208-905: Richard Alva Cavett ( / ˈ k æ v ɪ t / ; born November 19, 1936) is an American television personality and former talk show host. He appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States from the 1960s through the 2000s. In later years, Cavett has written an online column for The New York Times , promoted DVDs of his former shows as well as a book of his Times columns, and hosted replays of his TV interviews with Bette Davis , Lucille Ball , Salvador Dalí , Lee Marvin , Groucho Marx , Katharine Hepburn , Judy Garland , Marlon Brando , Orson Welles , Woody Allen , Ingmar Bergman , Jean-Luc Godard , Robert Mitchum , John Lennon , George Harrison , Jimi Hendrix , Richard Burton , Sophia Loren , Marcello Mastroianni , Kirk Douglas and others on Turner Classic Movies . Cavett
416-533: A New York University professor to determine that dropping the period saved the paper US$ 41.28 (equivalent to $ 377.21 in 2023). As of December 2023, The New York Times has printed sixty thousand issues, a statistic represented in the paper's masthead to the right of the volume number, the Times ' s years in publication written in Roman numerals . The volume and issues are separated by four dots representing
624-526: A Windows 8 application in October 2012. Johnny Carson John William Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host, comedian, and writer best known as the host of NBC 's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992). Carson received six Primetime Emmy Awards , the Television Academy 's 1980 Governor's Award and a 1985 Peabody Award . He
832-611: A midshipman , a story often regarded as apocryphal . Carson joined the United States Navy on June 8, 1943, and received V-12 Navy College Training Program officer training at Columbia University and Millsaps College . Commissioned an ensign late in the war, Carson was assigned to the USS ; Pennsylvania in the Pacific , serving as a communications officer in charge of decoding encrypted messages. While in
1040-409: A "hammer headline" reading, "Biden Beats Trump", in all caps and bolded. A dozen journalists discussed several potential headlines, such as "It's Biden" or "Biden's Moment", and prepared for a Donald Trump victory, in which they would use "Trump Prevails". During Trump's first impeachment , the Times drafted the hammer headline, "Trump Impeached". The New York Times altered the ligatures between
1248-519: A "sign of civility". The Times ' s use of courtesy titles led to an apocryphal rumor that the paper had referred to singer Meat Loaf as "Mr. Loaf". Several exceptions have been made; the former sports section and The New York Times Book Review do not use honorifics. A leaked memo following the killing of Osama bin Laden in May 2011 revealed that editors were given a last-minute instruction to omit
1456-640: A Christmas tree with honors, medals, and ribbons—without thinking of the great Mort Sahl at the peak of his brilliance." Cavett went on to recall Sahl's expressed contempt for General William Westmoreland 's display of medals, and criticized Petraeus for not speaking in plain language. In 2011, Cavett appeared as a talking head in the Robert Weide two-part documentary series Woody Allen: A Documentary for American Masters which aired on PBS . In December 2012, for their annual birthday celebration to "The Master", The Noël Coward Society invited Cavett as
1664-475: A blog, published by The New York Times , entitled "Talk Show: Dick Cavett Speaks Again". The New York Times The New York Times ( NYT ) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City . The New York Times covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States,
1872-712: A brief stint as the Narrator in Stephen Sondheim 's Into the Woods . In 1995, Cavett lent his voice for The Simpsons episode " Homie the Clown ". He also appeared in footage from The Dick Cavett Show in Robert Zemeckis ' Forrest Gump (1994), and Ron Howard 's Apollo 13 (1995). From November 2000 to January 2002, he played the narrator in a Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show . Cavett
2080-411: A card, any card." Carson's mother sewed him a cape, and his first performance was staged in front of the local Kiwanis Club . He debuted as "The Great Carsoni" at age 14 and was paid $ 3 a show. Soon, many other performances at local picnics and county fairs followed. After graduating from high school, Carson hitchhiked to Hollywood , California . There he was arrested and fined $ 50 for impersonating
2288-402: A casual, conversational approach with extensive interaction with guests, an approach pioneered by Arthur Godfrey and previous Tonight Show hosts Paar and Steve Allen but enhanced by Carson's lightning-quick wit. Former late-night host and friend David Letterman , as well as many others, has cited Carson's influence. Carson is a cultural phenomenon in the United States and widely regarded as
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#17327827625712496-421: A column, often six words. Additionally, headlines must "break" properly, containing a complete thought on each line without splitting up prepositions and adverbs. Writers may edit a headline to fit an article more aptly if further developments occur. The Times uses A/B testing for articles on the front page, placing two headlines against each other. At the end of the test, the headlines that receives more traffic
2704-626: A compendium of recipes from The New York Times . The Innovation Report in 2014 revealed that the Times had attempted to establish a cooking website since 1998, but faced difficulties with the absence of a defined data structure. In September 2014, The New York Times introduced NYT Cooking, an application and website. Edited by food editor Sam Sifton , the Times ' s cooking website features 21,000 recipes as of 2022. NYT Cooking features videos as part of an effort by Sifton to hire two former Tasty employees from BuzzFeed . In August 2023, NYT Cooking added personalized recommendations through
2912-421: A controlling interest in the company. In 1935, Ochs was succeeded by his son-in-law, Arthur Hays Sulzberger , who began a push into European news. Sulzberger's son-in-law Arthur Ochs became publisher in 1963, adapting to a changing newspaper industry and introducing radical changes. The New York Times was involved in the landmark 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case New York Times Co. v. Sullivan , which restricted
3120-551: A copy of Variety or an appropriate piece of company stationery in order to look inconspicuous while sneaking backstage or into a TV studio. Cavett took many odd jobs ranging from store detective to label typist for a Wall Street firm, and as a copyboy at Time magazine. in 1956, Cavett joined the Oregon Shakespeare Festival , which is based in Ashland, Oregon , for its 16th season. Cavett appeared as
3328-626: A copyreader who had pleaded the Fifth Amendment drew ire from within the Times and from external organizations. In April 1961, Sulzberger resigned, appointing his son-in-law, The New York Times Company president Orvil Dryfoos . Under Dryfoos, The New York Times established a newspaper based in Los Angeles . In 1962, the implementation of automated printing presses in response to increasing costs mounted fears over technological unemployment . The New York Typographical Union staged
3536-602: A cover for its criticism and New York wrote that the Times was engaging in "middle-class self-absorption". The New York Times , the Daily News , and the New York Post were the subject of a strike in 1978, allowing emerging newspapers to leverage halted coverage. The Times deliberately avoided coverage of the AIDS epidemic , running its first front-page article in May 1983. Max Frankel 's editorial coverage of
3744-472: A daunting intellectual range" and "the most distinguished talk-show host in America." He is also known for his ability to remain calm and mediate between contentious guests as well as his resonant voice. His show often focused on controversial people or subjects, often pairing guests with opposing views on social or political issues, such as Jim Brown and Lester Maddox . On February 11, 1970, Cavett hosted
3952-539: A documentary series for HBO in the early 1980s titled Remember When . . . that examined changes in American culture over time and he hosted HBO's monthly review series HBO Magazine . In April 1981, Cavett traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, to interview pop group ABBA on the occasion of their tenth anniversary as a group. The special, titled Dick Cavett Meets ABBA , was taped by the Swedish TV network SVT and
4160-662: A financial newsletter edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin . The Times had intended to publish the newsletter in September, but delayed its debut following the September 11 attacks . A website for DealBook was established in March 2006. The New York Times began shifting towards DealBook as part of the newspaper's financial coverage in November 2010 with a renewed website and a presence in the Times ' s print edition. In 2011,
4368-498: A great deal of effort building a masculine image. This created something of a high-profile feud between Carson and Newton. Years later, Newton appeared on Larry King Live , declaring that "Johnny Carson is a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it." Newton has often told of personally confronting Carson; after
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#17327827625714576-412: A guest, and declared every word playwright Lillian Hellman wrote was "a lie, including 'and' and 'the'." Hellman later sued McCarthy for libel. The suit spanned more than four years. Cavett's off-Broadway play opened March 14, 2014, and closed April 13, 2014, in its limited run. He subsequently came to Los Angeles to appear in a production at Theatre 40 , and delighted audiences by remaining onstage after
4784-403: A half hours in 1981 and in 2017, when copy editors and reporters walked out at lunchtime in response to the elimination of the copy desk. On December 7, 2022, the union held a one-day strike, the first interruption to The New York Times since 1978. The New York Times Guild reached an agreement in May 2023 to increase minimum salaries for employees and a retroactive bonus. The Times Tech Guild
4992-510: A letter to film comedian Arthur Jefferson, better known as Stan Laurel of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy . The two soon met at Laurel's Hollywood apartment. On the evening of that first visit, Cavett wrote a tribute to him that Paar read on his show. Laurel saw the broadcast which he deeply appreciated. Cavett visited the legendary comedian several times. Their final time together came three weeks prior to Laurel's death in 1965. In his capacity as talent coordinator for The Tonight Show , Cavett
5200-502: A line on a preposition, article, or adjective, and chiefly, not to pun. The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage states that wordplay, such as "Rubber Industry Bounces Back", is to be tested on a colleague as a canary is to be tested in a coal mine ; "when no song bursts forth, start rewriting". The New York Times has amended headlines due to controversy. In 2019, following two back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton ,
5408-465: A line. The term dates back to August 8, 1959, when it was revealed that the United States was monitoring Soviet missile firings and when Explorer 6 — shaped like a paddle wheel — launched. Since then, the paddle wheel has been used several times, including on January 21, 1981, when Ronald Reagan was sworn in minutes before Iran released fifty-two American hostages, ending the Iran hostage crisis . At
5616-599: A live election system using the Associated Press 's File Transfer Protocol (FTP) service and a Ruby on Rails application; nytimes.com experienced its largest traffic on Super Tuesday and the day after. The NYTimes application debuted with the introduction of the App Store on July 10, 2008. Engadget ' s Scott McNulty wrote critically of the app, negatively comparing it to The New York Times ' s mobile website. An iPad version with select articles
