2020.2.7

The New York Times Tops 5 Million Subscriptions as Ads Decline

By MARC TRACY

The company hit a milestone in the fourth quarter, passing $800 million in annual digital revenue, an amount that came more from readers than advertisers.

2019.5.14 The New York Times for Kids -

The New York Times for Kids - The New York Times Licensing Group

https://nytlicensing.com/special-packages/opportunities/new-york-times-kids/

The New York Times for Kids mimics the form of a conventional newspaper, and approaches the news with a focus on what matters most to younger readers.

An Engaging Mix of Times Journalism for Children

Empower younger audiences to understand the world they live in, with quality storytelling created and edited specifically for children aged 8-13. The New York Times for Kids mimics the form of a conventional newspaper, and approaches the news with a focus on what matters most to younger readers. From learning how schools prepare for natural disasters to the best recipe for homemade slime – this special section broadens children’s perspectives and keeps them informed.

版面真有趣啊，我都想收藏……。

CACAOMAG.CO

《紐約時報》兒童版：誰說孩子們不需要有專為他們製作的新聞？｜cacao 可口雜誌

Number of employees. 3,700 (December 2017). Website, www.nytco.com.

The New York Times’s annual diversity report shows that women now make up 51 percent of our staff, and people of color represent 30 percent; both have increased in recent years.

The New York Times now has a new high of 4.3 million total paid subscriptions, according to the company. It wants 10 million by 2025.

關於這個網站

CNN.COM

The New York Times 'wants 10 million subscribers by 2025'

2016.4.17

我在月前發覺NYT網站多了西班牙文版

《紐約時報》宣布全球擴張計劃

SYDNEY EMBER 18:26

紐約時報公司將在未來三年投資5000萬美元，擴大時報的全球數字受眾群體，增加美國以外市場的營收。時報主管稱，海外市場潛力發巨大，值得挖掘。國際新聞主編周看(Joe Kahn)將負責NYT Global的采編戰略。國際部總裁史蒂芬·丹巴-約翰遜(Stephen Dunbar-Johnson)將主持商務運營。國際部副主編莉迪亞·博爾格林(Lydia Polgreen)將負責NYT Global的編務。

各位主管在備忘錄中寫道：20世紀90年代，《紐約時報》突破了本地界限，成為一份全國性的報紙，他們現在看到一個「機會」，突破國界，「成為全球新聞評論界不可或缺的領導者」。

去年10月，時報制定了發展戰略，到2020年做到數字內容營收翻倍，從2014年的4億美元達到8億美元。備忘錄說：公司還在「為我們的國際增長制定更遠大的目標」。

美國備受尊崇的老牌新聞媒體紐約時報不敵數位浪潮，將裁員 100 名新聞人員，約占整體新聞部門 8%。市場直接聯想到的是，紐約時報推出多種應用程式的數位新策略似乎出師不利。

據 Re/code 報導，《紐約時報》四個月前推出每月 6 美元的應用程式 NYTOpinion app，因消費者似乎不怎麼買單，紐時已準備收掉這個應用程式。另外一個應用程式 NYT Now，是《紐約時報》編輯挑選出的精選新聞，屬於應用內購買，一個月可免費看 10 則新聞，看更多的話一個月需付 240 台幣，的確吸引很多年輕一代習慣使用手機閱讀新聞的族群，但並沒有成功將這些人導入網站閱讀，紐時才發現手機與網站新聞產品必須分開。《紐約時報》剛推出的美食應用程式，目前是完全免費。

由於紙本與線上廣告營收持續下滑，《紐約時報》的數位訂閱營收攸關這家老牌新聞品牌的未來，但現在看起來，數位訂閱戶好像已經碰到成長瓶頸，可能是紐時決定裁員的主要原因。專家替紐時預估他們最多會有 100 萬數位訂閱戶，願意付每個月 15-30 美元閱讀紐時新聞，但截至目前為止，網站加上應用程式訂閱戶只有 87 萬，今年前三季新增 13 萬人。

紐時的內部員工信件當中，除了裁員訊息外，也將近期紐時推出的各種新聞產品成效公開，以及明白告知員工未來的調整策略，同時也透露些許好消息，《紐約時報》本季數位廣告成長 15%，是 2010 年以來表現最好的季度，紙本廣告九月底時也略見起色，今年本季廣告營收應該持平，先前預期本季會出現個位數衰退。

