<Li> Media of the United States </Li> <Li> List of newspapers </Li> <P> The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated NYT and The Times) is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851, by The New York Times Company . The New York Times has won 122 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper . The paper's print version in 2013 had the second - largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the United States . The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation . Following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million . </P> <P> Nicknamed "The Gray Lady", The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a national "newspaper of record". It has been owned by the Ochs - Sulzberger family since 1896; Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., the publisher of the Times and the chairman of the New York Times Company, is the fourth generation of the family to helm the paper . The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition . The paper's motto, "All the News That's Fit to Print", appears in the upper left - hand corner of the front page . </P>

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