5824-565: A management imbroglio in which his children had insufficient business acumen to inherit the company and his will prevented an acquisition of the Times . Editor-in-chief Charles Ransom Miller , editorial editor Edward Cary, and correspondent George F. Spinney established a company to manage The New-York Times , but faced financial difficulties during the Panic of 1893 . In August 1896, Chattanooga Times publisher Adolph Ochs acquired The New-York Times , implementing significant alterations to
6032-691: A month, equal to $ 525 today. Cavett was cast in a film by the Signal Corps , but further jobs were not forthcoming. He was an extra on The Phil Silvers Show in 1959, a TV remake of the film Body and Soul for the DuPont Show of the Month the same year, and Playhouse 90 ("The Hiding Place") in 1960. He briefly revived his magic act while working as a typist and as a mystery shopper in department stores. Meanwhile, his girlfriend and future wife Carrie Nye landed several Broadway roles. Cavett
6240-578: A night and was both uncensored and commercial-free. During the slots for commercial breaks, the audio and picture feed would continue, capturing at times risqué language and other events that would be edited out before transmission. At the same time, satellite ground stations owned by individuals began appearing, and some found the live feed. Satellite dish owners began to document their sightings in technical journals, giving viewers knowledge of things they were not meant to see. Carson and his production staff grew concerned about this and pressured NBC into ceasing
6448-430: A paywall in March 2011. Abramson succeeded Keller, continuing her characteristic investigations into corporate and government malfeasance into the Times ' s coverage. Following conflicts with newly appointed chief executive Mark Thompson 's ambitions, Abramson was dismissed by Sulzberger Jr., who named Dean Baquet as her replacement. Leading up to the 2016 presidential election , The New York Times elevated
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6656-488: A period. With the change to The New-York Times on September 14, 1857, the nameplate followed. Under George Jones , the terminals of the "N", "r", and "s" were intentionally exaggerated into swashes. The nameplate in the January 15, 1894, issue trimmed the terminals once more, smoothed the edges, and turned the stem supporting the "T" into an ornament. The hyphen was dropped on December 1, 1896, after Adolph Ochs purchased
6864-821: A politically charged response to economic policy", citing its informal and neutral tone. The Upshot developed "the needle" for the 2016 presidential election and 2020 presidential elections , a thermometer dial displaying the probability of a candidate winning. In January 2016, Cox was named editor of The Upshot . Kevin Quealy was named editor in June 2022. According to an internal readership poll conducted by The New York Times in 2019, eighty-four percent of readers identified as liberal. In February 1942, The New York Times crossword debuted in The New York Times Magazine ; according to Richard Shepard,
7072-527: A rare cameo as a character (Delia's agent) other than himself. Cavett often appeared on television quiz and game shows, including What's My Line? , To Tell the Truth , Password , and the $ 25,000 Pyramid . Cavett narrated the HBO documentary series Time Was . Each episode covered a decade, ranging from the 1920s to the 1970s. The show originally aired in November 1979 and ran for six months. Cavett hosted
7280-433: A revision tracking tool for WordPress and TinyMCE . ICE is integrated within the Times ' s workflow by providing a unified text editor for print and online editors, reducing the divide between print and online operations. By 2017, The New York Times began developing a new authoring tool to its content management system known as Oak, in an attempt to further the Times ' s visual efforts in articles and reduce
7488-532: A roll of newsprint and several rollers ensure ink can be printed on paper. The final newspapers are wrapped in plastic and shipped out. As of 2018, the College Point facility accounted for 41 percent of production. Other copies are printed at 26 other publications, such as The Atlanta Journal-Constitution , The Dallas Morning News , The Santa Fe New Mexican , and the Courier Journal . With
7696-438: A second term. Other press stoppages include May 19, 1994, for the death of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis , and July 17, 1996, for Trans World Airlines Flight 800 . The 2000 presidential election necessitated two press stoppages. Al Gore appeared to concede on November 8, forcing then-executive editor Joseph Lelyveld to stop the Times ' s presses to print a new headline, "Bush Appears to Defeat Gore", with
7904-521: A selection of performances and interviews on a three-DVD set, The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons , showcasing interviews of and performances by rock musicians who appeared on the Dick Cavett show from 1969 to 1974. Clips from his TV shows (actual or enacted for the occasion) have been used in films, for example Annie Hall (1977), Forrest Gump (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Frequency (2000) and Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022) Cavett
8112-486: A story that stated George W. Bush was elected president. However, Gore held off his concession speech over doubts over Florida . Lelyveld reran the headline, "Bush and Gore Vie for an Edge". Since 2000, three printing stoppages have been issued for the death of William Rehnquist on September 3, 2005, for the killing of Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011, and for the passage of the Marriage Equality Act in
8320-608: A strike in December, altering the media consumption of New Yorkers. The strike left New York with three remaining newspapers — the Times , the Daily News , and the New York Post — by its conclusion in March 1963. In May, Dryfoos died of a heart ailment. Following weeks of ambiguity, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger became The New York Times ' s publisher. Technological advancements leveraged by newspapers such as
8528-658: A subject has expressed a preference, such as Donald Trump . The New York Times maintains a strict but not absolute obscenity policy, including phrases. In a review of the Canadian hardcore punk band Fucked Up , music critic Kelefa Sanneh wrote that the band's name — entirely rendered in asterisks — would not be printed in the Times "unless an American president, or someone similar, says it by mistake"; The New York Times did not repeat then-vice president Dick Cheney 's use of "fuck" against then-senator Patrick Leahy in 2004 or then-vice president Joe Biden 's remarks that
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8736-517: A television program that combined the engaging qualities of lightly recalled nostalgia, the sophisticated stiletto, and a demonstration of genuine affection that had more substance than adolescent wails on how love will save the world. Sir Noël Coward, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, friends of a lifetime, met on Dick Cavett's show on the American Broadcasting Company network. They exchanged quips, pleasantries and thoughts about
8944-481: A tribute to the life and works of Sir Noël Coward , who had just been knighted in December 1969. Coward appeared as a guest, along with Alfred Lunt , Lynn Fontanne , Tammy Grimes , and Brian Bedford , each of whom were enjoying a successful run on Broadway in the revival of Coward's play, Private Lives . In reviewing the show for The New York Times , television critic Jack Gould said, "The age of youth? Balder dash! The over‐70 set walked off yesterday morning with
9152-469: A venture started by managing editor Carr Van Anda in 1907. The morgue comprises news clippings, a pictures library, and the Times ' s book and periodicals library. As of 2014, it is the largest library of any media company, dating back to 1851. In November 2018, The New York Times partnered with Google to digitize the Archival Library. Additionally, The New York Times has maintained
9360-509: A virtual microfilm reader known as TimesMachine since 2014. The service launched with archives from 1851 to 1980; in 2016, TimesMachine expanded to include archives from 1981 to 2002. The Times built a pipeline to take in TIFF images, article metadata in XML and an INI file of Cartesian geometry describing the boundaries of the page, and convert it into a PNG of image tiles and JSON containing
9568-682: A week was unlikely. Carson reportedly loathed what he perceived as disloyalty, and he was furious when former frequent Tonight Show guest hosts John Davidson and Joan Rivers began hosting their own talk shows. Rivers' show on the Fox Network directly competed with Carson during the 1986–1987 season before being cancelled. On June 24, 2009, following Ed McMahon's death, Rivers lauded McMahon on Larry King Live , but said that after she got her own show, Carson refused to ever speak to her again. In December 1973, Carson joked on Tonight about an alleged shortage of toilet paper . Viewers believed
9776-504: Is A. G. Sulzberger , Sulzberger Jr.'s son. As of 2023, the Times ' s executive editor is Joseph Kahn and the paper's managing editors are Marc Lacey and Carolyn Ryan , having been appointed in June 2022. The New York Times ' s deputy managing editors are Sam Dolnick , Monica Drake , and Steve Duenes , and the paper's assistant managing editors are Matthew Ericson, Jonathan Galinsky, Hannah Poferl, Sam Sifton , Karron Skog, and Michael Slackman . The New York Times
9984-497: Is Meredith Kopit Levien , the company's former chief operating officer who was appointed in September 2020. As of March 2023, The New York Times Company employs 5,800 individuals, including 1,700 journalists according to deputy managing editor Sam Dolnick . Journalists for The New York Times may not run for public office, provide financial support to political candidates or causes, endorse candidates, or demonstrate public support for causes or movements. Journalists are subject to
10192-717: Is "fundamentally useless", comparing him to Billy Beane , who implemented sabermetrics in baseball. According to Sullivan, his work was criticized by several notable political journalists. The New Republic obtained a memo in November 2013 revealing then-Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt 's ambitions to establish a data-driven newsletter with presidential historian Michael Beschloss , graphic designer Amanda Cox , economist Justin Wolfers , and The New Republic journalist Nate Cohn . By March, Leonhardt had amassed fifteen employees from within The New York Times ;
10400-518: Is a waste of good ink, and his most zealous adherents and hardest-core devotees are to be avoided, even if it means working your way around the world in the hold of a goat transport." In 1965, Cavett did some commercial voiceovers, including a series of mock interviews with Mel Brooks for Ballantine beer . In the next couple of years he appeared on game shows, including What's My Line . He wrote for Merv Griffin and appeared on Griffin's talk show several times, and then on The Ed Sullivan Show . In
10608-561: Is also played as he walks on stage during guest appearances on other talk shows. Cavett was present when actor Marlon Brando broke the jaw of paparazzo photographer Ron Galella on June 12, 1973. Galella had followed Cavett and Brando to a restaurant after the taping of The Dick Cavett Show in New York City. In 2008, Cavett entered an Iraq war dispute with a New York Times blog entry criticizing General David Petraeus , stating "I can't look at Petraeus—his uniform ornamented like
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#173278276257110816-455: Is chosen. The alteration of a headline regarding intercepted Russian data used in the Mueller special counsel investigation was noted by Trump in a March 2017 interview with Time , in which he claimed that the headline used the word "wiretapped" in the print version of the paper on January 20, while the digital article on January 19 omitted the word. The headline was intentionally changed in