*****

我的一位朋友不知道《紐約時報》有中文版。

朋友問要怎樣找它? 我知道他可以讀英文版網站，就請他到New York Time 網站第一頁。或http://cn.nytimes.com/zh-hant/

它的中文網也沒發行資料。幸虧網路上可找到。

《纽约时报》今天推出中文网站-观察者网 Jun 28, 2012

它的beta(試用)版問題還有，譬如說中文的標點轉換等有錯.

又譬如說今天的熱門文章排行有重複問題:

第一名: 广岛到福岛，他用生命记录真相

第八名: 从广岛到福岛，他用生命记录

其實它們是同一篇文章。

2014.1.8

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THE PUBLIC EDITOR

The Thorny Challenge of Covering China

By MARGARET SULLIVAN December 10, 2013

HOW do major American news organizations write about a Communist country with the world’s second-largest economy — a country that doesn’t believe in press rights and that punishes tough-minded coverage?

Aggressively? Cautiously? Fearlessly? Competitively?

The country is China. The news organizations include The New York Times, as well as its closest competitors. And those questions are on the minds of top editors and executives of news organizations. The Chinese market is a lucrative one, important to their profitability; and, separately, news value is high. There are crucial stories to be reported in this fast-changing nation of more than 1.3 billion people, the most populous country in the world.

The answers are playing out on newspaper front pages and websites, in newsroom personnel decisions and on corporate balance sheets.

Consider some of what’s happened:

• Last year, The Times published a story by David Barboza about the enormous wealth of China’s ruling family. The article won a Pulitzer Prize — and caused the Chinese government to shut down The Times’s website in China, an important part of its growth as a global business, at a cost of about $3 million in lost revenue to The Times so far.

• On Nov. 9, The Times published an article on its front page about one of its chief business-news competitors, Bloomberg News, describing how the organization had decided against the planned publication of an article for fear of reprisal by the Chinese government. The Times story, which came from unidentified Bloomberg employees, included denials by Bloomberg news executives, including the editor in chief, Matthew Winkler, that the story was killed.

A few days later, Bloomberg made a written complaint to me, through its ethics consultant Tom Goldstein, a former Columbia journalism dean. Mr. Goldstein called the article unfair and inaccurate. He criticized The Times for “sabotaging a competitor” by describing the news in the unpublished article.

After I began investigating the complaint by interviewing journalists at Bloomberg and at The Times, Bloomberg postponed and then canceled my scheduled interview with Mr. Winkler. A public relations representative told me that a follow-up Times article on Nov. 25 — a broader look at Bloomberg’s corporate mission — was “much more accurate” and made the interview unnecessary.

Bloomberg’s insistence that its China exposé simply wasn’t ready for publication, and that therefore the original Times story was invalid, is off the point. The core of the Times story had to do with media self-censorship in China: A top American news executive’s telling his reporters that a story was being pulled back at least partly because it might get their news organization kicked out of the country. The details of Mr. Winkler’s conference call, in which he spoke to the reporters, are “verifiable,” The Times’s foreign editor, Joseph Kahn, told me. Other journalists, inside and outside The Times, mentioned the existence of audio recordings of that call.

I believe the initial Times article was essentially solid — and certainly eye-opening. Still, one can reasonably question whether it was sound judgment to put an article focused on a competitor’s news decision at the top of The Times’s front page.

• Fortune magazine reported last week that Chinese authorities barged into Bloomberg News offices in Shanghai and Beijing to conduct inspections shortly after The Times wrote about the disputed and still unpublished article. Chinese officials also demanded an apology from Mr. Winkler, Fortune reported. Mr. Winkler has built Bloomberg News into a top-flight news organization, one that has clearly done some of the best reporting from China. Publicly, Bloomberg has continued to say that its article was held back for more reporting, not permanently killed. One of the reporters of that article, Michael Forsythe, was suspended from Bloomberg; he later left the company. It would not be surprising if Mr. Forsythe soon joined the reporting staff of The Times.

