The New York Times

The New York Times
Typewebsite
ShortcutWP:NYTIMES
StatusGenerally reliable Generally reliable
Deprecatedno
Blacklistedno
Recency2024
Domain nytimes.com
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RfC
LinkRfc
Date2018


Summary

There is consensus that The New York Times is generally reliable. WP:RSOPINION should be used to evaluate opinion columns, while WP:NEWSBLOG should be used for the blogs on The New York Times's website. The 2018 RfC cites WP:MEDPOP to establish that popular press sources such as The New York Times should generally not be used to support medical claims.

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The New York Times (NYT)[a] is a newspaper based in Manhattan, New York City. The New York Times covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces and reviews. One of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the Times serves as one of the country's newspapers of record. As of August 2025, The New York Times had 11.88 million total and 11.3 million online subscribers, both the highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States by a significant margin; the total also included 580,000 print subscribers. The New York Times is published by the New York Times Company. Since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family. The current chairman and the paper's publisher is A. G. Sulzberger. The Times is headquartered at The New York Times Building in Midtown Manhattan.

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Recency

2024

Rfcs

  1. 2018 Rfc

Notes

  1. ↑ Also referred to as simply The Times[1] or the NY Times.[2] The New York Times uses the domain nytimes.com.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Diamond 2023.
  2. ↑ Campinoti & Frehse 2024.
  3. ↑ Lee 2013.

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The New York Times (NYT)
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WP:NYTIMESWP:NYTIMES 📌		 Generally reliable Request for comment 2018

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 There is consensus that The New York Times is generally reliable. WP:RSOPINION should be used to evaluate opinion columns, while WP:NEWSBLOG should be used for the blogs on The New York Times's website. The 2018 RfC cites WP:MEDPOP to establish that popular press sources such as The New York Times should generally not be used to support medical claims. 1 Links Spamcheck