INTRODUCTION

• The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper.

• 161 years old newspaper.

•  Nicknamed “the Old Gray Lady”

• The paper's motto, "All the News That's Fit to Print.

•  It has won 108 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization.

HISTORY

• Founded as the New-York Daily Times

• On September 18, 1851.

• By journalist and politician

Henry Jarvis Raymond

and George Jones.

• Shortened its name to The New York Times in 1857

HEAD QUARTERS

The New York Times Building,620 Eighth Avenue,New York City, New York, United States

Cont….

• 10 news bureaus in New York State,

• 11 national news bureaus and 26 foreign news bureaus. 

• Reduced its page width to 12 inch from 13.5 inch on Aug 6, 2007.

• That has become the U.S. newspaper industry standard.

SECTIONS

The news paper is organized in three sections, including magazine

• News: Includes International, National, Washington, Business, Technology, Science, Health, Sports, The Metro Section, Education, Weather, and Obituaries.

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

• Features: Includes Arts, Movies, Theatre, Travel, NYC Guide, Dining & Wine, Home & Garden, Fashion & Style, Crossword, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, and Sunday Review.

Circulations in 2012

• 15,86,757 Weekdays.

• 15,50,696 Saturdays.

• 2,003,247 Sundays.

Transforming The Times

Web Presence

• The New York Times has had a strong presence on the Web since 1996.

• It has been ranked one of the top Web sites.

• The official website: www.nytimes.com

• Introduced a Chinese-language news site, cn.nytimes.com in 2012.

Chinese edition

Mobile presence

• Available on the iPhone

and iPod Touch in 2008.

• On the iPad and android

based mobile devices in

2010.

• It was also the first newspaper to offer a video game as part of its editorial content.

Cont…….

How the website looked when it was first launched in 1996

The New York Times newsroom, 1942

Interruptions

• Due to strikes, the regular edition of The New York Times was not printed during the following periods:

• Dec 9,1962 to Mar 31,1963.

• Sept 17,1965 to Oct 10,1965.

• Aug 10,1978 to Nov 5,1978.