• American reporters in China are having problems getting their residency visas renewed and soon may be forced to leave the country. What once was “an annual nonevent” has become “a very big worry,” said Jill Abramson, the executive editor at The Times. “I’m concerned that we won’t be able to do the unfettered coverage we need to do for our readers.”

The Times has a dozen people reporting on China who have New York Times accreditations from the Chinese government, including a photographer and a videographer. All are in Beijing except Mr. Barboza, who is based in Shanghai. The Times also has several correspondents and an editing operation in Hong Kong.

• The websites of The Wall Street Journal and Reuters were both recently blocked, and Bloomberg’s has been blocked for many months. And after officials ordered some companies to stop paying for Bloomberg’s data terminals — central to the company’s distinctive business model — the growth in sales slowed in China, a major potential market.

In short, the stakes are high and the circumstances difficult, both for newsgathering and for news-based businesses.

From a news perspective, The Times has an advantage: It is still that rarity, a family-owned news organization. As Ms. Abramson noted, its publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., “doesn’t flinch” from running critical China stories.

James L. McGregor, former Beijing bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, offered this blunt assessment in The Times’s Nov. 25 article:

“It’s looking increasingly like as a media company, you have a choice in China. You either do news or you do business, but it’s hard to do both.”

So far, The Times — and, to varying degrees, its competitors — has continued to “do news.” That’s worthwhile, and challenging, and not very likely to get easier.

《紐約時報》做生意更做新聞

瑪格麗特·沙利文 2013年12月10日

對於一個經濟總量居世界第二位的共產主義國家，一個不保護媒體權利、對意志頑強的報道施以責罰的國家，美國的主要新聞媒體該如何報道？

激烈強硬？小心翼翼？無所畏懼？你爭我奪？

檢視大圖
瑪格麗特·沙利文。

這個國家就是中國。這些新聞機構包括《紐約時報》以及它幾個實力最接近的競爭者。上述問題正在這些新聞機構高層的編輯和管理人員腦海里盤旋。中國市場有利可圖，對它們的盈利能力至關重要；另一方面，中國的新聞價值又很高——兩者並非一回事。這個擁有超過13億人口的全球第一人口大國正在發生飛速的變革，有許多重要的消息需要報道。

問題的答案正在報紙頭版、網站、新聞采編室的人員任免和企業的資產負債表上體現出來。

看看都發生了什麼吧：

去年，《紐約時報》發表了張大衛(David Barboza)撰寫的關於中國統治者家族擁有大量財富的報道。這篇文章贏得了普利策獎——也促使中國政府在中國境內封鎖《紐約時報》的網站，這個網站是它作為一家跨國公司的增長的重要部分，到目前為止已經令紐約時報公司損失了大約300萬美元的營收。

11月9日，《紐約時報》在頭版發表了一篇關於其主要商業新聞競爭者彭博新聞社的文章，報道稱，這家機構因為擔心中國政府的報復行動，決定放棄原計劃發表的一篇文章。《紐約時報》的報道來自一些不具名的彭博僱員透露的信息，報道談到，包括主編溫以樂(Matthew Winkler)在內的彭博新聞社的高管否認這篇報道被斃。

幾天後，彭博社通過其新聞道德顧問、前哥倫比亞大學新聞系主任湯姆·戈德斯坦(Tom Goldstein)向我發出了書面投訴。戈德斯坦稱這篇報道有失公平，而且不準確。他批評《紐約時報》談論未發表文章中的新聞是「蓄意傷害競爭對手」。

在我開始和彭博以及《紐約時報》的記者談話以調查這樁投訴之後，彭博推遲並隨後取消了我原本和溫以樂約定好的採訪。一名公關代表告訴我，《紐約時報》11月25日的一篇跟進報道——從更大的視角看待彭博的企業使命——「精確得多」，因此採訪已經沒有必要。

彭博堅持說，關於中國的曝光報道只不過是還沒準備好發表，因此《紐約時報》最初的報道是不準確的，這個說法偏離了主題。《紐約時報》這篇報道的核心與媒體在中國的自我審查有關：一家美國新聞媒體的高管告訴記者，報道之所以被撤回，至少有一部分原因是它可能導致他們的機構被踢出這個國家。《紐約時報》的國際新聞編輯周看(Joseph Kahn)告訴我，溫以樂在電話會議上對記者發表了講話，這是「可以核實的」。還有一些記者，其中有時報內部人士，也有外界的記者，都提到那次電話會議是有錄音的。

