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class="m-featured-header__intro"> <p>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.</p> </div> </div> </header> <div class="m-module m-module-cta m-module-cta--black "> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117/https://www.nytco.com/company/history/our-history/" class="cta " target=""> <svg class="icon icon--arrow--32 icon--has-28" aria-hidden="true"><use xlink:href="/web/20200929230117im_/https://www.nytco.com/company/history/#icon--arrow--32" class="hide@small-"></use><use xlink:href="/web/20200929230117im_/https://www.nytco.com/company/history/#icon--arrow--28" class="hide@medium+"></use></svg> Explore Our History </a> </div> <section class="m-module m-module-collection"> <div class="m-module m-module-title m-module-title--intro"> <div class="m-module-title__inner"> <div class="m-module-title__main"> <h3 class="m-module-title__title a-title">Bearing Witness</h3> </div> <div class="m-module-title__intro"> <p>The Times has long deployed journalists to every corner of the world to witness history unfold, sometimes at personal risk.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="m-module m-module-list m-module-list--medium"> <div class="m-module-list__inner" data-list-items> <article class="m-card m-card--milestone"> <div class="m-card__inner"> <header class="m-card__main"> <h4 class="m-card__title">The New York Times launched its first narrative nonfiction podcast, “Caliphate” with Rukmini Callimachi as she reports on the Islamic State and the fall of Mosul. It is The Times’s most ambitious form of audio storytelling to date.</h4> <span class="m-card__subtitle">2018</span> </header> <figure class="m-card__image"> <div class="a-image"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/10/Rukmini-black-and-white.jpg?quality=10&auto=webp&width=100&crop=1:1" alt="" class="" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/10/Rukmini-black-and-white.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=400 400w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/10/Rukmini-black-and-white.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=600 600w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/10/Rukmini-black-and-white.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=800 800w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/10/Rukmini-black-and-white.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=1200 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 1920px) 1776px, (min-width: 1700px) calc(100vw-144px), (min-width: 1300px) calc(100vw-120px), (min-width: 1000px) calc(100vw-80px), (min-width: 700px) calc(100vw-56px), (min-width: 500px) calc(100vw-32px), calc(100vw-32px)"> </div> </figure> </div> </article> <article class="m-card m-card--milestone"> <div class="m-card__inner"> <header class="m-card__main"> <h4 class="m-card__title">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.”</h4> <span class="m-card__subtitle">1975</span> </header> <figure class="m-card__image"> <div class="a-image"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/Shanberg-Pran-6x6-crop.jpg?quality=10&auto=webp&width=100&crop=1:1" alt="" class="" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/Shanberg-Pran-6x6-crop.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=400 400w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/Shanberg-Pran-6x6-crop.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=600 600w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/Shanberg-Pran-6x6-crop.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=800 800w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/Shanberg-Pran-6x6-crop.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=1200 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 1920px) 1776px, (min-width: 1700px) calc(100vw-144px), (min-width: 1300px) calc(100vw-120px), (min-width: 1000px) calc(100vw-80px), (min-width: 700px) calc(100vw-56px), (min-width: 500px) calc(100vw-32px), calc(100vw-32px)"> </div> </figure> </div> </article> <article class="m-card m-card--milestone"> <div class="m-card__inner"> <header class="m-card__main"> <h4 class="m-card__title">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.</h4> <span class="m-card__subtitle">1945</span> </header> <figure class="m-card__image"> <div class="a-image"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/laurence_portrait-1945-square.jpg?quality=10&auto=webp&width=100&crop=1:1" alt="" class="" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/laurence_portrait-1945-square.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=400 400w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/laurence_portrait-1945-square.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=600 600w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/laurence_portrait-1945-square.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=800 800w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/laurence_portrait-1945-square.