The New York Times covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, 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. As of [update] , The New York Times is the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States , with , print subscribers. The Times has 8. The New York Times is published by the New York Times Company ; since , the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publisher is A.
The Times was founded as the conservative New-York Daily Times in , and came to national recognition in the s with its aggressive coverage of corrupt politician William M. Following the Panic of , Chattanooga Times publisher Adolph Ochs gained a controlling interest in the company.
In , Ochs was succeeded by his son-in-law, Arthur Hays Sulzberger , who began a push into European news. Sulzberger's son-in-law Arthur Ochs became publisher in , adapting to a changing newspaper industry and introducing radical changes.
The New York Times was involved in the landmark U. Sullivan , which restricted the ability of public officials to sue the media for defamation. In the landmark decision New York Times Co. In the s, the Times began a two-decade progression to digital technology and launched nytimes.
