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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 William M. Tweed. Following the Panic of 1893, Chattanooga Times publisher Adolph Ochs gained a controlling interest in the company.
Since 1851, The New York Times has been on the ground reporting stories from around the globe that no one else was telling. How we tell those stories has changed, but our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world has remained constant.
The Times was established in 1851 as a penny paper that would avoid sensationalism and report the news in a restrained and objective fashion. It enjoyed early success as its editors set a pattern for the future by appealing to a cultured, intellectual readership instead of a mass audience.
The company was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones in New York City. The first edition of the newspaper The New York Times, published on September 18, 1851, stated: "We publish today the first issue of the New-York Daily Times, and we intend to issue it every morning (Sundays excepted) for an indefinite number of years to come." [6]
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Founding and Early History. The New York Times history goes as far back as September 18, 1851, when the publication was founded as the New-York Daily Times. Henry Jarvis Raymond, a journalist and politician, and George Jones, a former banker, came together to establish the newspaper which was originally published by Raymond, Jones and Company.
The New York Times Magazine marked the anniversary of the first ship carrying enslaved Africans arriving in what would become the United States by launching The 1619 Project, which examines the many ways the legacy of slavery continues to shape and define life in the United States.
The newly opened Museum at The Times, on the 15th floor of the Times Building in New York, is filled with curios and artifacts that date back 170 years.
The New York Times experienced unprecedented indignation from Trump, who referred to publications such as the Times as "enemies of the people" at the Conservative Political Action Conference and tweeting his disdain for the newspaper and CNN.
Los Angeles Times A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR For over a century, The New York Times has been an iconic institution in American journalism, one whose history is intertwined with the events that it chronicles—a newspaper read by millions of people every day to stay informed about events that have taken place across the globe.