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The New York Times was founded in 1851 as the New-York Daily Times by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, both formerly of the New-York Tribune. Adolph Ochs acquired the paper in August 1896 and removed the hyphen from its name.
As of 2023, The New York Times has received 137 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any publication. The paper has been awarded the prize since 1918.
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964) arose after Montgomery Public Safety commissioner L. B. Sullivan sued the Times for defamation over a full-page civil rights advertisement published in 1960. The Supreme Court ruled that the Alabama courts had violated the First Amendment, establishing a landmark standard that severely limits the ability of public officials to sue media outlets for defamation.
The Ochs-Sulzberger family has chaired The New York Times Company since 1896, when Adolph Ochs acquired the paper. The family controls the company through a dual-class stock structure, holding ninety-five percent of Class B shares as of 2022, which allows them to elect seventy percent of the board.
As of August 2025, The New York Times has 11.8 million subscribers, including 11.3 million online-only subscribers and 580,000 print subscribers. The New York Times Company has stated it intends to reach 15 million subscribers by 2027.
The Times published the Pentagon Papers in 1971, an internal Department of Defense document detailing U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, after the Supreme Court ruled in New York Times Co. v. United States that the First Amendment guaranteed the right to publish them, rejecting then-president Richard Nixon's objections.