Print newspaper
In the absence of a major headline, the day's most important story
generally appears in the top-right column, on the main page. The
typefaces used for the headlines are custom variations of
Cheltenham. The running text is set at 8.7
point Imperial.
In 2012,
The New York Times introduced a Chinese-language news site, cn.nytimes.com, with content created by staff based in
Shanghai,
Beijing and
Hong Kong, though the server was placed outside of China to avoid censorship issues.
[170] In March 2013,
The New York Times and
National Film Board of Canada announced a partnership titled
A Short History of the Highrise, which will create four short documentaries for the Internet about life in highrise buildings as part of the NFB's
Highrise
project, utilizing images from the newspaper's photo archives for the
first three films, and user-submitted images for the final film.
[171] The third project in the series, "A Short History of the Highrise", won a
Peabody Award in 2013
In June 2012,
The New York Times launched its first official foreign-language variant, cn.nytimes.com, in
Chinese,
[197] viewable in both
traditional and
simplified Chinese characters. The project was led by
Craig S. Smith on the business side and
Philip P. Pan on the editorial side.
The site's initial success was interrupted in October that year following the publication of an investigative article
[b] by
David Barboza about the finances of Chinese Premier
Wen Jiabao's family.
[198] In retaliation for the article, the Chinese government blocked access to both nytimes.com and cn.nytimes.com inside the
People's Republic of China (PRC).
The New York Times editorial page is often regarded as
liberal.
[209][15] In mid-2004, the newspaper's then
public editor (
ombudsman),
Daniel Okrent,
wrote that "the Op-Ed page editors do an evenhanded job of representing
a range of views in the essays from outsiders they publish – but you
need an awfully heavy counterweight to balance a page that also bears
the work of seven opinionated columnists, only two of whom could be
classified as conservative (and, even then, of the conservative
subspecies that supports legalization of gay unions and, in the case of
William Safire, opposes some central provisions of the
Patriot Act)."
[210]
The New York Times has not endorsed a Republican Party member for president since
Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956; since 1960, it has endorsed the Democratic Party nominee in every presidential election (see
New York Times presidential endorsements).
[211] However, the
New York Times did endorse incumbent
moderate Republican mayors of New York City
Rudy Giuliani in 1997
[212] and
Michael Bloomberg in 2005
[213] and 2009.
[214] The
Times also endorsed Republican New York state governor
George Pataki for re-election in 2002.
[215]
The New York Times editorial board condemned President
Donald Trump's decision to
withdraw U.S. troops from Syria as "abrupt and dangerous".
Hiring practices
In April 2016, two black female employees in their sixties filed a
federal class action lawsuit against The New York Times Company CEO
Mark Thompson and chief revenue officer Meredith Levien, claiming
age,
gender, and
racial discrimination. The plaintiffs claimed that the
Times advertising department favored younger white employees over older black employees in making firing and promotion decisions.
[273][274] The
Times said that the suit was "entirely without merit" and was "a series of recycled, scurrilous and unjustified attacks."
[274]

Jayson Blair

Mark Thompson

Meredith kopit Levien
The fragrant air is full of down,
Of floating, fleecy things
From some forgotten fairy town
Where all the folk wear wings.
the end of may by Katharine Lee Bates