11024-548: Is featured in the 2003 documentary From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall about the fire that destroyed his home in Montauk, New York and his effort to rebuild it. Cavett's signature tune has long been a trumpet version of the vocalise " Glitter and Be Gay " from Leonard Bernstein 's Candide . The tune was first played at the midpoint of his ABC show, and later became the theme of his PBS show. The tune
11232-526: Is heard being played on sound recordings of Carson's first Tonight Show , and it was used without interruption through to his last broadcast on May 22, 1992. The Tonight Show was originally produced at NBC's headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, with occasional stints in California. The program began videotaping in advance during the Jack Paar days, although during the 1970s NBC fed
11440-766: Is heard discussing the incident on the Watergate tapes , saying, "Well, is there any way we can screw him [Cavett]? That's what I mean. There must be ways." H.R. Haldeman , White House Chief of Staff, answered, "We've been trying to." Cavett's name comes up a total of 26 times on the tapes, as he repeatedly highlighted the wrongdoings of the Nixon administration on his show. Cavett hosted many pop stars, both in interview and performance, such as David Bowie , Sly Stone , Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin . Several of his Emmy Award nominations and one Emmy Award were for Outstanding Musical or Variety Series, and in 2005 Shout Factory released
11648-474: Is like having your clothes criticized by Emmett Kelly ." Cavett appeared on the show once, to do a gymnastics routine on the pommel horse. After departing The Tonight Show , Cavett wrote for Jerry Lewis 's ill-fated talk show, for three times the money. Cavett began a brief career as a stand-up comic in 1964 at The Bitter End in Greenwich Village. His manager was Jack Rollins , who later became
11856-520: Is majority-owned by the Ochs-Sulzberger family through elevated shares in the company's dual-class stock structure held largely in a trust, in effect since the 1950s; as of 2022, the family holds ninety-five percent of The New York Times Company's Class B shares , allowing it to elect seventy percent of the company's board of directors. Class A shareholders have restrictive voting rights. As of 2023, The New York Times Company's chief executive
12064-470: Is owned by The New York Times Company , a publicly traded company. The New York Times Company, in addition to the Times , owns Wirecutter , The Athletic , The New York Times Cooking, and The New York Times Games, and acquired Serial Productions and Audm. The New York Times Company holds undisclosed minority investments in multiple other businesses, and formerly owned The Boston Globe and several radio and television stations. The New York Times Company
12272-544: Is review enough." One show from June 1971 featured a debate between future senator and presidential candidate John Kerry and fellow veteran John O'Neill over the Vietnam War . O'Neill had been approached by the Nixon administration to work through the Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace to counter Kerry's influence on the public. The debate went poorly for the pro-war side, so angering President Nixon that he
12480-443: Is the largest technology union with collective bargaining rights in the United States. The guild held a second strike beginning on November 4, 2024, threatening the Times ' s coverage of the 2024 United States presidential election . As of August 2024, The New York Times has 10.8 million subscribers, with 10.2 million online subscribers and 600,000 print subscribers, the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in
12688-770: Is why he also speaks fluent German. His maternal grandparents were the Rev. R. R. and Etta Mae Richards. The Rev. Mr. Richards was from Carmarthen , Wales , and was a Baptist minister who served parishes across central Nebraska. Cavett himself is a self-described agnostic. Cavett's parents taught in Comstock , Gibbon, and Grand Island, where Cavett started kindergarten at Wasmer Elementary School. Three years later, both of his parents landed teaching positions in Lincoln, Nebraska , where Cavett completed his education at Capitol, Prescott, and Irving schools and Lincoln High School . When Cavett
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#173278276257112896-846: The Detroit Free Press , The Patriot-News , The Arizona Republic , and The Indianapolis Star , The New York Times ran an editorial on its front page on December 5, 2015, following a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California , in which fourteen people were killed. The editorial advocates for the prohibition of "slightly modified combat rifles" used in the San Bernardino shooting and "certain kinds of ammunition". Conservative figures, including Texas senator Ted Cruz , The Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol , Fox & Friends co-anchor Steve Doocy , and then- New Jersey governor Chris Christie criticized
13104-653: The Frankfurter Zeitung . The international edition would develop into a separate newspaper . Journalist William L. Laurence publicized the atomic bomb race between the United States and Germany, resulting in the Federal Bureau of Investigation seizing copies of the Times . The United States government recruited Laurence to document the Manhattan Project in April 1945. Laurence became
13312-660: The Los Angeles Times and improvements in coverage from The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal necessitated adaptations to nascent computing. The New York Times published " Heed Their Rising Voices " in 1960, a full-page advertisement purchased by supporters of Martin Luther King Jr. criticizing law enforcement in Montgomery, Alabama for their response to the civil rights movement . Montgomery Public Safety commissioner L. B. Sullivan sued
13520-628: The NOVA documentary, "James Randi – Secrets of the Psychics," magician and skeptical activist James Randi recalls that Carson "had been a magician himself and was skeptical" of Geller's claimed paranormal powers, and so, prior to the date of taping, Randi was personally asked "to help prevent any trickery." Per Randi's advice, the show prepared their own props without informing Geller, and did not let Geller or his staff "anywhere near them." When Geller joined Carson on stage, he appeared surprised that he
13728-533: The Pentagon Papers , facing opposition from then-president Richard Nixon . The Supreme Court ruled in The New York Times ' s favor in New York Times Co. v. United States (1971), allowing the Times and The Washington Post to publish the papers. The New York Times remained cautious in its initial coverage of the Watergate scandal . As Congress began investigating the scandal,
13936-462: The Associated Press . Through managing editor Carr Van Anda , the Times focused on scientific advancements, reporting on Albert Einstein 's then-unknown theory of general relativity and becoming involved in the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun . In April 1935, Ochs died, leaving his son-in-law Arthur Hays Sulzberger as publisher. The Great Depression forced Sulzberger to reduce The New York Times ' s operations, and developments in
14144-635: The First Amendment guaranteed the right to publish the Pentagon Papers . In the 1980s, the Times began a two-decade progression to digital technology and launched nytimes.com in 1996. In the 21st century, The New York Times has shifted its publication online amid the global decline of newspapers . The Times has expanded to several other publications, including The New York Times Magazine , The New York Times International Edition , and The New York Times Book Review . In addition,
14352-473: The Great Recession , The New York Times suffered significant fiscal difficulties as a consequence of the subprime mortgage crisis and a decline in classified advertising . Exacerbated by Rupert Murdoch 's revitalization of The Wall Street Journal through his acquisition of Dow Jones & Company , The New York Times Company began enacting measures to reduce the newsroom budget. The company
14560-580: The Hillary Clinton email controversy and the Uranium One controversy ; national security correspondent Michael S. Schmidt initially wrote an article in March 2015 stating that Hillary Clinton had used a private email server as secretary of state. Donald Trump 's upset victory contributed to an increase in subscriptions to the Times . The New York Times experienced unprecedented indignation from Trump, who referred to publications such as
14768-517: The Meredith Corporation and KNAT being sold to Trinity Broadcasting Network . Carson's other business ventures included the successful Johnny Carson Apparel, Inc. —his turtlenecks became a fashion trend—and a failed restaurant franchise. Carson retired from show business on May 22, 1992, at age 66, when he stepped down as host of The Tonight Show . His farewell was a major media event, often emotional for Carson, his colleagues, and
14976-626: The Microsoft Word -based content management system CCI for its print content. Scoop was developed in 2008 to serve as a secondary content management system for editors working in CCI to publish their content on the Times ' s website; as part of The New York Times ' s online endeavors, editors now write their content in Scoop and send their work to CCI for print publication. Since its introduction, Scoop has superseded several processes within
15184-637: The NBC Studios in Burbank, California, because of the studio's proximity to celebrities. From 1980, Carson stopped hosting five shows per week. Instead, Mondays featured a guest host, leaving Carson to host the other four weeknights. Shows were videotaped in Burbank at 5:30 pm, fed from there to the Central and Eastern Time Zone stations via cross-country television line at 8:30 pm Pacific time (11:30 pm Eastern time ]), and later sent from Burbank to
15392-546: The New York State Assembly and subsequent signage by then-governor Andrew Cuomo on June 24, 2011. The New York Times website is hosted at nytimes.com. It has undergone several major redesigns and infrastructure developments since its debut. In April 2006, The New York Times redesigned its website with an emphasis on multimedia. In preparation for Super Tuesday in February 2008, the Times developed
15600-857: The New York Times Guild . The Times Guild, along with the Times Tech Guild, are represented by the NewsGuild-CWA . In 1940, Arthur Hays Sulzberger was called upon by the National Labor Relations Board amid accusations that he had discouraged Guild membership in the Times . Over the next few years, the Guild would ratify several contracts, expanding to editorial and news staff in 1942 and maintenance workers in 1943. The New York Times Guild has walked out several times in its history, including for six and
15808-556: The Obama administration over its portrayal of terrorism. In presidential elections, The New York Times has endorsed a total of twelve Republican candidates and thirty-two Democratic candidates, and has endorsed the Democrat in every election since 1960. With the exception of Wendell Willkie , Republicans endorsed by the Times have won the presidency. In 2016, the editorial board issued an anti-endorsement against Donald Trump for
16016-512: The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and continued performing magic (then paid $ 25 per appearance). Carson majored in journalism with the intention of becoming a comedy writer, but instead switched his major to speech and drama a few months later because he wanted to become a radio performer. His college thesis, titled "How to Write Comedy for Radio", was a compilation of taped skits and jokes from popular radio shows with Carson explaining
16224-472: The Plaza Hotel , where Marx invited him to lunch. Years later, Cavett gave the introduction to Marx's one-man show An Evening with Groucho Marx at Carnegie Hall and began by saying, "I can't believe that I know Groucho Marx." Cavett continued with The Tonight Show as a writer after Johnny Carson assumed hosting duties. For Carson he wrote the quip "Having your taste criticized by Dorothy Kilgallen
