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The New York Times, the Daily News, and the New York Post were the subject of a strike in 1978, [47] allowing emerging newspapers to leverage halted coverage. [48] The Times deliberately avoided coverage of the AIDS epidemic, running its first front-page article in May 1983.
The first issue of the New-York Daily Times on September 18, 1851. Seven newspapers in New York titled The New York Times existed before the Times in the early 1800s. [1] In 1851, journalists Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones working for Horace Greeley at the New-York Tribune formed Raymond, Jones & Company on August 5, 1851.
The New York Times focused on scientific news more than any other paper, an importance shared by E. W. Scripps of Scripps-Howard. Much of the Times ' s scientific coverage was done by John Swinton, an editorial writer. In 1860, Swinton wrote three and a half columns regarding the reprint of On the Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin.
The New York Post was established in 1801 making it the oldest daily newspaper in the U.S. [146] However it is not the oldest continuously published paper; as the New York Post halted publication during strikes in 1958 and in 1978. If this is considered, The Providence Journal is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the U.S. [147]
The company was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones in New York City. The first edition of the newspaper The New York Times, published on September 18, 1851, stated: "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."
By 1833, he had moved to Troy, New York, working in dry goods, and later in banking. After spending a few years in the area that would later become New York City, [2] he moved to and became a banker in Albany, New York. In Troy, on October 26, 1826, he married Sarah Maris Gilbert, daughter of Benjamin J. Gilbert, the leading merchant at the ...
The New York Times Almanac (NYTA) was an almanac published in the United States. [1] [2] There were two separate and distinct series of almanacs by this name. The first was originally published in 1969 by New York Times Books as the 1056 page The New York Times Encyclopedia Almanac 1970. A 16-page supplement with late breaking news was made ...
The New York Times resumed publication along with the Daily News on November 6, 1978, after 88 days of non-production, a new record. The newspapers reached an agreement with the unions representing the pressmen. [8] Jim Romenesko of Poynter praised the newspaper as the best parody of The New York Times. [9]