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New York Times (coverage of itself

U.S. center-left

Owned byThe New York Times Company, a publicly traded corporation controlled by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, which holds Class B shares carrying 10-to-1 voting power over Class A shares. A.G. Sulzberger (fifth generation of the founding family) serves as publisher and board chairman.
FundingPrimarily subscription revenue — over 12 million digital and print subscribers as of 2025, generating roughly $480 million per quarter in subscription income. Secondary revenue comes from digital advertising and licensing. The company is not state-funded and accepts no government subsidy.
On the administrationbroadly critical

Background

The New York Times was founded in 1851 by journalist Henry J. Raymond and financier George Jones as a general-interest daily in New York City. In 1896, Adolph S. Ochs, a Tennessee newspaper publisher, purchased the struggling paper and adopted the motto 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' steering it toward comprehensive, record-of-record journalism. Ownership passed through five generations of the Ochs-Sulzberger family; a dual-class share structure gives Class B shareholders — primarily the family — ten votes per share, effectively blocking hostile takeovers. The Times built a reputation for investigative and international reporting, accumulating more than 130 Pulitzer Prizes. Notable controversies include its 1971 publication of the Pentagon Papers (which produced a landmark Supreme Court ruling in favor of press freedom), criticism of its pre-Iraq War reporting that leaned heavily on official claims about weapons of mass destruction, and the 2003 Jayson Blair scandal in which a staff reporter was found to have fabricated or plagiarized dozens of articles. Beginning in the 2010s, the paper shifted aggressively to a digital subscription model, and by 2025 it surpassed 12 million paid subscribers, making it one of the most widely read English-language outlets in the world. News-bias monitoring groups such as AllSides generally rate its news coverage as center-left and its opinion section as left; conservative critics frequently accuse it of liberal bias, while some progressive critics contend its news desk is too deferential to institutional and establishment sources.

Sources

  1. The New York Times — Wikipedia
  2. The New York Times Company — Wikipedia
  3. New York Times editorial board blasts Trump's foreign policy — The Hill
  4. New York Times editorial measures Trump's shift toward autocracy — The Hill
  5. New York Times Opinion — AllSides Media Bias Rating
  6. Who Owns The New York Times? — Saint Augustine's University
  7. New York Times Company — Grokipedia
  8. Is the New York Times finally getting real about Trump? — Press Watch

Profile compiled 2026-07-12; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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