The New York Times

''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') or the ''NY Times''. ''The New York Times'' uses the domain nytimes.com.}} is a newspaper based in Manhattan, New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces 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 11.88 million total and 11.3 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 580,000 print subscribers. ''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 135 times since 1918, the most of any publication. According to a 2025 Pew Research Center study on educational differences among audiences of 30 major U.S. news outlets, ''The New York Times'' had the highest proportion of college-educated readers among the daily newspapers surveyed, with 56% of its audience holding at least a bachelor's degree.

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