我相信《紐約時報》的文章從根本上是經得起推敲的——而且無疑是令人大開眼界的。儘管如此，人們還是有理由質疑，把一篇以競爭對手的新聞決策為主題的文章放在《紐約時報》頭版上是否明智。

《財富》(Fortune)雜誌上周報道，就在《紐約時報》報道了這篇引發爭議並且仍然沒有發表的文章之後不久，中國政府闖進了彭博新聞社在上海和北京的辦公室進行突擊檢查。據《財富》報道，中國官員還要求溫以樂道歉。溫以樂已經將彭博新聞社打造成了一家頂級新聞機構，在中國已經發表了一些非常優秀的報道。彭博在公開場合仍然表示，這篇文章被擱置是為了進一步的報道，不是被徹底棄用。該文的記者之一傅才德(Michael Forsythe)被停職；後來離開了公司。如果傅才德不久之後加入了《紐約時報》的報道隊伍，大家應該不會感到意外。

美國媒體的駐華記者在續簽居留簽證問題上遇到了麻煩，或許很快會被迫離境。《紐約時報》執行主編吉爾·阿布拉姆松(Jill Abramson)稱，以往的「年度小事」已成為「一大憂患」。「我擔心，我們將不再能夠向我們的讀者提供未加約束的新聞報道。」

時報公司有十多位從事中國報道的人員擁有中國政府頒發的《紐約時報》記者資質，其中包括一名攝影師和一名攝像師。除了在上海的張大衛，其餘的人都在北京。《紐約時報》還在香港有一個編輯部門及數名記者。

《華爾街日報》(The Wall Street Journal)和路透社(Reuters)的中文網站最近被封，彭博則已經被封許久。中國官方下令部分企業停止購買彭博的數據終端機——該公司特有的商業模式的核心——之後，公司在中國這一主要潛在市場的銷售出現放緩。

簡而言之，不管是做新聞還是做基於新聞的生意，都是風險巨大，處境艱難。

從新聞的角度看，《紐約時報》存在一項優勢：它仍是罕有的由家族擁有的新聞機構。正如阿布拉姆松稱指出的，在刊發有關中國的批評性報道時，出版人小阿瑟·蘇茲伯格(Arthur Sulzberger Jr.)「不會退縮」。

在《紐約時報》11月25日發表的文章中，《華爾街日報》(The Wall Street Journal)北京分社前社長麥健陸(James McGregor)作出了直白的評論：

「事情似乎越來越明顯，作為一個媒體公司，你在中國面臨著一個選擇：要麼做新聞，要麼做生意，但你很難兩樣都做。」

迄今為止，《紐約時報》在繼續「做新聞」——競爭對手們也在做，只是程度各有不同。這是值得的，也是困難的，而且很可能會變得難上加難。

《紐約時報》考慮是否關閉中文網

更新時間 2013年11月27日, 格林尼治標準時間20:12

紐約時報有關溫家寶家人聚斂財富的報道令中國當局不快

美國《紐約時報》首席執行官馬克·湯普森說，《紐約時報》正在審議自己所有的虧損業務，包括《紐約時報》中文網。

《紐約時報》中文網在2012年10月發表了一篇有關中國總理溫家寶家人聚斂財富的報道。

Today

The newspaper's cover price in the United Kingdom is £1 on weekdays (40p for students at some university campus shops) and £1.50 on Saturday. The Times's sister paper, The Sunday Times, is a broadsheet and priced at £2.20. Although The Times and The Sunday Times are both owned by News International, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp, they do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have shared the same owner only since 1967. In November 2006 The Times began printing headlines in its new font, Times Modern.

