<P> Nicknamed "The Gray Lady", The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a national "newspaper of record". The paper's motto, "All the News That's Fit to Print", appears in the upper left - hand corner of the front page . </P> <P> Since the mid-1970s, The New York Times has greatly expanded its layout and organization, adding special weekly sections on various topics supplementing the regular news, editorials, sports, and features . Since 2008, The New York Times has been organized into the following sections: News, Editorials / Opinions - Columns / Op - Ed, New York (metropolitan), Business, Sports of The Times, Arts, Science, Styles, Home, Travel, and other features . On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review (formerly the Week in Review), The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T: The New York Times Style Magazine (T is published 13 times a year). The New York Times stayed with the broadsheet full page set - up (as some others have changed into a tabloid lay - out) and an eight - column format for several years after most papers switched to six, and was one of the last newspapers to adopt color photography, especially on the front page . </P> <P> The New York Times was founded as the New - York Daily Times on September 18, 1851 . Founded by journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond and former banker George Jones, the Times was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company . Early investors in the company included Edwin B. Morgan, Christopher Morgan, and Edward B. Wesley . Sold for a penny (equivalent to 29 cents today), the inaugural edition attempted to address various speculations on its purpose and positions that preceded its release: </P> <P> We shall be Conservative, in all cases where we think Conservatism essential to the public good;--and we shall be Radical in everything which may seem to us to require radical treatment and radical reform . We do not believe that everything in Society is either exactly right or exactly wrong;--what is good we desire to preserve and improve;--what is evil, to exterminate, or reform . </P>

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