In 1919, it made its first trans- Atlantic delivery to London. In 1904, the Times received the first on-the-spot wireless transmission from a naval battle, a report of the destruction of the Russian fleet at the Battle of Port Arthur in the Yellow Sea during the Russo-Japanese War. The original Times Square building, now known as One Times Square, was sold in 1961. The new headquarters for the newspaper, the New York Times Tower, a skyscraper designed by Renzo Piano at 620 8th Avenue in Manhattan, opened in June 2007. After only nine years at Times Square, the paper relocated in 1913 to 229 West 43rd Street. It was here that the New Year's Eve tradition of lowering a lighted ball from the Times building was started by the paper in 1907. The newspaper gave its name to Times Square, in 1904, after it moved to new headquarters on 42nd Street in an area formerly known as Longacre Square. In the beginning, it took a toll on the income of the Times but within a few years, the paper regained most of its lost ground and readership. In 1884, the Times faced a period of transition from strictly supporting Republican candidates to becoming a politically independent paper, supporting Grover Cleveland in his first presidential election in 1884. After months, an electoral commission and Congress finally decided the election in Hayes' favor. Hayes, the Times, under the headline "A Doubtful Election," asserted the outcome remained uncertain. In the 1876 presidential election, while other newspapers declared Samuel Tilden the victor over Rutherford B.
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Under his guidance, The New York Times achieved an international scope, circulation, and reputation.īetween 18, a series of Times exposes brought down Boss Tweed and ended the Tweed Ring's domination of New York's city hall. In 1896, Adolph Ochs, publisher of The Chattanooga Times, acquired The New York Times and in 1897, coined the paper's celebrated slogan, "All the news that's fit to print," widely interpreted as a jab at competing papers in New York City (the New York World and the New York Journal American) that were known for lurid yellow journalism. However, during the Civil War the Times (along with other major dailies) started publishing Sunday issues.
The original intent was to publish the paper every morning except on Sundays. On September 14, 1857, the New-York Daily Times lost its hyphen and the word Daily and became The New York Times. The New York Times was founded on September 18, 1851, by journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond and former banker George Jones as the New-York Daily Times. Its world-famous motto, always printed in the upper left-hand corner of the front page, is: "All the news that's fit to print." In the last decade or so, its web site has also become one of the top-ranking Internet news destinations for readers around the world. Never the largest newspaper in terms of circulation, The New York Times is nonetheless highly influential both in the United States and worldwide, the winner of close to 100 Pulitzer Prizes, with consistently high standard and incisive editorials as well as detailed and broad coverage of international as well as American news.
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