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=1200 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 1920px) 1776px, (min-width: 1700px) calc(100vw-144px), (min-width: 1300px) calc(100vw-120px), (min-width: 1000px) calc(100vw-80px), (min-width: 700px) calc(100vw-56px), (min-width: 500px) calc(100vw-32px), calc(100vw-32px)"> </div> </figure> </div> </article> </div> </div> <div class="m-module m-module-cta m-module-cta--black "> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117/https://www.nytco.com/milestone-collection/bearing-witness/" class="cta " target=""> <svg class="icon icon--arrow--32 icon--has-28" aria-hidden="true"><use xlink:href="/web/20200929230117im_/https://www.nytco.com/company/history/#icon--arrow--32" class="hide@small-"></use><use xlink:href="/web/20200929230117im_/https://www.nytco.com/company/history/#icon--arrow--28" class="hide@medium+"></use></svg> Explore Bearing Witness </a> </div> </section> <section class="m-module m-module-collection"> <div class="m-module m-module-title m-module-title--intro"> <div class="m-module-title__inner"> <div class="m-module-title__main"> <h3 class="m-module-title__title a-title">Changing History</h3> </div> <div class="m-module-title__intro"> <p>Fearless journalism can hold power to account and spur change.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="m-module m-module-list m-module-list--medium"> <div class="m-module-list__inner" data-list-items> <article class="m-card m-card--milestone"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html" class="m-card__inner" target="_blank"> <header class="m-card__main"> <h4 class="m-card__title">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.</h4> <span class="m-card__subtitle">2019</span> </header> <figure class="m-card__image"> <div class="a-image"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2019/11/1619Cover_WEB-USETHIS3.jpg?quality=10&auto=webp&width=100&crop=1:1" alt="" class="" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2019/11/1619Cover_WEB-USETHIS3.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=400 400w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2019/11/1619Cover_WEB-USETHIS3.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=600 600w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2019/11/1619Cover_WEB-USETHIS3.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=800 800w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2019/11/1619Cover_WEB-USETHIS3.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=1200 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 1920px) 1776px, (min-width: 1700px) calc(100vw-144px), (min-width: 1300px) calc(100vw-120px), (min-width: 1000px) calc(100vw-80px), (min-width: 700px) calc(100vw-56px), (min-width: 500px) calc(100vw-32px), calc(100vw-32px)"> </div> </figure> </a> </article> <article class="m-card m-card--milestone"> <div class="m-card__inner"> <header class="m-card__main"> <h4 class="m-card__title">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.</h4> <span class="m-card__subtitle">1971</span> </header> <figure class="m-card__image"> <div class="a-image"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/1971_Jul_01_PentagonPapers-square-gray.jpg?quality=10&auto=webp&width=100&crop=1:1" alt="" class="" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/1971_Jul_01_PentagonPapers-square-gray.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=400 400w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/1971_Jul_01_PentagonPapers-square-gray.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=600 600w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/1971_Jul_01_PentagonPapers-square-gray.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=800 800w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/1971_Jul_01_PentagonPapers-square-gray.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=1200 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 1920px) 1776px, (min-width: 1700px) calc(100vw-144px), (min-width: 1300px) calc(100vw-120px), (min-width: 1000px) calc(100vw-80px), (min-width: 700px) calc(100vw-56px), (min-width: 500px) calc(100vw-32px), calc(100vw-32px)"> </div> </figure> </div> </article> <article class="m-card m-card--milestone"> <div class="m-card__inner"> <header class="m-card__main"> <h4 class="m-card__title">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.</h4> <span class="m-card__subtitle">1871</span> </header> <figure class="m-card__image"> <div class="a-image"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/Boss-Tweed-cartoon-cropped.jpg?quality=10&auto=webp&width=100&crop=1:1" alt="" class="" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/Boss-Tweed-cartoon-cropped.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=400 400w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/Boss-Tweed-cartoon-cropped.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=600 600w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/Boss-Tweed-cartoon-cropped.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=800 800w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/09/Boss-Tweed-cartoon-cropped.