Newspapers

The paper championed a new style of journalism at a time when the persistence of silence and constraint was more plausibly imagined than a world awash in personal truths.

In Martin Baron’s “Collision of Power” and Adam Nagourney’s “The Times,” two well-known journalists turn their investigative power on their institutions—and themselves.

A free and independent press is vital to preserve, but doing so requires the people running media companies to take that idea out of mothballs.

The paper’s publisher discusses bias in reporting, the Times’ financial comeback, and criticisms of its coverage of Trump, trans issues, and the war in Ukraine.

A. G. Sulzberger on why—in this age of deep political divides—he went public in defense of traditional journalistic values. Plus, a conversation with the poet Paul Tran.

After decades of exposing corruption in Guatemala, the journalist José Rubén Zamora has been jailed. Why can’t the U.S. help him?

A succession battle involving a fight for the patronage of Sarah Jessica Parker threatens to stop the presses at a Greenwich Village newspaper.

The editor, writer, publisher, and only subject of the sometimes weekly Jennifer Mills News considers stories such as “Woman Finds Hardboiled Egg in Purse.”

A Twitter bot shows how the newspaper has come to shape mainstream English usage.

After a decade of growth, the paper is laying off staff and was reportedly on track to lose money last year. Its publisher and C.E.O. says it’s all part of a bold strategy.

Investigative journalism matters—and so does community journalism.

The paper’s employees lost neighbors, acquaintances, and a daughter in a school shooting. Then they had to report the story.

A new book argues that what we say, and how we say it, affects whether radical ideas can change the world.

Jump-starting journalism in smaller, economically depressed places requires a degree of patience, and some tolerance for risk.

Some thoughts on the art of the newspaper lede.

The artist Fred Tomaselli spent the pandemic painting psychedelic designs and collaging over front pages of the Times—surreally mismatching headlines and photos, like the late Barry the Central Park Owl with the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal—now on display in a digital gallery show.

The journalists of Novaya Gazeta report on dangerous conflicts—and endure threats of their own.

A quirky Toronto broadsheet, beloved by Justin Trudeau and Margaret Atwood, gets tech support from an Ethereum founder.

The billionaire doctor has become one of Los Angeles’s most prominent civic leaders, after a boundary-pushing ascent in medicine.

A. J. Smitherman founded one of the country’s first Black-owned dailies. He addressed his eloquence and ire at both civic nuisances and the gravest injustices of American life.