<Li> Media of the United States </Li> <Li> List of newspapers </Li> <P> The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership . Founded in 1851, the paper has won 122 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper . </P> <P> As of September 2016, it had the largest combined print - and - digital circulation of any daily newspaper in the United States . The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation . </P>

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