16432-523: The Supreme Court deadlocked in United States v. Texas . The New York Times has run editorials from its editorial board on the front page twice. On June 13, 1920, the Times ran an editorial opposing Warren G. Harding , who was nominated during that year's Republican Party presidential primaries . Amid growing acceptance to run editorials on the front pages from publications such as
16640-821: The Times ' s operations further, acquiring WQXR-FM in 1944 — the first non- Times investment since the Jones era — and established a fashion show in Times Hall. Despite reductions as a result of conscription, The New York Times retained the largest journalism staff of any newspaper. The Times ' s print edition became available internationally during the war through the Army & Air Force Exchange Service ; The New York Times Overseas Weekly later became available in Japan through The Asahi Shimbun and in Germany through
16848-684: The Times as " enemies of the people " at the Conservative Political Action Conference and tweeting his disdain for the newspaper and CNN . In October 2017, The New York Times published an article by journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey alleging that dozens of women had accused film producer and The Weinstein Company co-chairman Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct. The investigation resulted in Weinstein's resignation and conviction, precipitated
17056-912: The Times began hosting the DealBook Summit, an annual conference hosted by Sorkin. During the COVID-19 pandemic , The New York Times hosted the DealBook Online Summit in 2020 and 2021. The 2022 DealBook Summit featured — among other speakers — former vice president Mike Pence and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu , culminating in an interview with former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried ; FTX had filed for bankruptcy several weeks prior. The 2023 DealBook Summit's speakers included vice president Kamala Harris , Israeli president Isaac Herzog , and businessman Elon Musk . In June 2010, The New York Times licensed
17264-675: The Times for defamation. In New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the verdict in Alabama county court and the Supreme Court of Alabama violated the First Amendment . The decision is considered to be landmark . After financial losses, The New York Times ended its international edition , acquiring a stake in the Paris Herald Tribune , forming the International Herald Tribune . The Times initially published
17472-716: The Times furthered its coverage, publishing details on the Huston Plan , alleged wiretapping of reporters and officials, and testimony from James W. McCord Jr. that the Committee for the Re-Election of the President paid the conspirators off. The exodus of readers to suburban New York newspapers, such as Newsday and Gannett papers, adversely affected The New York Times ' s circulation. Contemporary newspapers balked at additional sections; Time devoted
17680-966: The Times over its coverage of missing explosives from the Al Qa'qaa weapons facility. An article in December 2005 disclosing warrantless surveillance by the National Security Agency contributed to further criticism from the George W. Bush administration and the Senate 's refusal to renew the Patriot Act . In the Plame affair , a Central Intelligence Agency inquiry found that Miller had become aware of Valerie Plame 's identity through then-vice president Dick Cheney 's chief of staff Scooter Libby , resulting in Miller's resignation. During
17888-417: The Times serves as one of the country's newspapers of record . As of 2023 , The New York Times is the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States , with 296,330 print subscribers. The Times has 8.83 million online subscribers, the most of any newspaper in the United States. The New York Times is published by The New York Times Company ; since 1896, the company has been chaired by
18096-415: The Times used the headline, "Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism", to describe then-president Donald Trump 's words after the shootings. After criticism from FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver , the headline was changed to, "Assailing Hate But Not Guns". Online, The New York Times ' s headlines do not face the same length restrictions as headlines that appear in print; print headlines must fit within
18304-459: The Times would expand its delivery options to US$ 95 cooking kits curated by chefs such as Nina Compton , Chintan Pandya, and Naoko Takei Moore. That month, the staff of NYT Cooking went on tour with Compton, Pandya, and Moore in Los Angeles, New Orleans , and New York City, culminating in a food festival. In addition, The New York Times offered its own wine club originally operated by
18512-432: The Times , including print edition planning and collaboration, and features tools such as multimedia integration, notifications, content tagging, and drafts. The New York Times uses private articles for high-profile opinion pieces, such as those written by Russian president Vladimir Putin and actress Angelina Jolie , and for high-level investigations. In January 2012, the Times released Integrated Content Editor (ICE),
18720-595: The Times . Talk radio host Erick Erickson acquired an issue of The New York Times to fire several rounds into the paper, posting a picture online. Since 1997, The New York Times ' s primary distribution center is located in College Point, Queens . The facility is 300,000 sq ft (28,000 m ) and employs 170 people as of 2017. The College Point distribution center prints 300,000 to 800,000 newspapers daily. On most occasions, presses start before 11 p.m. and finish before 3 a.m. A robotic crane grabs
18928-483: The Times ; Sulzberger, who negotiated The New York Times Company's acquisition of The Boston Globe in 1993, derided the Internet, while his son expressed antithetical views. @times appeared on America Online 's website in May 1994 as an extension of The New York Times , featuring news articles, film reviews, sports news, and business articles. Despite opposition, several employees of the Times had begun to access
19136-506: The Weinstein effect , and served as a catalyst for the #MeToo movement . The New York Times Company vacated the public editor position and eliminated the copy desk in November. Sulzberger Jr. announced his resignation in December 2017, appointing his son, A. G. Sulzberger , as publisher. Trump's relationship — equally diplomatic and negative — marked Sulzberger's tenure. In September 2018, The New York Times published " I Am Part of
19344-505: The attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 convinced then-publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the necessity of a crossword. The New York Times has published recipes since the 1850s and has had a separate food section since the 1940s. In 1961, restaurant critic Craig Claiborne published The New York Times Cookbook , an unauthorized cookbook that drew from the Times ' s recipes. Since 2010, former food editor Amanda Hesser has published The Essential New York Times Cookbook ,
19552-538: The cosine similarity of text embeddings of recipe titles. The website also features no-recipe recipes, a concept proposed by Sifton. In May 2016, The New York Times Company announced a partnership with startup Chef'd to form a meal delivery service that would deliver ingredients from The New York Times Cooking recipes to subscribers; Chef'd shut down in July 2018 after failing to accrue capital and secure financing. The Hollywood Reporter reported in September 2022 that
19760-737: The decline of newspapers , particularly regional publications, the Times must travel further; for example, newspapers for Hawaii are flown from San Francisco on United Airlines , and Sunday papers are flown from Los Angeles on Hawaiian Airlines . Computer glitches, mechanical issues, and weather phenomena affect circulation but do not stop the paper from reaching customers. The College Point facility prints over two dozen other papers, including The Wall Street Journal and USA Today . The New York Times has halted its printing process several times to account for major developments. The first printing stoppage occurred on March 31, 1968, when then-president Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he would not seek
19968-578: The 1983 film The King of Comedy , with the role of a TV talk-show host then going to Jerry Lewis . In recognition of his 25th anniversary on The Tonight Show , Carson received a personal Peabody Award , the board saying he had "become an American institution, a household word, [and] the most widely quoted American." They also said they "felt the time had come to recognize the contributions that Johnny has made to television, to humor, and to America." In 1973, television personality and self-proclaimed psychic Uri Geller appeared on The Tonight Show . In
20176-803: The Best New Performer trophy. Around the same time, he met fellow magician Johnny Carson , 11 years his senior, who was doing a magic act at a church in Lincoln. While attending Yale University , Cavett played in and directed dramas on the campus radio station, WYBC , and appeared in Yale drama productions. In his senior year, he changed his major from English to drama, graduating in 1958. He also took advantage of any opportunity to meet stars, routinely going to shows in New York to hang around stage doors or venture backstage. He would go so far as to carry
20384-795: The Bishop of Ely and the second murderer in Tragedy of Richard the Third ; a page to the king in Love's Labour's Lost ; servant Gregory in The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet ; a lord in The Tragedy of Cymbeline ; and Quintus, son of Titus, in The Lamentable Tragedy . In 1960, aged 23, Cavett was living in a three-room, fifth-floor apartment on West 89th Street in Manhattan for $ 51
20592-684: The Carson group in 1979. Shortly after buying the station, KVVU was rumored to be acquiring an NBC affiliation because long-time affiliate KORK-TV was in the process of being replaced by KVBC (and KSNV), but it never happened. Carson's second station, independent KNAT-TV in Albuquerque, New Mexico , was purchased in 1982. Unlike the Las Vegas operation, KNAT faced stiffer competition for top-quality, syndicated programming. Carson sold both of his stations in 1985 and 1986, with KVVU-TV (FOX 5) going to
20800-430: The E and the A, as not doing so would leave a noticeable gap due to the stem of the A sloping away from the E. The Times reused the tight kerning for "Biden Beats Trump" and Trump's second impeachment , which simply read, "Impeached". In cases where two major events occur on the same day or immediately after each other, The New York Times has used a "paddle wheel" headline, where both headlines are used but split by
21008-641: The Emmy Awards Show (from Carnegie Hall in New York) with Bill Cosby (from Century Plaza in Los Angeles). His most popular talk show was his ABC program, which ran from 1969 to 1974. From 1962 to 1992, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was arguably the most popular late-night variety and talk show. Unlike many contemporary shows that attempted to compete with Carson in the same timeslot but were quickly cancelled, Cavett managed to remain on
21216-627: The Global Wine Company. The New York Times Wine Club was established in August 2009, during a dramatic decrease in advertising revenue. By 2021, the wine club was managed by Lot18 , a company that provides proprietary labels. Lot18 managed the Williams Sonoma Wine Club and its own wine club Tasting Room. The New York Times archives its articles in a basement annex beneath its building known as "the morgue",
21424-589: The Internet. The online success of publications that traditionally co-existed with the Times — such as America Online, Yahoo , and CNN — and the expansion of websites such as Monster.com and Craigslist that threatened The New York Times ' s classified advertisement model increased efforts to develop a website. nytimes.com debuted on January 19 and was formally announced three days later. The Times published domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski 's essay Industrial Society and Its Future in 1995, contributing to his arrest after his brother David recognized
