• The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed around the world. The New York Times had a reputation as a venerable American institution in the last century, and is considered the paper of record for the United States. It publishes a daily and Sunday edition.

  On June 9, 2009, The New York Times Company announced they are not planning to close down the Boston Globe despite the fact that the publication's "largest union rejected a $10 million package of concessions" the day before.Reuters: NY Times does not plan to close Boston Globe (June 9, 2009)

  In order to achieve the savings they need to continue to operate the Boston Globe, the Times said "it would cut guild members' pay by 23 percent".Reuters: NY Times does not plan to close Boston Globe (June 9, 2009)

• 1. Headquarters: 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, New York
  2. Part of The New York Times Company
  3. Founded: September 18, 1851
  4. Publisher: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
  5. Circulation: 1,120,420 Daily
  6. Circulation: 1,627,062 Sunday
  7. Motto: "All The News That's Fit To Print"
  8. Nickname: Gray Ford
  9. Local: 16
  10. National: 11
  11. International: 26
  12. Pulitzer Prizes: 102 (as of June 2009) http://www.pulitzer.org/faceted_search/results/new+the+times+york+taxonomy%3A2
  13. Typeface: Custom versions of Cheltenham
  14. 1896: Acquired by Adolph Ochs; the Ochs family has fully controlled or maintained a controlling interest in the newspaper since that time

• Notable Stories

  The New York Times has broken many stories of note over its history:

  • 1859:The Battle of Solferino in the Italian War for Independence
  • 1870-1871: Boss Tweed was exposed after a series of Times stories
  • 1912:The sinking of the Titanic
  • 1919: Printing the entire Treaty of Versailles
  • 1927: An exclusive first person account of Charles Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight
  • 1945: A Times reporter was the only journalist on the mission to bomb Nagasaki, Japan
  • 1968: First to report General Westmoreland's request for more troops in Vietnam
  • 1973: Daniel Ellsberg exposed the Pentagon Papers to the Times

• NY Times-Boston Globe

  In April 2009, The New York Times Company demanded $20 million in concessions from the Boston Globe's unions or risk being shut down. The New York Times Company, which owns the Boston Globe, met with the paper's 13 unions to demand their concessions, which could include pay cuts, the end of pension contributions and the elimination of tenure positions offering lifetime employment.Salon.com: Boston Globe unions say NY Times wants $20M cut (April 3, 2009)

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