# New York Times *American daily newspaper based in Manhattan, New York City; the outlet in one at-issue pair and the source of sixteen catalogued items in this record.* *The New York Times* is a daily newspaper headquartered in Manhattan. It publishes domestic, national and international reporting along with opinion and review pages, and Wikipedia counts it among the country's newspapers of record.[^1] It is published by The New York Times Company, and the Ochs-Sulzberger family has controlled it since 1896.[^1] In the [[Minnesota]] record the paper appears in two ways. It is the outlet in one at-issue pair about [[St. Cloud]] resettlement.[^2] It is also the publisher of sixteen items in the project's claims table. Fifteen of those items are labelled "news reporting (notice / public-record context)", and the sixteenth cites a *New York Times Magazine* project.[^3][^4] The record uses these items as context. It does not use them as findings about the newspaper. ## Who Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, both journalists from the *New-York Tribune*, founded the paper in 1851.[^1] The financier Edward B. Wesley is credited as a third co-founder; he was the first business manager and supplied half the starting capital.[^1] Raymond published the paper until 1869 and Jones until 1896. Since 1896 the publisher has come from the Ochs-Sulzberger family:[^1] - Adolph Ochs, to 1935 - Arthur Hays Sulzberger, to 1961 - Orvil Dryfoos, to 1963 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, to 1992 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., to 2018 - A. G. Sulzberger, the current publisher As of 2023, Joseph Kahn was executive editor.[^1] The paper is owned by The New York Times Company, a publicly traded firm. The family holds majority control through elevated shares in a dual-class stock structure, held largely in a trust and in place since the 1950s. The company also owns Wirecutter and The Athletic.[^1] ## What Besides the daily paper, the Times publishes *The New York Times Magazine*, *The New York Times International Edition* and *The New York Times Book Review*.[^1] Two Supreme Court decisions carry the company's name:[^1] - *New York Times Co. v. Sullivan* (1964) limited the ability of public officials to sue the press for defamation. - *New York Times Co. v. United States* (1971) held that the First Amendment protected publication of the Pentagon Papers, an internal Defense Department history of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The Wikipedia account also sets an institutional statement beside a reported practice. In April 2024, *The Intercept* reported a November 2023 internal memorandum that told journalists to limit or avoid certain terms in coverage of Gaza. A Times spokesperson stated that issuing guidance was standard practice.[^1] In September 2026, shareholders filed a lawsuit asking the company to release internal records on its Gaza coverage decisions, amid claims that the paper had not followed its own editorial policies. The account gives no docket or status for that suit.[^1] ## When The paper began in 1851 as the *New-York Daily Times*. Raymond later renamed it *The New-York Times*, and Ochs removed the hyphen after he acquired the paper in August 1896.[^1] Under Jones, the paper ran articles criticizing Tammany Hall boss William M. Tweed. In 1871 it published Tammany Hall's accounting books; Tweed was tried in 1873 and sentenced to twelve years.[^1] The website nytimes.com launched in 1996. An online paywall followed in 2011, and the next year subscription revenue overtook advertising revenue.[^1] ## How many As of June 2026, the paper had 13.35 million subscribers: 12.8 million digital and 550,000 print. The company's stated target is 15 million by 2027.[^1] As of 2023, it had won 137 awards of the [[Pulitzer Prize]], more than any other publication.[^1] As of 2022, it ranked second in U.S. print circulation, behind *The Wall Street Journal*. By December 2023 it had printed sixty thousand issues.[^1] ## In the at-issue record At-issue pair AI-Stearns-082 (package Stearns, rank 82) is filed under *The Jurisdiction Gap & the Unrecorded Record Edition*. It compares two consequences:[^2] - **Private:** a think-tank executive was suspended without pay by her own employer for remarks to the New York Times about St. Cloud resettlement. The pair calls this consequence private and immediate. - **Federal:** a federal civil-rights finding against a school district four miles away carried no fine and no funding loss. The pair concludes that private employers moved faster than the federal government.