21632-508: The May 13, 1993, episode of The Simpsons (" Krusty Gets Kancelled "), telephoning David Letterman on a November 1993 episode of Late Show with David Letterman , and appearing in the 1993 NBC special Bob Hope : The First 90 Years . On May 13, 1994, Carson appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman . During a week of shows from Los Angeles, Letterman was having Larry "Bud" Melman ( Calvert DeForest ) deliver his "Top Ten Lists" under
21840-601: The Museum at The Times. From February 7, 1898, to December 31, 1999, the Times ' s issue number was incorrect by five hundred issues, an error suspected by The Atlantic to be the result of a careless front page type editor. The misreporting was noticed by news editor Aaron Donovan, who was calculating the number of issues in a spreadsheet and noticed the discrepancy. The New York Times celebrated fifty thousand issues on March 14, 1995, an observance that should have occurred on July 26, 1996. The New York Times has reduced
22048-519: The Navy after the war. In response, Carson said no and told him he wanted to be a magician. Forrestal asked him to perform, and Carson responded with a card trick. Carson made the discovery that he could entertain and amuse someone as cranky and sophisticated as Forrestal. Taking advantage of educational opportunities from the Navy, Carson attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln , where he joined
22256-540: The Navy, Carson posted a 15–0-1 amateur boxing record, with most of his bouts fought on board Pennsylvania . He was en route to the combat zone aboard a troop ship when the war ended. Carson later said that the high point of his military career was performing a magic trick for U.S. Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal . In a conversation with Forrestal, the Secretary asked Carson if he planned to stay in
22464-617: The New York newspaper landscape resulted in the formation of larger newspapers, such as the New York Herald Tribune and the New York World-Telegram . In contrast to Ochs, Sulzberger encouraged wirephotography . The New York Times extensively covered World War II through large headlines, reporting on exclusive stories such as the Yugoslav coup d'état . Amid the war, Sulzberger began expanding
22672-599: The Ochs-Sulzberger family, having previously been published by Henry Jarvis Raymond until 1869 and by George Jones until 1896. Adolph Ochs published the Times until his death in 1935, when he was succeeded by his son-in-law, Arthur Hays Sulzberger . Sulzberger was publisher until 1961 and was succeeded by Orvil Dryfoos , his son-in-law, who served in the position until his death in 1963. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger succeeded Dryfoos until his resignation in 1992. His son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. , served as publisher until 2018. The New York Times ' s current publisher
22880-433: The Ochs-Sulzberger family, of which Oakes was a member as Adolph Ochs 's nephew; in 1976, Oakes publicly disagreed with Sulzberger's endorsement of Daniel Patrick Moynihan over Bella Abzug in the 1976 Senate Democratic primaries in a letter sent from Martha's Vineyard . Under Rosenthal, the editorial board took positions supporting assault weapons legislation and the legalization of marijuana , but publicly criticized
23088-531: The Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publisher is A. G. Sulzberger . The Times is headquartered at The New York Times Building in Midtown Manhattan . The Times was founded as the conservative New-York Daily Times in 1851, and came to national recognition in the 1870s with its aggressive coverage of corrupt politician William M. Tweed . Following the Panic of 1893 , Chattanooga Times publisher Adolph Ochs gained
23296-588: The Pacific Time Zone stations at 11:30 pm Pacific time. Since only two feeds originated from Burbank, Central Time Zone stations received the Eastern feed one hour earlier at 10:30 pm local time, and Mountain time stations received the Pacific time zone feed also one hour later, at 12:30 am local time. Carson announced in April 1979 that he was leaving The Tonight Show after seventeen years hosting
23504-690: The Resistance Inside the Trump Administration ", an anonymous essay by a self-described Trump administration official later revealed to be Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor . The animosity — which extended to nearly three hundred instances of Trump disparaging the Times by May 2019 — culminated in Trump ordering federal agencies to cancel their subscriptions to The New York Times and The Washington Post in October 2019. Trump's tax returns have been
23712-521: The United States behind The Wall Street Journal . The New York Times Company intends to have fifteen million subscribers by 2027. The Times ' s shift towards subscription-based revenue with the debut of an online paywall in 2011 contributed to subscription revenue exceeding advertising revenue the following year, furthered by the 2016 presidential election and Donald Trump . In 2022, Vox wrote that The New York Times ' s subscribers skew "older, richer, whiter, and more liberal"; to reflect
23920-536: The ability of public officials to sue the media for defamation . In 1971, The New York Times published the Pentagon Papers , an internal Department of Defense document detailing the United States's historical involvement in the Vietnam War , despite pushback from then-president Richard Nixon . In the landmark decision New York Times Co. v. United States (1971), the Supreme Court ruled that
24128-491: The acquirer, comparing himself to Groucho Marx . According to The New Republic , FiveThirtyEight drew as much as a fifth of the traffic to nytimes.com during the 2012 presidential election . In July 2013, FiveThirtyEight was sold to ESPN . In an article following Silver's exit, public editor Margaret Sullivan wrote that he was disruptive to the Times ' s culture for his perspective on probability-based predictions and scorn for polling — having stated that punditry
24336-404: The air for five years despite ABC being a smaller network with fewer affiliates than NBC at the time. Cavett earned a reputation as "the thinking man's talk show host" and received favorable reviews from critics. As a talk show host, Cavett has been noted for his ability to listen to his guests and engage them in intellectual conversation. Clive James described Cavett "as a true sophisticate with
24544-451: The article to him "very unfair". Carson successfully sued a manufacturer of portable toilets that wanted to call its product "Here's Johnny". Carson performed a parody of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood . Rogers noted, "I've told Johnny that I like humor as much as anybody. But what concerns me is the takeoffs that make me seem so wimpy ! I hope it doesn't communicate that Mr. Rogers is just somebody to be made fun of. Only people who take
24752-408: The audience.) Paul Anka wrote The Tonight Show ' s theme song, (" Johnny's Theme "), a reworking of his "Toot Sweet"; given lyrics, it was renamed "It's Really Love" and recorded by Annette Funicello in 1959. Before taking over The Tonight Show , Carson wrote lyrics for the song, and so claimed fifty percent of the song's performance royalties (though the lyrics were never used). The theme
24960-565: The audiences, and stretched over several nights. In tribute to Carson and his enormous influence, several networks that had late-night variety talk shows "went dark" for the entire hour he did the last show. After 13 tries, The Tonight Show finally won the Emmy for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series later that year, buoyed by the penultimate broadcast, which featured Johnny's final two guests: Robin Williams and Bette Midler . NBC gave
25168-489: The comedic technique in a voice-over. It allowed him to graduate in three years. Carson graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in radio and speech with a minor in physics in 1949. Carson began his broadcasting career in 1950 at WOW-AM (now KXSP ) and WOW-TV (now WOWT-TV ) in Omaha, Nebraska . He soon hosted a morning television program called The Squirrel's Nest . One of his routines involved interviewing pigeons on
25376-555: The cream of middle-class elegance, yet he's not a mannequin. He has captivated the American bourgeoisie without ever offending the highbrows, and he has never said anything that wasn't liberal or progressive. Every night, in front of millions of people, he has to do the salto mortale [circus parlance for an aerial somersault performed on the tightrope]. What's more, he does it without a net. No rewrites. No retakes. The jokes must work tonight. McMahon followed Carson from Who Do You Trust? as his announcer and sidekick, and Skitch Henderson
25584-459: The discrepancy between the mediums in print and online articles. The system reduces the input of editors and supports additional visual mediums in an editor that resembles the appearance of the article. Oak is based on ProseMirror, a JavaScript rich-text editor toolkit, and retains the revision tracking and commenting functionalities of The New York Times ' s previous systems. Additionally, Oak supports predefined article headers. In 2019, Oak
25792-441: The edition number of that issue; on the day of the 2000 presidential election, the Times was revised four separate times, necessitating the use of an em dash in place of an ellipsis. The em dash issue was printed hundreds times over before being replaced by the one-dot issue. Despite efforts by newsroom employees to recycle copies sent to The New York Times ' s office, several copies were kept, including one put on display at
26000-413: The epidemic, with mentions of anal intercourse , contrasted with then-executive editor A. M. Rosenthal 's puritan approach, intentionally avoiding descriptions of the luridity of gay venues. Following years of waning interest in The New York Times , Sulzberger resigned in January 1992, appointing his son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. , as publisher. The Internet represented a generational shift within
26208-461: The essay's penmanship. Following the establishment of nytimes.com , The New York Times retained its journalistic hesitancy under executive editor Joseph Lelyveld , refusing to publish an article reporting on the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal from Drudge Report . nytimes.com editors conflicted with print editors on several occasions, including wrongfully naming security guard Richard Jewell as
26416-497: The exclusive guest host in fall 1987, later joking that although other guest hosts had upped their fees, he had kept his low, assuring himself more bookings. Eventually, Monday night was reserved for Leno and Tuesday night was reserved for The Best of Carson —rebroadcasts usually dating from a year earlier, but occasionally from the 1970s. Although Carson's work schedule became more abbreviated, The Tonight Show remained so successful that his compensation from NBC continued to rise; by
26624-461: The expense of other celebrities. In 1980, Carson backed out of a deal to acquire the Aladdin Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, and a competing group led by Wayne Newton successfully bought the property. According to lawyer Henry Bushkin, Carson became annoyed that he was often portrayed by the media as having "lost" the deal and reacted by telling jokes on his show about Newton, who had spent
26832-461: The final straw, Newton barged into Carson's office at the NBC studios and threatened to beat him up unless the jokes stopped. On February 27, 1982, Carson was arrested for drunk driving on La Cienega Boulevard , near Beverly Hills ; he was released on his own recognizance . Carson pleaded no contest to the charges, and in October 1982, received a sentence of three years probation, a fine of $ 603 and
27040-401: The first time in its history. In February 2020, the editorial board reduced its presence from several editorials each day to occasional editorials for events deemed particularly significant. Since August 2024, the board no longer endorses candidates in local or congressional races in New York. Since 1940, editorial, media, and technology workers of The New York Times have been represented by