History

The Times was founded by John Walter on 1 January 1785 as The Daily Universal Register, with Walter in the role of editor. Walter changed the title after 940 editions on 1 January 1788 to The Times. In 1803, John Walter handed ownership and editorship to his son of the same name. John Walter Sr. had already spent sixteen months in Newgate prison for libel printed in The Times, but his pioneering efforts to obtain Continental news, especially from France, helped build the paper's reputation among policy makers and financiers.
The Times used contributions from significant figures in the fields of politics, science, literature, and the arts to build its reputation. For much of its early life, the profits of The Times were very large and the competition minimal, so it could pay far better than its rivals for information or writers.
In 1809, John Stoddart was appointed general editor, replaced in 1817 with Thomas Barnes. Under Barnes and his successor in 1841, John Thadeus Delane, the influence of The Times rose to great heights, especially in politics and amongst the City of London. Peter Fraser and Edward Sterling were two noted journalists, and gained for The Times the pompous/satirical nickname 'The Thunderer' (from "We thundered out the other day an article on social and political reform.").The increased circulation and influence of the paper was based in part to its early adoption of the steam driven rotary printing press. Distribution via steam trains to rapidly growing concentrations of urban populations helped ensure the profitability of the paper and its growing influence.^[6]
The Times was the first newspaper to send war correspondents to cover particular conflicts. W. H. Russell, the paper's correspondent with the army in the Crimean War, was immensely influential^[7] with his dispatches back to England.

A wounded British officer reading The Times's report of the end of the Crimean war, in John Everett Millais' painting Peace Concluded.

In other events of the nineteenth century, The Times opposed the repeal of the Corn Laws^{[citation needed]} until the number of demonstrations convinced the editorial board otherwise, and only reluctantly supported aid to victims of the Irish Potato Famine. It enthusiastically supported the Great Reform Bill of 1832 which reduced corruption and increased the electorate from 400 000 people to 800 000 people (still a small minority of the population). During the American Civil War, The Times represented the view of the wealthy classes, favouring the secessionists, but it was not a supporter of slavery.
The third John Walter (the founder's grandson) succeeded his father in 1847. The paper continued as more or less independent. From the 1850s, however, The Times was beginning to suffer from the rise in competition from the penny press, notably The Daily Telegraph and The Morning Post.
The Times faced financial extinction in 1890 under Arthur Fraser Walter, but it was rescued by an energetic editor, Charles Frederic Moberly Bell. During his tenure (1890–1911), The Times became associated with selling the Encyclopædia Britannica using aggressive American marketing methods introduced by Horace Everett Hooper and his advertising executive, Henry Haxton. However, due to legal fights between the Britannica's two owners, Hooper and Walter Montgomery Jackson, The Times severed its connection in 1908 and was bought by pioneering newspaper magnate, Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe.
In editorials published on 29 and 31 July 1914 Wickham Steed, the Times's Chief Editor argued that the British Empire should enter World War I.^[8] On 8 May 1920, under the editorship of Wickham Steed, the Times in an editorial endorsed the anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion as a genuine document, and called Jews the world’s greatest danger. The following year, when Philip Graves, the Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey) correspondent of the Times exposed The Protocols as a forgery, the Times retracted the editorial of the previous year.
In 1922, John Jacob Astor, a son of the 1st Viscount Astor, bought The Times from the Northcliffe estate. The paper gained a measure of notoriety in the 1930s with its advocacy of German appeasement; then-editor Geoffrey Dawson was closely allied with those in the government who practised appeasement^{[citation needed]}, most notably Neville Chamberlain.
Kim Philby, a Soviet double agent, served as a correspondent for the newspaper in Spain during the Spanish Civil War of the late 1930s. Philby was admired for his courage in obtaining high-quality reporting from the front lines of the bloody conflict. He later joined MI6 during World War II, was promoted into senior positions after the war ended, then eventually defected to the Soviet Union in 1963.^[9]
Between 1941-1946, the left-wing British historian E. H. Carr served as Assistant Editor. Carr was well-known for the strongly pro-Soviet tone of his editorials.^[10] In December 1944, when fighting broke out in Athens between the Greek Communist ELAS and the British Army, Carr in a Times editorial sided with the Communists, leading Winston Churchill to condemn him and that leader in a speech to the House of Commons.^[11] As a result of Carr’s editorial, the Times became popularly known during World War II as the threepenny Daily Worker (the price of the Daily Worker was one penny)^[12]
In 1967, members of the Astor family sold the paper to Canadian publishing magnate Roy Thomson, and on 3 May 1966 it started printing news on the front page for the first time. (Previously, the paper's front page featured small advertisements, usually of interest to the moneyed classes in British society.^{[citation needed]}) The Thomson Corporation merged it with The Sunday Times to form Times Newspapers Limited.
An industrial dispute prompted the management to shut the paper for nearly a year (1 December 1978–12 November 1979).
The Thomson Corporation management were struggling to run the business due to the 1979 Energy Crisis and union demands. Management were left with no choice but to save both titles by finding a buyer who was in a position to guarantee the survival of both titles, and also one who had the resources and was committed to funding the introduction of modern printing methods.
Several suitors appeared, including Robert Maxwell, Tiny Rowland and Lord Rothermere; however, only one buyer was in a position to fulfil the full Thomson remit. That buyer was the Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch.

