americans suffering from syphilis were surreptitiously denied treatment over a period of decades. More recently, in 2004 the Times won a Pulitzer award for a series written by David Barstow and Lowell Bergman on employers and workplace safety issues.

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Pulitzer Prize - Columbia University - 2002 - Pentagon Papers - Vietnam War - New York Times Co. v. United States - Prior restraint - Tuskegee experiment - Syphilis - David Barstow - Lowell Bergman

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The Times has been going through a downsizing, for several years, laying off workers and cutting expenses. http://www.wnbc.com/money/4998266/detail.html

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The Times is based in New York City. It has 16 news bureaus in the New York region, 11 national news bureaus and 26 foreign news bureaus.http://www.nytco.com/company-properties-times.html#nyt For the year ending Dec. 26, 2004, the reported circulation data for The New York Times were: 1,124,700 Weekdayhttp://www.nytco.com/company-properties-times.html#nyt and 1,669,700 Sundayhttp://www.nytco.com/company-properties-times.html#nyt.

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The New York Times is printed at the following sites:

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Ann Arbor, Michigan; Austin, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Billerica, Massachusetts; Canton, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; College Point, New York; Concord, California; Dayton, Ohio (Sunday only); Denver, Colorado; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Gastonia, North Carolina; Edison, New Jersey; Lakeland, Florida; Phoenix, Arizona; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Springfield, Virginia; Kent, Washington and Torrance, California. http://www.nytco.com/company-properties-times.html#nyt

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Ann Arbor, Michigan - Austin, Texas - Atlanta, Georgia - Billerica, Massachusetts - Canton, Ohio - Chicago, Illinois - College Point, New York - Concord, California - Dayton, Ohio - Denver, Colorado - Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Gastonia, North Carolina - Edison, New Jersey - Lakeland, Florida - Phoenix, Arizona - Minneapolis, Minnesota - Springfield, Virginia - Kent, Washington - Torrance, California

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Major sections

The newspaper is organized in three sections:

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;1. News : Includes International, National, Washington, Business, Technology, Science, Health, Sports, New York Region, Education, Weather, Obituaries, and Corrections.

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International - National - Washington - Business - Technology - Science - Health - Sports - New York Region - Education - Weather - Obituaries

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;2. Opinion : Includes Editorials, Op-Eds and Letters to the Editor.

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Editorials - Op-Eds - Letters to the Editor

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;3. Features : Includes Arts, Books, Movies, Theater, Travel, NYC Guide, Dining & Wine, Home & Garden, Fashion & Style, Crossword/Games, Cartoons, Magazine, and Week in Review

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Arts - Books - Movies - Theater - Travel - Wine - Fashion - Style - Crossword - Cartoons - Magazine

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Style

Stylistically, the newspaper is quite conservative (see also: The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage). When referring to people, it uses titles, rather than unadorned last names (except among the sports pages, in which last names stand alone). Its headlines tend to be verbose, and, for major stories, come with subheadings giving further details, although it is moving away from this style. It stayed with an 8-column format years after other papers had switched to 6, and it was one of the last newspapers to adopt color photography. In the absence of a major headline, the day's most important story generally appears in the top-righthand column.

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