27248-409: The first time on the February 11, 1962, episode of What's My Line? . Due to Carson having six months left on his ABC contract, NBC used multiple guest hosts until he could take over. Guest hosts included Bishop, Marx, Merv Griffin , Art Linkletter , Arlene Francis , Bob Cummings , Jerry Lewis , Donald O'Connor and others. Although he continued to have doubts about his new job, Carson became
27456-464: The general population of the United States, the Times has attempted to alter its audience by acquiring The Athletic , investing in verticals such as The New York Times Games , and beginning a marketing campaign showing diverse subscribers to the Times . The New York Times Company chief executive Meredith Kopit Levien stated that the average age of subscribers has remained constant. In October 2001, The New York Times began publishing DealBook ,
27664-603: The guest celebrity to lay flowers in front of Coward's statue at New York's Gershwin Theatre , commemorating the 113th birthday of Sir Noël. Coward had made an appearance on Cavett's ABC late-night television show in 1970 after being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in December 1969. Cavett starred in Hellman v. McCarthy (Literary Legends Declare War!) in New York City's Abingdon Theatre. Cavett re-enacted his show of January 25, 1980, when literary critic Mary McCarthy appeared as
27872-502: The guidelines established in "Ethical Journalism" and "Guidelines on Integrity". According to the former, Times journalists must abstain from using sources with a personal relationship to them and must not accept reimbursements or inducements from individuals who may be written about in The New York Times , with exceptions for gifts of nominal value. The latter requires attribution and exact quotations, though exceptions are made for linguistic anomalies. Staff writers are expected to ensure
28080-434: The guise that a famous personality would be delivering the list instead. On the last show of the week, Letterman indicated that Carson would be delivering the list. Instead, DeForest delivered the list, insulted the audience (in keeping with the gag), and walked off to polite applause. Letterman then indicated that the card he was given did not have the proper list on it and asked that the "real" list be brought out. On that cue,
28288-409: The honorific from Osama bin Laden 's name, consistent with deceased figures of historic significance, such as Adolf Hitler , Napoleon , and Vladimir Lenin . The New York Times uses academic and military titles for individuals prominently serving in that position. In 1986, the Times began to use Ms , and introduced the gender-neutral title Mx. in 2015. The New York Times uses initials when
28496-410: The host of Tonight (later called The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ) on October 1, 1962. After a difficult first year, he overcame his fears. While Tonight under its previous hosts had been successful, especially under Paar, Carson's version eventually did very well in the ratings. Billy Wilder said of Carson: By the simple law of survival, Carson is the best. He enchants the invalids and
28704-460: The information in the XML and INI files. The image tiles are generated using GDAL and displayed using Leaflet , using data from a content delivery network . The Times ran optical character recognition on the articles using Tesseract and shingled and fuzzy string matched the result. The New York Times uses a proprietary content management system known as Scoop for its online content and
28912-519: The insomniacs as well as the people who have to get up at dawn. He is the Valium and the Nembutal of a nation. No matter what kind of dead-asses are on the show, he has to make them funny and exciting. He has to be their nurse and their surgeon. He has no conceit. He does his work and he comes prepared. If he's talking to an author, he has read the book. Even his rehearsed routines sound improvised. He's
29120-543: The king of late-night television. John William Carson was born on October 23, 1925, in Corning , Iowa , to Ruth Elizabeth Carson ( née Hook; 1901–1985) and Homer Lloyd "Kit" Carson (1899–1983), a power company manager. Carson was the second of three children; he had an older sister, Catherine "Kit" (Carson) Sotzing (1923–2014) and a younger brother, Richard "Dick" Carson (1929–2021). Growing up in Iowa, Carson lived in
29328-401: The late 1960s or early 1970s, he narrated a National Association of Broadcasters PSA featuring A Boy Wandering Around a Forest. After doing The Star and the Story , a rejected television pilot with Van Johnson , Cavett hosted a special, Where It's At , for Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear . In 1968, Cavett was hired by ABC to host This Morning . According to a New Yorker article, the show
29536-506: The live taping from Burbank to New York via satellite for editing (see below ). Carson had a talent for quick quips to deal with problems. If the opening monologue fared poorly, the band would start playing " Tea for Two " and Carson danced a softshoe to laughs from the studio audience. Alternatively, Carson might pull the boom microphone close to his face and announce, "Attention K-Mart shoppers, clean up in aisle four!" On May 1, 1972, The Tonight Show moved from 30 Rockefeller Plaza to
29744-427: The mid-1970s, he had become the highest-paid personality on television, earning about $ 4 million a year ($ 18,686,000 today), not including nightclub appearances and his other businesses. Carson refused many offers to appear in films, including title roles in The Thomas Crown Affair and Gene Wilder 's role in Blazing Saddles . He also declined director Martin Scorsese 's offer to co-star with Robert De Niro in
29952-399: The movie Power Play (1977). Cavett appeared in Kate & Allie (1986), Cheers (1983), and in Robert Altman 's Health (1980). In a cameo in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), as part of a dream sequence, he turned into Freddy Krueger and slashed his guest, Zsa Zsa Gabor , halfway through the interview. In Tim Burton 's Beetlejuice (1988), he played
30160-401: The newsletter's staff included individuals who had created the Times ' s dialect quiz, fourth down analyzer, and a calculator for determining buying or renting a home. The Upshot debuted in April 2014. Fast Company reviewed an article about Illinois Secure Choice — a state-funded retirement saving system — as "neither a terse news item, nor a formal financial advice column, nor
30368-404: The newspaper for an article saying that he was the highest-paid performer on television, earning $ 75,000 (equivalent to $ 623,140 in 2023) a week. He denied that was so, while declining to reveal his compensation in a subsequent interview with the newspaper, and called the article "damned unfair." The Times published a follow-up article saying that its initial reporter "erred", and that $ 75,000
30576-453: The newspaper's structure. Ochs established the Times as a merchant's newspaper and removed the hyphen from the newspaper's name. In 1905, The New York Times opened Times Tower , marking expansion. The Times experienced a political realignment in the 1910s amid several disagreements within the Republican Party . The New York Times reported on the sinking of the Titanic , as other newspapers were cautious about bulletins circulated by
30784-452: The only witness of the Manhattan Project, a detail realized by employees of The New York Times following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima . Following World War II , The New York Times continued to expand. The Times was subject to investigations from the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee , a McCarthyist subcommittee that investigated purported communism from within press institutions. Arthur Hays Sulzberger 's decision to dismiss
30992-441: The opening and closing segments. Carson imitated Benny and claimed that Benny had copied his gestures. Benny predicted that Carson, who readily admitted Benny's substantial influence on aspects of his comedic delivery, would have a successful career as a comedian. Carson hosted several shows besides Carson's Cellar , including the game show Earn Your Vacation (1954) and the variety show The Johnny Carson Show (1955–1956). He
31200-442: The pages were reduced to 15.5 inches (390 mm). On February 14, 1955, a further reduction to 15 inches (380 mm) occurred, followed by 14.5 and 13.5 inches (370 and 340 mm). On August 6, 2007, the largest cut occurred when the pages were reduced to 12 inches (300 mm), a decision that other broadsheets had previously considered. Then-executive editor Bill Keller stated that a narrower paper would be more beneficial to
31408-497: The paper from Raymond, who had changed its name to The New-York Times . Under Jones, the Times began to publish a series of articles criticizing Tammany Hall political boss William M. Tweed , despite vehement opposition from other New York newspapers. In 1871, The New-York Times published Tammany Hall's accounting books; Tweed was tried in 1873 and sentenced to twelve years in prison. The Times earned national recognition for its coverage of Tweed. In 1891, Jones died, creating
31616-438: The paper has produced several television series, podcasts — including The Daily — and games through The New York Times Games . The New York Times has been involved in several controversies in its history. The Times maintains several regional bureaus staffed with journalists across six continents, and has received 137 Pulitzer Prizes as of 2023, the most of any publication, among other accolades. The New York Times
31824-496: The paper. The descender of the "h" was shortened on December 30, 1914. The largest change to the nameplate was introduced on February 21, 1967, when type designer Ed Benguiat redesigned the logo, most prominently turning the arrow ornament into a diamond. Notoriously, the new logo dropped the period that remained with the Times up until that point; one reader compared the omission of the period to "performing plastic surgery on Helen of Troy ." Picture editor John Radosta worked with
32032-561: The passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 was a "big fucking deal". The Times ' s profanity policy has been tested by former president Donald Trump . The New York Times published Trump's Access Hollywood tape in October 2016, containing the words "fuck", "pussy", "bitch", and "tits", the first time the publication had published an expletive on its front page, and repeated an explicit phrase for fellatio stated by then- White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci in July 2017. The New York Times omitted Trump's use of
32240-429: The performance and doing a 10-minute monologue. In January 2020, Cavett appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert promoting the new HBO special, Ali and Cavett: The Tales of the Tapes . There he talked about his career as a comedian and talk show host, as well as his relationship with Muhammad Ali . In January 2020, when Cavett appeared as a guest on Late Show with Stephen Colbert , Colbert stated that he
32448-554: The phrase " shithole countries " from its headline in favor of "vulgar language" in January 2018. The Times banned certain words, such as "bitch", "whore", and "sluts", from Wordle in 2022. Journalists for The New York Times do not write their own headlines, but rather copy editors who specifically write headlines. The Times ' s guidelines insist headline editors get to the main point of an article but avoid giving away endings, if present. Other guidelines include using slang "sparingly", avoiding tabloid headlines , not ending
32656-430: The physical size of its print edition while retaining its broadsheet format. The New-York Daily Times debuted at 18 inches (460 mm) across. By the 1950s, the Times was being printed at 16 inches (410 mm) across. In 1953, an increase in paper costs to US$ 10 (equivalent to $ 113.88 in 2023) a ton increased newsprint costs to US$ 21.7 million (equivalent to $ 308,616,417.91 in 2023) On December 28, 1953,
