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A brass pendant light once hung in the lobby of the newspaper’s former headquarters. In the https://www.nytimes.com/series/in-times-past column, David W. Dunlap explores New York Times history through artifacts housed in [...]

Hours after the attempted assassination on former President Donald J. Trump, a Times editor outlined upcoming coverage of the event for the newspaper. In the https://www.nytimes.com/series/in-times-past column, David W. Dunlap [...]

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln shook the nation. But it was the concurrent attack on the secretary of state that also shook the founder of The New York Times, who [...]

In May 2022, The Times published a map of the United States and Puerto Rico with 992,124 dots on it, each reflecting a reported death from Covid-19. In the https://www.nytimes.com/series/in-times-past [...]

“Moveable Type,” in which screens flash fragments from The Times’s news report, has been in the lobby of the company’s headquarters since 2007. In the https://www.nytimes.com/series/in-times-past column, David W. Dunlap [...]

A model of The New York Times’s old headquarters in Times Square was missing the gargoyles that once adorned the building. Enter a graphics editor with a passion on the [...]

The Times’s investigation into the allegations against Harvey Weinstein won a Pulitzer Prize, and inspired a Hollywood movie. There were modest forms a praise, too. In the https://www.nytimes.com/series/in-times-past column, David [...]

During President Bill Clinton’s impeachment, a reader sent the letters desk a brick inscribed with a message. No damage was reported. The message was strong: “CONVICT CRIMINAL CLINTON.” The medium [...]

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. steered The Times during an era of great change. His likeness now hangs at the organization’s headquarters. In the https://www.nytimes.com/series/in-times-past column, David W. Dunlap explores New [...]

In 1914, an Easter section in The Times that showed paintings from the Metropolitan Museum was a sensation. But there was something off about Fra Angelico’s ‘The Crucifixion.’ In the [...]

In the old New York Times headquarters, stained-glass panels adorned the editorial offices — and colored the place in more ways than one. In the https://www.nytimes.com/series/in-times-past column, David W. Dunlap [...]

In the https://www.nytimes.com/series/in-times-past column, David W. Dunlap explores New York Times history through artifacts housed in the Museum of The Times. The answer was right there on https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/insider/the-times-and-the-tablet.html’s bookshelf. The [...]

In 2010, the Apple iPad offered a new way to read the news. To prepare for its arrival, The Times needed a model. In the https://www.nytimes.com/series/in-times-past column, David W. Dunlap [...]

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s obituary was written well before he was killed in Memphis. In the https://www.nytimes.com/series/in-times-past column, David W. Dunlap explores New York Times history through [...]

A very old way of saying “impartially” lives on in Times history. In the https://www.nytimes.com/series/in-times-past column, David W. Dunlap explores New York Times history through artifacts housed in the Museum [...]

In 1999, a news assistant's number crunching revealed that The Times had gotten ahead of itself. Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights [...]

In 1999, a news assistant’s number crunching revealed that The Times had gotten ahead of itself. https://www.nytimes.com/series/times-insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into [...]

In Queens, The New York Times shares its printing presses with more than two dozen other periodicals. In the In Times Past column, David W. Dunlap explores New York Times [...]

After Benito Mussolini was executed by Italian partisans, a Times reporter in Europe raced to send proof to New York. In the In Times Past column, David W. Dunlap explores [...]

The Times didn’t just cover the pioneering aviators of the early 20th century. It sponsored their flights. In the In Times Past column, David W. Dunlap explores New York Times [...]

A postage stamp issued in 2020 commemorated Gwen Ifill, a New York Times correspondent who covered the White House in the early ’90s. In the In Times Past column, David [...]

Mementos gathered by a correspondent in Ukraine tell their own stories. In the In Times Past column, David W. Dunlap explores New York Times history through artifacts housed in the [...]

One of the rarest editions of The New York Times, from election night in 2000, never made it further than the newsroom. In the In Times Past column, David W. [...]

Four days after the attacks of Sept. 11, The New York Times began printing short profiles of the victims. The series became known as Portraits of Grief. Few New York [...]

To boost its sagging fortunes, The Times introduced six new daily sections in the late 1970s. One of them was SportsMonday, a visual knockout. Forty-five years is an eternity in [...]

A New York Times article that reported reinforcements at Soviet missile sites angered President John F. Kennedy, not because it was wrong, but because it was correct. President John F. [...]

The U.S. government named 22 defendants in its suit to stop The Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers. Two Times journalists designed a way to show support for their colleagues. [...]

A pair of zip-tie cuffs, on display in the Museum at The Times, serve as a stark reminder of the risk and significance of on-the-ground journalism. Some journalists who covered [...]

A new world was born after World War II, and The New York Times was determined to shape it. When the United States entered World War II in 1941, The [...]

In 1928, The New York Times wrapped an electric bulletin board around its headquarters to deliver breaking news to the throng of Times Square. Why wait for the morning edition [...]

More than anyone else, Allan M. Siegal shaped modern standards at The Times. He got his points across with a green felt-tip pen. Some pens are mightier than swords. At [...]

A reader with an eye for detail put his girlfriend to the test with a question in fine print. “One of the first things I learned about Ross was what [...]

The publisher of The New York Times received a Red Sox World Series ring after Boston’s historic triumph in 2004. Even today, Boston Red Sox fans would recognize the names [...]

New York Times v. Sullivan established a standard for defamation lawsuits. But the case was not about Times journalism. American journalists are protected from defamation claims by public officials under [...]

A security officer recalls four decades of incidents around the headquarters, including a whack from John Houseman’s cane. Steve T. Moore, shield No. 424, has worn the blue patrol uniform [...]

The United States lent nearly 200 Liberty cargo ships to Britain during World War II. One was named for Adolph S. Ochs, the publisher of The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1935/04/09/archives/adolph-s-ochs-dead-at-77-publisher-of-times-since-1896-adolph-s.html [...]

A New York Times logo introduced in 1958 and based on a 1740 carving still carries “a good, strong punch.” The eagle that landed at The New York Times as [...]

For a quarter of a century — holidays included — Bill Sokol’s drawings injected a note of whimsy into the stolid New York Times. Each December from the 1940s through [...]

The first issue of The Times arrived in a country that was tearing itself apart. America was tearing itself apart when the first issue of The New York Times (then [...]

He was both a computer whiz and an accomplished newsman when he began prodding colleagues and the newspaper itself to begin adapting to the online world. Richard J. Meislin, a [...]

Trump Plaza. Trump Place. Trump Park Avenue. Trump World Tower. Trump International Hotel and Tower. They all have another name in common: Costas Kondylis. Mr. Kondylis was the architect of [...]

Robert Silman, a structural engineer who rescued Frank Lloyd Wright's cantilevered Fallingwater in Pennsylvania from the edge of collapse, and preserved dozens of other landmarks besides, died on July 31 [...]

Pat de Groot, a painter who embodied an era when the beaches and dunes at the tip of Cape Cod were peopled with artistic geniuses and incorrigible eccentrics -- often [...]

Pat de Groot, a painter who embodied an era when the beaches and dunes at the tip of Cape Cod were peopled with artistic geniuses and incorrigible eccentrics -- often [...]

You suggested we have lunch. You were the Metro assignment editor. I was on your staff, but I answered to another editor as a matter of protocol. I had no [...]

Times Insider shares historic insights from The New York Times. In this piece, David W. Dunlap, a metro reporter, looks back at a particularly memorable letter sent to T he [...]

Virginia O'Hanlon's father told her, ''If you see it in The Sun, it's so.'' So that was the newspaper she chose in 1897 to ask whether there really was a [...]