Rupert Murdoch

In 1981, The Times and The Sunday Times were purchased from Thomson by Rupert Murdoch's News International.
Murdoch soon began making his mark on the paper, replacing its editor, William Rees-Mogg, with Harold Evans in 1981. One of his most important changes was in the introduction of new technology and efficiency measures. In March–May 1982, following agreement with print unions, the hot-metal Linotype printing process used to print The Times since the 19th century was phased out and replaced by computer input and photo-composition. This allowed the staff of the print rooms of The Times and The Sunday Times to be reduced by half^{[citation needed]}. However, direct input of text by journalists ("single stroke" input) was still not achieved, and this was to remain an interim measure until the Wapping dispute of 1986, which saw The Times move from its home at New Printing House Square in Gray's Inn Road (near Fleet Street) to new offices in Wapping.^[13]
In June 1990, The Times ceased its policy of using courtesy titles ("Mr", "Mrs", or "Miss" prefixes for living persons) before full names on first reference, but it continues to use them before surnames on subsequent references. The more formal style is now confined to the "Court and Social" page, though "Ms" is now acceptable in that section, as well as before surnames in news sections.
In November 2003, News International began producing the newspaper in both broadsheet and tabloid sizes. On 13 September 2004, the weekday broadsheet was withdrawn from sale in Northern Ireland. Since 1 November 2004, the paper has been printed solely in tabloid format.
The Conservative Party announced plans to launch litigation against The Times over an incident in which the newspaper claimed that Conservative election strategist Lynton Crosby had admitted that his party would not win the 2005 General Election. The Times later published a clarification, and the litigation was dropped.
On 6 June 2005, The Times redesigned its Letters page, dropping the practice of printing correspondents' full postal addresses. Published letters were long regarded as one of the paper's key constituents. Author/solicitor David Green of Castle Morris Pembrokeshire has had more letters published on the main letters page than any known contributor - 158 by 31 January 2008. According to its leading article, "From Our Own Correspondents", removal of full postal addresses was in order to fit more letters onto the page.
In a 2007 meeting with the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications who were investigating media ownership and the news, Murdoch stated that the law and the independent board prevented him from exercising editorial control.^[14]
In May 2008 printing of The Times switched from Wapping to new plants at Broxbourne, on the outskirts of London, Merseyside and Glasgow, enabling the paper to be produced with full colour on every page for the first time.

Controversy and image

Long considered the UK's newspaper of record, The Times is generally seen as a serious publication with high standards of journalism. It is not without trenchant critics: Robert Fisk,^[15] seven time British International Journalist of the Year,^[16] resigned as foreign correspondent in 1988 over what he saw as "political censorship" of his article on the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 in July 1988.
Its partisan opinion pieces also damage its status as 'paper of record,' particularly when attacking interests that go against those of its parent company - News International - as demonstrated by a loaded opinion piece attacking the BBC for being 'one of a group of' signatories to a letter criticising BSkyB share options in October 2010^[17]

Readership profile and image

The British Business Survey 2005 named The Times as the UK's leading daily newspaper for business people. This independent survey was sponsored by The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Economist, and The Times.
The latest figures from the national readership survey show The Times to have the highest number of ABC1 25–44 readers and the largest numbers of readers in London of any of the "quality" papers.^[18] The certified average circulation figures for November 2005 show that The Times sold 692,581 copies per day. This was the highest achieved under the last editor, Robert Thomson, and ensured that the newspaper remained ahead of The Daily Telegraph in terms of full rate sales, although the Telegraph remains the market leader for broadsheets, with a circulation of 905,955 copies. Tabloid newspapers, such as The Sun and middle-market newspapers such as the Daily Mail, at present outsell both papers with a circulation of around 3,005,308 and 2,082,352 respectively.[6]^{[citation needed]} In the face of competition from the Internet and 24-hour TV news channels, by March 2010 the paper's circulation had fallen to 502,436 copies daily and the Telegraph's to 686,679, according to ABC figures.