32864-434: The political blog FiveThirtyEight in a three-year agreement. The blog, written by Nate Silver , had garnered attention during the 2008 presidential election for predicting the elections in forty-nine of fifty states. FiveThirtyEight appeared on nytimes.com in August. According to Silver, several offers were made for the blog; Silver wrote that a merger of unequals must allow for editorial sovereignty and resources from
33072-511: The position until his retirement in 1961. John Bertram Oakes served as opinion editor from 1961 to 1976, when then-publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger appointed Max Frankel . Frankel served in the position until 1986, when he was appointed as executive editor. Jack Rosenthal was the opinion editor from 1986 to 1993. Howell Raines succeeded Rosenthal until 2001, when he was made executive editor. Gail Collins succeeded Raines until her resignation in 2006. From 2007 to 2016, Andrew Rosenthal
33280-418: The print version of the Times , these headlines are written by one copy editor, reviewed by two other copy editors, approved by the masthead editors, and polished by other print editors. The process is completed before 8 p.m., but it may be repeated if further development occur, as did take place during the 2020 presidential election . On the day Joe Biden was declared the winner, The New York Times utilized
33488-419: The print version to use "wiretapped" in order to fit within the print guidelines. The nameplate of The New York Times has been unaltered since 1967. In creating the initial nameplate, Henry Jarvis Raymond sought to model The London Times , which used a Blackletter style called Textura , popularized following the fall of the Western Roman Empire and regional variations of Alcuin 's script, as well as
33696-446: The producer of nearly all of Woody Allen's films. One of his jokes from this period was: I went to a Chinese-German restaurant. The food is great, but an hour later you're hungry for power. Cavett also played Mr. Kelly's in Chicago and Enrico Banducci 's hungry i in San Francisco. In San Francisco, he met Lenny Bruce , about whom he said, "I liked him and wish I had known him better ... but most of what has been written about him
33904-587: The program. At the time, media analysts estimated the show generated 17% of NBC's pre-tax profits. He negotiated a three-year deal to remain with the show in May 1980, reducing the program's length from ninety to sixty minutes while decreasing his workload from four to three nights each week. Tom Snyder 's Tomorrow added a half-hour to fill the vacant time. Joan Rivers became the "permanent" guest host from September 1983 until 1986. The Tonight Show then returned to using rotating guest hosts, including comics George Carlin and Garry Shandling . Jay Leno became
34112-417: The reader but acknowledged a net loss in article space of five percent. In 1985, The New York Times Company established a minority stake in a US$ 21.7 million (equivalent to $ 308,616,417.91 in 2023) newsprint plant in Clermont, Quebec through Donahue Malbaie . The company sold its equity interest in Donahue Malbaie in 2017. The New York Times often uses large, bolded headlines for major events. For
34320-413: The real Carson emerged from behind the curtain (as Letterman's band played "Johnny's Theme"), an appearance that prompted a 90-second standing ovation from the audience. Carson then asked to sit behind Letterman's desk; Letterman obliged, as the audience continued to cheer and applaud. After some moments, Carson departed from the show without having spoken to the audience. He later cited acute laryngitis as
34528-476: The role of host to the show's then-current permanent guest host, Jay Leno. Leno and David Letterman were soon competing on separate networks. At the end of his final Tonight Show episode, Carson indicated that he might, if so inspired, return with a new project. Instead, he chose to go into full retirement, rarely giving interviews and declining to participate in NBC's 75th-anniversary celebrations. He made an occasional cameo appearance, including voicing himself on
34736-441: The roof of the local courthouse that would report on the political corruption they had seen. Carson supplemented his income by serving as master of ceremonies at local church dinners—attended by some of the same politicians and civic leaders he had lampooned on the radio. The wife of one of the Omaha political figures that Carson spoofed owned stock in a radio station in Los Angeles , and in 1951 referred Carson to her brother, who
34944-520: The satellite transmissions of the live taping in the early 1980s. The satellite link was replaced by microwave transmission until the show's editing facilities were moved to Burbank. Carson played himself in the 1964 film Looking for Love . Carson also played an assassin of comedians in the 1970s Bob Hope television special Joys! Guests on the broadcast included Groucho Marx , George Burns , Telly Savalas , Milton Berle , Red Buttons , Don Adams , and Steve Allen . Carson often made jokes at
35152-551: The scandal, culminating in a town hall in which a deputy editor criticized Raines for failing to question Blair's sources in article he wrote on the D.C. sniper attacks . In June 2003, Raines and Boyd resigned. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. appointed Bill Keller as executive editor. Miller continued to report on the Iraq War as a journalistic embed covering the country's weapons of mass destruction program. Keller and then-Washington bureau chief Jill Abramson unsuccessfully attempted to subside criticism. Conservative media criticized
35360-444: The show in 1962. Carson's success on Who Do You Trust? led NBC to invite him to take over Tonight a few months before Paar's departure. Carson declined the offer because he feared the difficulty of interviewing celebrities for 105 minutes each day. Bob Newhart , Jackie Gleason , Groucho Marx and Joey Bishop also declined. NBC finally convinced Carson to sign by early February 1962. He can be seen discussing his upcoming job for
35568-492: The show, Paar worked in some of the lines that Cavett had fed him. Afterward, Cavett got into an elevator with Paar, who invited him to contribute more jokes. Within weeks, Cavett was hired, originally as talent coordinator. Cavett wrote for Paar the famous line "Here they are, Jayne Mansfield " as an introduction for the buxom actress. Cavett appeared on the show in 1961, acting as interpreter for Miss Universe of 1961, Marlene Schmidt of Germany. While at Time , Cavett wrote
35776-483: The show, including: Although Carson's program moved to Burbank in 1972, NBC's editing and production services for the show remained in New York, requiring that the program be transmitted between the two cities. In 1976, NBC used the Satcom 2 satellite to achieve this, feeding the live taping (which started around 5:30 pm local time) directly to New York, where it would be edited prior to the late-night broadcast. This live feed lasted usually for two to two-and-a-half hours
35984-405: The story and panic buying and hoarding ensued across the United States as consumers emptied stores, causing a real shortage that lasted for weeks. Stores and toilet paper manufacturers had to ration supplies until the panic ended. Carson apologized in January 1974 for the incident, which became what The New York Times called a "classic study" of how rumors spread. Carson called references in
36192-688: The subject of three separate investigations. During the COVID-19 pandemic , the Times began implementing data services and graphs. On May 23, 2020, The New York Times ' s front page solely featured U.S. Deaths Near 100,000, An Incalculable Loss , a subset of the 100,000 people in the United States who died of COVID-19, the first time that the Times ' s front page lacked images since they were introduced. Since 2020, The New York Times has focused on broader diversification, developing online games and producing television series. The New York Times Company acquired The Athletic in January 2022. Since 1896, The New York Times has been published by
36400-443: The suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing and covering the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in greater detail than the print edition. The New York Times Electronic Media Company was adversely affected by the dot-com crash . The Times extensively covered the September 11 attacks . The following day's print issue contained sixty-six articles, the work of over three hundred dispatched reporters. Journalist Judith Miller
36608-407: The theater with the beguiling charm of talented luminaries. Mr. Cavett was clearly overawed, and for once, the ad libs frequently went over his head. It was an enchanting show ... and the badinage was warm and delightful ... a fun night, and to take out of context a line or here or there could not convey the whole. To go to bed with a chuckle provided by gifted and nice people, onstage as off,
36816-411: The theoretical use of aluminum tubes to produce nuclear material was speculation. In March 2003, the United States invaded Iraq , beginning the Iraq War . The New York Times attracted controversy after thirty-six articles from journalist Jayson Blair were discovered to be plagiarized. Criticism over then-executive editor Howell Raines and then-managing editor Gerald M. Boyd mounted following
37024-446: The time to see our work can begin to understand the depth of it." Carson later apologized to Rogers for making fun of him. In 1979, Carson invested $ 500,000 (equivalent to $ 2,099,037 in 2023) in the DeLorean Motor Company . Additionally, Carson was head of a group of investors who purchased and operated two television stations. The first was KVVU-TV in Henderson, Nevada , an independent station serving Las Vegas , acquired by
37232-443: The time, most newspapers favored the end of the hostage crisis, but the Times placed the inauguration above the crisis. Since 1981, the paddle wheel has been used twice; on July 26, 2000, when the 2000 Camp David Summit ended without an agreement and when Bush announced that Dick Cheney would be his running mate, and on June 24, 2016, when the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum passed, beginning Brexit , and when
37440-451: The towns of Avoca , Clarinda and Red Oak before moving to Norfolk , Nebraska , at age 8. There, Carson grew up and began developing his talent for entertaining. At age 12 he found a book on magic at a friend's house and immediately purchased a mail-order magician's kit. After purchasing the kit, Carson practiced his entertainment skills on family members with card tricks. He was known for following his family members around saying, "Pick
37648-406: The veracity of all written claims, but may delegate researching obscure facts to the research desk. In March 2021, the Times established a committee to avoid journalistic conflicts of interest with work written for The New York Times , following columnist David Brooks 's resignation from the Aspen Institute for his undisclosed work on the initiative Weave. The New York Times editorial board
37856-443: Was " Scottish , Irish, English, and possibly partly French, and ... a dose of German." He also mentioned that one grandfather "came over" from England, and the other from Wales . Cavett's grandparents all lived in Grand Island, Nebraska . His paternal grandparents were Alva A. Cavett and Gertrude Pinsch. His paternal grandfather was from Diller, Nebraska , and his paternal grandmother was an immigrant from Aachen , Germany, which
38064-426: Was a copyboy ( gofer ) at Time magazine when he read a newspaper item about Jack Paar , then host of The Tonight Show . The article described Paar's concerns about his opening monologue and constant search for material. Cavett wrote some jokes, put them into a Time envelope, and went to the RCA Building . He ran into Paar in a hallway and handed him the envelope. He then went to sit in the studio audience. During
38272-459: Was a guest panelist on the original To Tell the Truth beginning in 1960, becoming a regular panelist from 1961 to 1962. After the primetime Johnny Carson Show failed, Carson moved to New York City to host ABC 's Who Do You Trust? (1957–1962). It was on Who Do You Trust? that Carson met his future sidekick and straight man , Ed McMahon . Although Carson believed moving to daytime television would hurt his career, Who Do You Trust?