[^2] It is anchored to the January 2025 White House presidential action *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity*.[^2] The pair lists two sources, an agency item and a news item on cbsnews.com. Neither is among the citable URLs for this article. This article therefore does not establish who the employer was, when the suspension occurred, or which agency made the federal finding, on what date and on what terms.[^2] Separately, KARE 11 reported St. Cloud's reaction to an article about an immigrant backlash. It quoted the city's mayor disputing a New York Times portrayal: "It's not what I see on a regular basis, and it's not reflective."[^5] The record does not establish whether that article is the one in which the think-tank executive's remarks appeared. ## In the Minnesota record ### What The project's claims table carries sixteen rows that point to nytimes.com. The fifteen rows labelled as news reporting for notice or public-record context are filed under these uses: - **How-Minnesota-Got-Here historical spine:** seven articles, dated by their URLs from June 2, 1974 to September 26, 2020.[^6][^7] - **Parallel-architecture comparative case (Scientology timeline):** five articles, dated from December 16, 1979 to July 1, 2005.[^8][^9] - **ASBL architect dossier (federal-contracting watchdog node):** one article of September 12, 2006.[^10] - **Foundation layer on [[Dakota]]/Ojibwe land cession & Morrill capitalization:** one article of October 30, 2017.[^11] - **Killshot pair source:** one article of September 27, 2020.[^3] The sixteenth row cites Nikole Hannah-Jones, *The 1619 Project*, *New York Times Magazine* (August 2019).[^4] The record shows these rows as context citations. It does not establish any finding about the newspaper from them. ## Notes [^1]: Wikipedia contributors, *The New York Times* (revision 1379161752, retrieved 2026-10-27) — founding, publishers, ownership, Supreme Court cases, Gaza-coverage memorandum and shareholder suit, circulation, Pulitzer count. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times [^2]: The White House, *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity* (January 2025) — anchor of at-issue pair AI-Stearns-082 (package Stearns), which sets the think-tank suspension beside the federal finding. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/ [^3]: The New York Times, *article* (September 27, 2020) — claims-table row S-2566, labelled "news reporting (notice / public-record context) — killshot pair source". https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html [^4]: The New York Times Magazine, *The 1619 Project* (August 2019) — claims-table row S-8086. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html [^5]: KARE 11, *St. Cloud reacts to immigrant backlash article* (undated in pack) — the St. Cloud mayor disputing a New York Times portrayal (dossier note 51; grade unassessed). https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/st-cloud-reacts-to-immigrant-backlash-article/89-6d5aa28f-85c2-485c-a549-c1f7fe85efc6 [^6]: The New York Times, *archive article* (June 2, 1974) — claims-table row S-8749, How-Minnesota-Got-Here historical spine. https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/02/archives/sloankettering-affirms-fraud-in-experiments.html [^7]: The New York Times, *article* (September 26, 2020) — claims-table row S-9200, How-Minnesota-Got-Here historical spine. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/us/politics/minneapolis-defund-police.html [^8]: The New York Times, *archive article* (December 16, 1979) — claims-table row S-5177, parallel-architecture comparative case (Scientology timeline). https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/16/archives/9-scientologists-given-prison-terms-and-fines.html [^9]: The New York Times, *opinion article* (July 1, 2005) — claims-table row S-5218, parallel-architecture comparative case (Scientology timeline). https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/opinion/war-of-words.html [^10]: The New York Times, *article* (September 12, 2006) — claims-table row S-3821, ASBL architect dossier (federal-contracting watchdog node). https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/business/smallbusiness/seeking-a-bigger-slice-of-an-85-billion-pie.html [^11]: The New York Times, *obituary* (October 30, 2017) — claims-table row S-6627, foundation layer on Dakota/Ojibwe land cession & Morrill capitalization. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/obituaries/dennis-banks-co-founder-of-american-indian-movement-dies-at-80.html