The Times launched a continuously updated live briefing to guide readers through the firehose of daily updates on the Covid-19 pandemic. The briefing has involved the contributions of more than 1,100 journalists.
2020
History
Since 1851, The New York Times has been on the ground reporting stories from around the globe that no one else was telling. How we tell those stories has changed, but our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world has remained constant.
Bearing Witness
The Times has long deployed journalists to every corner of the world to witness history unfold, sometimes at personal risk.
Sydney H. Schanberg and Dith Pran of The Times remain in Cambodia when it falls to the Khmer Rouge regime. Their collaboration leads to a Pulitzer Prize and the Oscar-nominated film, “The Killing Fields.”
1975
William L. Laurence, a science reporter, is the only journalist to witness the bombing of Nagasaki. He writes the official history of the A-bomb project.
1945
Changing History
Fearless journalism can hold power to account and spur change.
The New York Times Magazine marked the anniversary of the first ship carrying enslaved Africans arriving in what would become the United States by launching The 1619 Project, which examines the many ways the legacy of slavery continues to shape and define life in the United States. The project has been read widely across the country, has been discussed in the Senate and is changing how American history is taught in schools today.
2019
The Times begins publishing a series of excerpts from the government’s classified history of the Vietnam War. Publication is interrupted after the Nixon administration goes to court to block it, and The Washington Post begins publishing the papers. On June 30 the Supreme Court, 6-3, allows the series to resume.
1971
A series of Times exposés brings down the corrupt Tweed Ring and ends its domination of City Hall. William Tweed is convicted of stealing millions of dollars from New York City taxpayers.
1871
Improving Lives
The Times gives reporters the resources they need to dig into a single story for months at a time. We do that because journalism has the ability to change lives for the better.
The secret histories of prominent men across industries who were accused of sexual harassment and misconduct that affected women ranging from actresses to factory workers to food servers were uncovered by The Times. These articles, which won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, set off workplace investigations, criminal inquiries — and the #MeToo movement.
2017
Unvarnished, a three-part series examining the working conditions and potential health risks endured by nail salon workers, publishes. In response to the series, New York State enacted new laws to protect nail salons workers. Governor Cuomo stated, “exploitation has no place in the state of New York.”
2015
An investigation in The Times led to a review of 50 Brooklyn murder cases and the exoneration of more than a dozen men by 2018.
2013