American Press: the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine.

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American Press the New York Times and the New
York Times Magazine.

• Prepared by
• Evgeniya Bolshakova,
• the 1st English group.

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• The New York Times is a daily broadsheet
  newspaper founded by
• Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones on
  September 18,1851.

George Jones
Henry J. Raymond
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The first issue

• "We publish today the first issue of the New-York
  Daily Times, and we intend to issue it every
  morning (Sundays excepted) for an indefinite
  number of years to come.
• Henry J. Raymond,
• George Jones.

New-York Daily Times 1851.
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• The third largest local metropolitan newspaper
  after the Wall Street Journal and USA Today.
• Its motto, created by A. Ochs in 1896, is printed
  in the upper-left hand corner of the paper and
  says All the News That's Fit to Print."

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• The newspaper was originally published every day
  except Sunday, but on April 21, 1861, due to the
  demand for daily coverage of the Civil War, The
  Times, along with other major dailies, started
  publishing Sunday issues.
• Since then it has a
• regular Sunday publication.

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3 sections of the NYTimes

1. Opinion which includes editorials, letters to the
   editor and Op-Eds (opposite the editorial page
   - opinion pieces by outside writers, placed on
   the page opposite the newspapers editorials
   space previously reserved for obituaries.)
2. News which includes national, international news,
   business, health, sports, technology, science,
   etc.
3. Features which includes arts, travel, fashion
   style, theatre, movies.
4. Sometimes a Metro section is included.

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The New York Times company

• Nowadays the NYTimes newspaper and magazine are
  owned by the NYTimes Company whose core purpose
  is to "enhance society by creating, collecting
  and distributing high-quality news, information
  and entertainment.
• Its chairman is Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. whose
  family has controlled the newspaper since 1896.

The NYTimes headquarter in Manhattan
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Circulation

• The Times remains the largest seven-day newspaper
  in the United States, with
• print circulation of 1.4 million Sunday and
  nearly 1 million daily in 2009
• a quality audience of over 22 million
  unduplicated readers online and in print.

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Audience

• The research (Spring, 2009) shows that the
  NYTimes is read mostly by adults
• Men - 108,664,
• Women - 116,235.
• Age 25 to 54 126,809.
• Popular among college students - 121,641.
• Job title/occupation employed full-time
  116,179.
• Home ownership/value average home value -
  263, 184.

Number of people
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Audience and delivery

• The Times is delivered to more than 1,200
  colleges and universities and used by more than
  1,500 schools in the United States.
• The Times is the 1 national newspaper among
  college students.
• It is delivered in bags made of recyclable
  plastic as it is the most effective approach to
  protect the paper against damage from inclement
  weather, morning dew, sprinkler systems and being
  thrown from a moving vehicle.

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Care for people

• Each week, the NYTimes publishes the Large Type
  Weekly, the only newspaper in America printed in
  large type for people with low vision. It offers
  a selected package of the week's news including
  articles, editorials and the NYTimes crossword
  puzzle.
• The NYTimes's Newspaper in Education program
  offers discounted newspapers for classrooms as
  well as supplemental guides
• for teachers.

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Investment in Reporting

• The NYTimes is widely spread. It has
• 10 news bureaus in the New York region
• 11 national bureaus across the United States, The
  Times continues to offer comprehensive coverage
  of national issues, including the health care
  debate, the economy, and state and national
  elections
• 26 foreign news bureaus. The Times maintains a
  strong commitment to providing its readers with
  news from around the world.

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Digital initiatives

• The Times Company is an industry leader in
  innovation.
• It was the first among its peers to integrate its
  print and digital newsrooms.
• The NYTimes newspaper Web site (www.nytimes.com)
  is one of the most frequently visited and one of
  the leading popular American online newspaper Web
  sites.

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The NYTimes Web site
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Digital initiatives

• In 2008 NYTimes.com's iPhone application is
  released. It gives readers offline capabilities,
  a photo browser with links to related articles
  and personalization
• options.

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The NYTimes on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and
Google

• NYT Crossword Widget on Google an online product
  that gives users the ability to personalize their
  Google homepage with The New York Times crossword
  puzzle.
• NYT News Quiz on Facebook The New York Times
  News Quiz is part of a larger strategy to deliver
  content in parts and pieces as widely as possible
  for consumption around the Web.
• The Times Company on Twitter The New York Times
  offers news updates on Twitter from the
  NYTimes.com homepage and various other sections
  of the site.
• NYTimes.com Videos on YouTube NYTimes.com
  YouTube edition features videos from the
  acclaimed writers, producers and editors of The
  New York Times.