Format and supplements

The Times features news for the first half of the paper with the leading articles on the second page, the Opinion/Comment section begins after the first news section, the world news normally follows this. The business pages begin on the centre spread, and are followed by The Register, containing obituaries, Court & Social section, and related material. The sport section is at the end of the main paper.

Literary Supplement

Main article: The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is a separately-paid-for weekly literature and society magazine.

Science Reviews

Main article: The Times Science Review

Between 1951 and 1966 The Times published a separately-paid-for quarterly science review, The Times Science Review. Remarkably, in 1953 both the newspaper and its science supplement failed to report on the discovery of the structure of DNA in Cambridge, which was reported on by both the News Chronicle and The New York Times.
The Times started another new (but free) monthly science magazine, Eureka, in October 2009.

times2

The Times's main supplement was the times2, featuring various lifestyle columns.^{[clarification needed]} It was discontinued on 1 March 2010, most of its regular features being absorbed into the main paper, the puzzles into a new supplement called Mind Games. Its previous incarnation began on 5 September 2005, before which it was called T2 and previously Times 2. Regular features included columns by a different columnist each weekday. There was a column by Marcus du Sautoy each Wednesday, for example. The back pages were devoted to puzzles and contain sudoku, "Killer Sudoku", "KenKen", word polygon puzzles, and a crossword simpler and more concise than the main "Times Crossword". The penultimate page was "Young Times", with puzzles and news for children. All these features are now found in Mind Games.
The supplement also contained arts and lifestyle features, TV and radio listings and reviews which have now become their own weekly supplements.

The Game

The Game is included in the newspaper on a Monday, and details all the weekend's Football activity (Premier League and Football League Championship, League One and League Two.) The Scottish edition of The Game also includes results and analysis from Scottish Premier League games.

Saturday supplements

The Saturday edition of The Times contains a variety of supplements. These supplements were relaunched in January 2009 as: Sport, Weekend (including travel and lifestyle features), Saturday Review (arts, books, and ideas), The Times Magazine (columns on various topics), and Playlist (an entertainment listings guide).
Saturday Review is the first regular supplement published in broadsheet format again since the paper switched to a compact size in 2004.
The Times Magazine features columns touching on various subjects such as celebrities, fashion and beauty, food and drink, homes and gardens or simply writers' anecdotes. Notable contributors include Giles Coren, Food And Drink Writer of the Year in 2005.

Online presence

The Times and Sunday Times have had an online presence since March 1999, originally at the-times.co.uk and sunday-times.co.uk, and later at timesonline.co.uk.^[19] In April 2009, the timesonline site had a readership of 750,000 readers per day.^[20] As of September 2008, The Times Online travel section has been partnered with VacationRentalPeople, who provide all of The Times Online's rental property listings.

Paywall

Rupert Murdoch argued that readers should pay for online content, and since July 2010, News International requires readers that do not already subscribe to the print edition to pay £1 per day or £2 per week to access Times and Sunday Times content.^[21]
There are now two websites, instead of one: thetimes.co.uk is aimed at daily readers, and the thesundaytimes.co.uk site at providing weekly magazine-like content. Free access is now restricted to public libraries subscribing to these titles and those with access to an online university library portal with free access.
The paywall has caused a dramatic decline in webpage views, with reach declining 48% in the first month alone and the Alexa ranking for the site falling 609 places^[22] Such a decline may also be seen via Google Trends. In the same period, the reach of the rival Telegraph website increased 11.2% with the Guardian seeing a 5% increase. This trend can also be seen in tabloid newspapers not in direct competition with the Times such as the Daily Mail.^[23]
Unofficial reports have stated that the new website may have, as of July 2010, only 15,000 direct paying subscribers, with another 12,500 paying for access via an iPad app.^[24]