38480-564: Was a huge admirer of Cavett, and had seen all of his talk shows. Colbert also stated, "People ask me who my influences are, and of course Johnny Carson , and of course David Letterman , but the one people don't automatically know is what a huge influence you were on me, the way you interviewed people was so honest, you had such interesting and unusual guests and asked such interesting and deep questions". Cavett has co-authored two books with Christopher Porterfield: Cavett (1974), his autobiography, and Eye on Cavett (1983). Cavett has also written
38688-466: Was a success. It was the first show where he could ad lib and interview guests, and because of his on-camera wit, the show became "the hottest item on daytime television" during his six years at ABC. From his experience as a radio host, Carson would later write a parody for The New Yorker of former talk show host Dennis Miller having the new role at the time (2000) as an NFL sports announcer, titled " Proverbs of Dennis Miller ". NBC 's Tonight
38896-695: Was about to pack up the next day and go back to Tel Aviv . I thought, That's it — I'm destroyed." However, ironically, this appearance on The Tonight Show , which Carson and Randi had orchestrated to debunk Geller's claimed abilities, backfired. According to Higginbotham, To Geller's astonishment, he was immediately booked on The Merv Griffin Show . He was on his way to becoming a paranormal superstar. "That Johnny Carson show made Uri Geller," Geller said. To an enthusiastically trusting public, his failure only made his gifts seem more real: If he were performing magic tricks, they would surely work every time. Carson played several continuing characters on sketches during
39104-447: Was actress Sandy Dennis . Cavett was elected president of the student council in high school, and was a gold medalist at the state gymnastics championship. Before leaving for college, he worked as a caddie at the Lincoln Country Club. He also began performing magic shows for $ 35 a night under the tutelage of Gene Gloye. In 1952, Cavett attended the convention of the International Brotherhood of Magicians in St. Louis, Missouri, and won
39312-535: Was born in Buffalo County, Nebraska , but sources differ as to the specific town, locating his birthplace in either Gibbon , where his family lived, or nearby Kearney , the location of the nearest hospital. Cavett has said that his birth certificate gives Kearney as his birthplace, but has given conflicting answers on whether he was actually born there. His mother, Erabel "Era" (née Richards), and his father, Alva B. Cavett, both worked as teachers. When asked by Lucille Ball on his own show about his heritage, he said he
39520-418: Was broadcast mainly in Europe. In 1988, Cavett made a special appearance on Wheel of Fortune during their week of shows at Radio City Music Hall , walking on stage after someone solved the puzzle "Dick Cavett." In 1974, Cavett's company, Daphne Productions, co-produced with Don Lipp Productions a short-lived ABC game show, The Money Maze , although Cavett's name did not appear on the credits. He also had
39728-408: Was established in 1851 by New-York Tribune journalists Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones . The Times experienced significant circulation, particularly among conservatives; New-York Tribune publisher Horace Greeley praised the New-York Daily Times . During the American Civil War , Times correspondents gathered information directly from Confederate states. In 1869, Jones inherited
39936-424: Was established in 1896 by Adolph Ochs . With the opinion department, the editorial board is independent of the newsroom. Then-editor-in-chief Charles Ransom Miller served as opinion editor from 1883 until his death in 1922. Rollo Ogden succeeded Miller until his death in 1937. From 1937 to 1938, John Huston Finley served as opinion editor; in a prearranged plan, Charles Merz succeeded Finley. Merz served in
40144-490: Was forced to borrow $ 250 million (equivalent to $ 353.79 million in 2023) from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim and fired over one hundred employees by 2010. nytimes.com's coverage of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal , resulting in the resignation of then-New York governor Eliot Spitzer , furthered the legitimacy of the website as a journalistic medium. The Times ' s economic downturn renewed discussions of an online paywall; The New York Times implemented
40352-486: Was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987. Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993. During World War II , Carson served in the United States Navy . After the war he started a career in radio, then moved to television and took over as host of the late-night talk show Tonight from Jack Paar in 1962. Carson remained an American cultural icon even after his retirement in 1992. He adopted
40560-556: Was influential in the emerging television market in Southern California . Carson joined CBS -owned Los Angeles television station KNXT (now KCBS-TV ). In 1953, comic Red Skelton —a fan of Carson's low-budget sketch comedy show, Carson's Cellar (1951-1953) on KNXT—asked Carson to join his show as a writer. The following year, Skelton accidentally knocked himself unconscious during rehearsal, an hour before his live show began. Carson successfully filled in for him. In 1955, Jack Benny invited Carson to appear on one of his programs during
40768-435: Was installed as the maestro of the NBC Orchestra. McMahon's famous introduction, "Heeeeere's Johnny!!!" was followed by a brief monologue by Carson. This was often followed by comedy sketches , interviews and live music. Carson's trademark was a phantom golf swing at the end of his monologues, aimed stage left toward the orchestra. (Guest hosts sometimes parodied that gesture. Newhart rolled an imaginary bowling ball toward
40976-648: Was not going to be interviewed, but instead was expected to display his abilities using the provided articles. Geller was unable to display any paranormal abilities, saying, "I don't feel strong" and expressing displeasure at feeling like he was being "pressed" to perform by Carson. According to Adam Higginbotham's November 7, 2014, article in The New York Times : The result was a legendary immolation, in which Geller offered up flustered excuses to his host as his abilities failed him again and again. "I sat there for 22 minutes, humiliated," Geller told me, when I spoke to him in September. "I went back to my hotel, devastated. I
41184-452: Was published on the Times ' s intranet in 1999. The New York Times uses honorifics when referring to individuals. With the AP Stylebook ' s removal of honorifics in 2000 and The Wall Street Journal ' s omission of courtesy titles in May 2023, the Times is the only national newspaper that continues to use honorifics. According to former copy editor Merrill Perlman, The New York Times continues to use honorifics as
41392-436: Was released on April 3, 2010, with the release of the first-generation iPad . In October, The New York Times expanded NYT Editors' Choice to include the paper's full articles. NYT for iPad was free until 2011. The Times applications on iPhone and iPad began offering in-app subscriptions in July 2011. The Times released a web application for iPad — featuring a format summarizing trending headlines on Twitter — and
41600-476: Was required to attend a driver's education alcohol program. Carson's driving privilege was restricted to driving only to and from work and alcohol education classes for a period of 90 days. Perry Mason actor Raymond Burr became angry over Carson's continuing jokes about his weight, and he appeared on The Tonight Show only twice, in 1968 and 1976. On July 2, 1969, Carson launched an on-air attack on The New York Times after his nightly monologue, assailing
41808-444: Was sent to the Blue Angel nightclub to see Woody Allen 's act, and immediately afterward struck up a friendship. The very next day, the funeral of playwright George S. Kaufman was held at the Frank E. Campbell funeral home . Allen could not attend, but Cavett did, where he met Groucho Marx in an anteroom. From the funeral, Cavett followed Marx (who later told Cavett that Kaufman was "his personal god") three blocks up Fifth Avenue to
42016-419: Was surprised at footage from his TV show appearing in Apollo 13 . He said at the time of the film's release, "I'm happily enjoying a movie, and suddenly I'm in it." Cavett has appeared as himself in various other television shows, such as The Odd Couple as well as serving as a host for Saturday Night Live in 1976. He also had a cameo role in Woody Allen 's Annie Hall (1977) and he played himself in
42224-462: Was ten, his mother died of cancer at age 36. His father subsequently married Dorcas Deland, also a teacher, originally from Alliance, Nebraska . On September 24, 1995, Lincoln Public Schools dedicated the new Dorcas C. and Alva B. Cavett Elementary School in their honor. In eighth grade, Cavett directed a live Saturday-morning radio show sponsored by the Junior League and played the title role in The Winslow Boy . One of his high-school classmates
42432-431: Was the late-night counterpart to its early-morning show Today . Originating in 1954 with host Steve Allen , Tonight was somewhat experimental at the time, as the only previous network late-night program was NBC's Broadway Open House (1950-51), which starred Jerry Lester and Dagmar . Tonight was successful. Allen moved to primetime comedy-variety shows in 1957 when Jack Paar became host of Tonight . Paar left
42640-520: Was the opinion editor. James Bennet succeeded Rosenthal until his resignation in 2020. As of July 2024 , the editorial board comprises thirteen opinion writers. The New York Times ' s opinion editor is Kathleen Kingsbury and the deputy opinion editor is Patrick Healy. The New York Times ' s editorial board was initially opposed to liberal beliefs, opposing women's suffrage in 1900 and 1914. The editorial board began to espouse progressive beliefs during Oakes' tenure, conflicting with
42848-421: Was the recipient of a package containing a white powder during the 2001 anthrax attacks , furthering anxiety within The New York Times . In September 2002, Miller and military correspondent Michael R. Gordon wrote an article for the Times claiming that Iraq had purchased aluminum tubes . The article was cited by then-president George W. Bush to claim that Iraq was constructing weapons of mass destruction ;
43056-408: Was too sophisticated for a morning audience, and ABC first moved the show to prime time, and subsequently to a late-night slot opposite Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show . Intermittently since 1968, Cavett has been host of his own talk show, in various formats and on various television and radio networks: Cavett has been nominated for at least 10 Emmy Awards and has won three. In 1970, he co-hosted
43264-452: Was updated to support collaborative editing using Firebase to update editors's cursor status. Several Google Cloud Functions and Google Cloud Tasks allow articles to be previewed as they will be printed, and the Times ' s primary MySQL database is regularly updated to update editors on the article status. Since 1895, The New York Times has maintained a manual of style in several forms. The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage
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