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Some historical facts

• 1851, September 18 The first issue of the
  New-York Daily Times.
• 1861, April 21- Responding to the thirst for
  Civil War news, major dailies, including The
  Times, start Sunday Issues.
• 1865, April 15 - Its front-page columns bordered
  in black, The Times reports the assassination of
  Lincoln.
• 1884, October - The Times casts off its
  reputation as a Republican newspaper when it
  endorses Grover Cleveland, a Democrat, for
  president.

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Some historical facts

• 1896, August 18 - Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of
  The Chattanooga Times, acquires controlling
  ownership of The Times for 75,000, nearly all of
  it borrowed. He installs himself as publisher.
  Circulation 9,000.
• 1896, September 6 - An illustrated Sunday
  magazine begins, carrying the newspaper's first
  photographs.
• 1896, October 25 Adolph S. Ochs creates a
  slogan for the newspaper All the News Thats
  Fit to Print
• 1918, June 3 - The Times wins its first Pulitzer
  Prize, for public service in publishing the texts
  of dozens of official reports, documents and
  speeches about World War I.

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Some historical facts

• 1920, July 4 - Beginning an Independence Day
  tradition, The Times publishes a reproduction of
  the Declaration of Independence.
• 1937, February - The Times begins an editorial
  crusade, one of the most intensive in its
  history, against Franklin D. Roosevelts plan to
  pack the Supreme Court. "Though not fashioned by
  the hand of a dictator," it says, the plan
  "smacks of the dictators method.
• 1948, June 20 -The Times introduces an
  international edition. It is produced in New York
  and airmailed to Paris for publication a day
  later.

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Some historical facts

• 1964, March 9 - Supreme Court in the case called
  NYTimes Co v. Sullivan created a national rule,
  which revolutionized libel suits in the USA.
  Since 1964 it has become practically impossible
  for the public figures to sue any American
  newspaper for libel. It was one of the key
  decisions supporting the freedom of press.
• 1967, Spring - The Times discontinues its
  19-year-old international edition and joins with
  the owners of the defunct Herald Tribune and The
  Washington Post to publish The International
  Herald Tribune in Paris.

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Some historical facts

• 1971 - the New York Times and the Washington Post
  published The Pentagon Papers, a classified US
  Defence document about the US role in Vietnam
  War. Pentagon brought the issue to the Supreme
  Court, claiming that the papers had gone too far.
  The Court, however, ruled against Pentagon.
• 1980, August 18 - The Times begins publishing a
  national edition.

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Some historical facts

• 1996, January 19 - The Times on the Web
  www.nytimes.com goes online, giving readers
  anywhere in the world access to the newspaper's
  articles and pictures on the night of
  publication.
• 1997, October 16 - The first color photograph on
  the front page appeared.

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The New York Times magazine

• The NYT magazine is a supplement to the NYTimes
  newspaper Sunday issue.
• It was first published on September, 6, 1896 and
  carried the newspaper's first photographs.

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The New York Times magazine

• From the time of its creation the magazine
  covered those elements that were not included
  into the NYTimes newspaper fiction, gossip
  columns, photographs.
• Nowadays it focuses on everything from politics
  to social matters, art to entertainment.
• There was the tradition of publishing
• the writings of well-known NYT
• contributors.

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The New York Times magazine

• The NYT magazine captures the most highly charged
  moments in American culture and explores the
  compelling ideas, issues and personalities that
  define American world.

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The New York Times magazine

• In 1979 the magazine began publishing a column
  discussing issues of English grammar, use and
  etymology.
• In 2004 the NYTimes Magazine began publishing an
  entire supplement devoted to style. It is called
  T and is published 14 times a year.
• In 2005 there appeared a literary section called
  The Funny Pages but soon it became unpopular
  and unfunny.

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Sources

• 1) http//www.nytco.com
• 2) http//www.nytimes.whsites.net
• 3) http//www.nytimes.com
• 4)http//community.livejournal.com/nytimesinmoscow
  /profile
• 5)http//link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid
  28806281001?bctid27457638001 watch a video
  about the New York Times newspaper.
• 6) http//www.ffl.msu.ru/students/courses/3/freedo
  m of press
• 7) http//www.nytimes.com/pages/magazine