Political allegiance

The Times was a traditional Conservative Party supporter, even after its 18-year rule in government was ended by the Labour landslide of 1997, but for the 2001 general election the party declared its support for Tony Blair's Labour government, who were re-elected by a landslide. It supported Labour again in 2005, when it achieved a third successive election win, though with a vastly reduced majority.^[25] For the 2010 general election, however, the newspaper declared its support for the Tories once again; the election ended in the Tories taking the most votes and seats but having to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to form a government as they had failed to gain an overall majority in the election.^[26]

Ownership

John Walter (1785–1803)
John Walter, 2nd (1803–1847)
John Walter, 3rd (1847–1894)
Arthur Fraser Walter (1894–1908)
Lord Northcliffe (1908–1922)
Astor family (1922–1966)
Roy Thomson (1966–1981)
News International (subsidiary of News Corporation), run by Rupert Murdoch (1981— )

Editorship

Editor's name^[27]	Years
John Walter	1785–1803
John Walter, 2nd	1803–1812
John Stoddart	1812–1816
Thomas Barnes	1817–1841
John Delane	1841–1877
Thomas Chenery	1877–1884
George Earle Buckle	1884–1912
George Geoffrey Dawson	1912–1919
Henry Wickham Steed	1919–1922
George Geoffrey Dawson	1923–1941
Robert McGowan Barrington-Ward	1941–1948
William Francis Casey	1948–1952
William Haley	1952–1966
Lord Rees-Mogg	1967–1981
Harold Evans	1981–1982
Charles Douglas-Home	1982–1985
Charles Wilson	1985–1990
Simon Jenkins	1990–1992
Peter Stothard	1992–2002
Robert Thomson	2002–2007
James Harding	2007–

Columnists and journalists

Murad Ahmed
Michael Atherton
Guillem Balague
Simon Barnes
Alice Bowe
Peter Brookes, leader-page cartoonist
David Brown
Kaya Burgess
Rachel Campbell-Johnston
Sam Coates
Giles Coren
Robert Crampton
Ginny Dougary
Stephen Farrell
Daniel Finkelstein
Richard Ford
Adam Fresco
Joanna Geary
Frances Gibb
Brian Glanville
Ruth Gledhill
Michael Gove

Nico Hines
Anthony Howard
Philip Howard
Ben Hoyle
Mick Hume
Anatole Kaletsky
Patrick Kidd
Magnus Linklater
Richard Lloyd Parry
Anthony Loyd, war correspondent on retainer
Ben Macintyre
Sam Marlowe, theatre reviewer
Stefanie Marsh
Hugh McIlvanney
Alice Miles
Caitlin Moran
Michael Moran
Morten Morland, political cartoonist
Richard Morrison
Kate Muir
Matthew Parris
Grayson Perry

Catherine Philp
Libby Purves
Lord Rees-Mogg
Peter Riddell
Hugo Rifkind
Aki Riihilahti
Nick Robinson
Alyson Rudd
Dan Sabbagh
Sathnam Sanghera
Marcus du Sautoy
David Sinclair
Graham Stewart
Andrew Sullivan
Ann Treneman
Janice Turner
Philip Webster
Tom Whipple
Tom Whitwell
Tony Halpin
Alexander Williams, cartoonist
Jeremy Clarkson

Other publications

(Times Books Group Ltd)

The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, 2007 ISBN 978-0-00-780150-3

Biography

Harold Evans, Good Times, Bad Times. Includes sections of black and white photographic plates, plus a few charts and diagrams in text pages.^[28]

In fiction

In the dystopian future world of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Times had been transformed into the organ of the totalitarian ruling party, its editorials—of which several are quoted in the book—reflecting Big Brother's pronouncements.
Rex Stout's fictional detective Nero Wolfe is described as fond of solving the London Times' crossword puzzle at his New York home, in preference to those of American papers.
In the James Bond series, written by Ian Fleming, the title character, James Bond, reads The Times. As described by Fleming in From Russia, with Love: "The Times was the only paper that Bond ever read."

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