Nytimes06-29-1914

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. Although it remains both the largest local metropolitan newspaper in the United States as well as third largest overall behind The Wall Street Journal and USA Today, the weekday circulation of the paper has fallen precipitously in recent years to fewer than one million copies daily for the first time since the 1980s. Nicknamed "The Gray Lady" and long regarded within the industry as a national "newspaper of record," the Times is owned by The New York Times Company which also publishes 18 other regional newspapers including the International Herald Tribune and The Boston Globe. The companys chairman is Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. whose family has controlled the paper since 1896.

The papers motto, as printed in the upper left-hand corner of the front page, is "All the News Thats Fit to Print." It is organized into sections: News, Opinions, Business, Arts, Science, Sports, Style and Features. The Times stayed with the eight-column format for several years after most papers switched to six columns, and it was one of the last newspapers to adopt color photography. The Times has won 104 Pulitzer Prizes (List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times staff), the most of any news organization. Its web site was the most popular American online newspaper Web site as of December 2008, receiving more than 18 million unique visitors in that month.