The New York Times
The New York Times is a daily newspaper based in New York City and one of the most influential news organizations in the United States and the world. It is known for extensive national and international reporting, investigative journalism, and numerous Pulitzer Prizes. Major media-bias assessments such as AllSides and Media Bias/Fact Check place it left of center, most visibly on its opinion pages.
The New York Times at a glance
- Country
- United States
- Region
- North America · Americas
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Founded
- 1851
- Owner
- The New York Times Company
- Published from
- New York City
- Website
- nytimes.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups The New York Times
Crosswire groups The New York Times as Left-leaning for comparisons within the United States' directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In the United States, USA Today and NBC News are listed as Centrist, while Fox News is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open The New York Times beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where The New York Times sits in the United States' press
The New York Times was founded in 1851, is published from New York City and is owned by The New York Times Company. It is one of 14 outlets tracked in the United States, and one of 4 daily newspapers among them — the others being Los Angeles Times, USA Today and The Washington Post. By outlets tracked, the United States ranks first of the 35 countries on Crosswire's Americas hub, which lists 165 outlets in all.
Across the Americas, Crosswire tracks 85 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to The New York Times outside the United States, starting with North America, are The Globe and Mail (Canada), El Universal (Mexico), Prensa Libre (Guatemala) and El Salvador (El Salvador). Opening one of them beside The New York Times is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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