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=1200 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 1920px) 1776px, (min-width: 1700px) calc(100vw-144px), (min-width: 1300px) calc(100vw-120px), (min-width: 1000px) calc(100vw-80px), (min-width: 700px) calc(100vw-56px), (min-width: 500px) calc(100vw-32px), calc(100vw-32px)"> </div> </figure> </div> </article> </div> </div> <div class="m-module m-module-cta m-module-cta--black "> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117/https://www.nytco.com/milestone-collection/changing-history/" class="cta " target=""> <svg class="icon icon--arrow--32 icon--has-28" aria-hidden="true"><use xlink:href="/web/20200929230117im_/https://www.nytco.com/company/history/#icon--arrow--32" class="hide@small-"></use><use xlink:href="/web/20200929230117im_/https://www.nytco.com/company/history/#icon--arrow--28" class="hide@medium+"></use></svg> Explore Changing History </a> </div> </section> <section class="m-module m-module-collection"> <div class="m-module m-module-title m-module-title--intro"> <div class="m-module-title__inner"> <div class="m-module-title__main"> <h3 class="m-module-title__title a-title">Improving Lives</h3> </div> <div class="m-module-title__intro"> <p>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.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="m-module m-module-list m-module-list--medium"> <div class="m-module-list__inner" data-list-items> <article class="m-card m-card--milestone"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117/https://www.nytco.com/award-collection/harassment-coverage/" class="m-card__inner" target=""> <header class="m-card__main"> <h4 class="m-card__title">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.</h4> <span class="m-card__subtitle">2017</span> </header> <figure class="m-card__image"> <div class="a-image"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/10/Getty-AFP_12T4GE-square.jpg?quality=10&auto=webp&width=100&crop=1:1" alt="" class="" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/10/Getty-AFP_12T4GE-square.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=400 400w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/10/Getty-AFP_12T4GE-square.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=600 600w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/10/Getty-AFP_12T4GE-square.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=800 800w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/10/Getty-AFP_12T4GE-square.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=1200 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 1920px) 1776px, (min-width: 1700px) calc(100vw-144px), (min-width: 1300px) calc(100vw-120px), (min-width: 1000px) calc(100vw-80px), (min-width: 700px) calc(100vw-56px), (min-width: 500px) calc(100vw-32px), calc(100vw-32px)"> </div> </figure> </a> </article> <article class="m-card m-card--milestone"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/nyregion/at-nail-salons-in-nyc-manicurists-are-underpaid-and-unprotected.html" class="m-card__inner" target="_blank"> <header class="m-card__main"> <h4 class="m-card__title">Unvarnished, a three-part series examining the working conditions and potential health risks endured by nail salon workers, publishes. 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Governor Cuomo stated, “exploitation has no place in the state of New York.”</h4> <span class="m-card__subtitle">2015</span> </header> <figure class="m-card__image"> <div class="a-image"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/10/Bengiveno113839.jpg?quality=10&auto=webp&width=100&crop=1:1" alt="" class="" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/10/Bengiveno113839.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=400 400w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/10/Bengiveno113839.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=600 600w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/10/Bengiveno113839.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=800 800w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/10/Bengiveno113839.jpg?quality=70&auto=webp&crop=1:1&width=1200 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 1920px) 1776px, (min-width: 1700px) calc(100vw-144px), (min-width: 1300px) calc(100vw-120px), (min-width: 1000px) calc(100vw-80px), (min-width: 700px) calc(100vw-56px), (min-width: 500px) calc(100vw-32px), calc(100vw-32px)"> </div> </figure> </a> </article> <article class="m-card m-card--milestone"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/nyregion/doubts-about-detective-haunt-50-murder-cases.html" class="m-card__inner" target="_blank"> <header class="m-card__main"> <h4 class="m-card__title">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.</h4> <span class="m-card__subtitle">2013</span> </header> <figure class="m-card__image"> <div class="a-image"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200929230117im_/https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-13-at-5.38.53-PM.png?quality=10&auto=webp&width=100&crop=1:1" alt="" class="" 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