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Sulzberger: The Story of America, Told in 15 Million First Drafts of HistoryCredit...Lola DupreSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTListen \u00b7 10:08 min Share full articleBy A.G. SulzbergerMr. Sulzberger is the publisher of The New York Times.Sept. 18, 2026This story is part of a series marking 175 years of eyewitness journalism from The New York Times. Read more here.Above my desk hangs an engraving of an island. It depicts a still-young city in a still-young nation. Its cobblestone streets are lined with squat buildings, none taller than a church spire. No bridges or tunnels in sight, schooners and paddle-steam ferries crowd a shoreline bustling with working piers. This is New York City in 1851.On Sept. 18 of that year, at the south end of the island, on Nassau Street, the newspaper we know today as The New York Times published its first issue. Put together in unfinished lofts by candlelight, it consisted of four dense, colorless pages of text. It sold for a penny.On Friday, The New York Times turns 175. Over the past several months, I\u2019ve found myself drawn to that engraving on my office wall. How unlikely it is that a newspaper born before indoor electricity \u2014 let alone cars, radio, telephones, planes and computers \u2014 is still here. And how fortunate The Times is to have witnessed and chronicled and interrogated so much history in all those years.At The Times, we believe the job of a newspaper is to seek the truth, to help people understand the world and to hold the powerful to account. This means equipping people with the information they need to make decisions. It means bonding our diverse communities with a fuller understanding of the lives, hopes and concerns of our neighbors. It means asking tough questions of government and business leaders on the public\u2019s behalf. It means doing all this with an ironclad commitment to fairness, accuracy and independence \u2014 delivering the news, as our longstanding credo puts it, \u201cimpartially, without fear or favor.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTIt\u2019s fitting therefore that the 175th anniversary of The Times arrives as we celebrate a bigger milestone: America\u2019s 250th. Truth, understanding and accountability are essential to a strong nation and a healthy democracy.Through 61,011 editions and some 15 million articles, the pages of The Times tell the story of America\u2019s remarkable growth from an upstart nation of 24 million people to a global superpower of nearly 350 million. The pages announce the arrival of new technologies and track the upheavals that followed. They chronicle battles for equal rights and the expansion of who is recognized as an American. They reveal the damage inflicted by wars, economic busts and moments of tragedy \u2014 and document the triumphs, economic booms and can-do resilience of a country that usually emerges stronger.Sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert analysis of the news and a guide to the big ideas shaping the world every weekday morning. Get it sent to your inbox.Taken together, they\u2019re the first draft of American history. A new volume is added daily, a report so robust and wide-ranging that, on average, it could fill a 1,000-page book. The primary authors of this work are the reporters we\u2019ve sent out to witness the world and to share what they have seen \u2014 not just establishing the facts but also wrapping them in context and explaining why they matter.We were there when the first shots of the Civil War rang out at Fort Sumter \u2014 our correspondent was promptly arrested as a Union spy \u2014 and then through the years of battles that followed, some of which President Abraham Lincoln\u2019s war secretary read about in our pages before the generals could send word of them.In the Roaring Twenties, our Wall Street reporting warned of recklessness in the markets, upsetting powerful financiers. After the country toppled into the Great Depression, a leading banker declared, \u201cOur American community would have been better off today if it could have heeded that voice.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTOur correspondents braved the battlefields of World War II; some lost their lives and others were taken prisoner in Germany, Italy and Japan. The Times, in turn, used its scarce government-rationed paper supplies to ensure all these reports reached the American public, turning away advertisements in the process.In one of the darkest moments of the civil rights movement, one of our reporters was in Memphis at the Lorraine Motel when an assassin shot Martin Luther King Jr. \u201cWrite. Write, write down everything you see,\u201d he told himself as he took in the scene. \u201cGet it all down.\u201dAnd 25 years ago this month, when others fled the collapse of the twin towers, our reporters charged toward the burning rubble. Over the next two decades, our journalists lived in Afghanistan and Iraq full time to tell the stories of the wars that followed. We continue to report from both countries today. If we don\u2019t document the lessons and consequences of America\u2019s longest wars, how will the country learn from them?Although our commitment to the highest journalistic standards is unsurpassed, we\u2019ve also made mistakes, both big and small, along the way. When we err, we strive to be transparent with our audience about what went wrong and push ourselves to do better.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThis is what it means to be the country\u2019s paper of record: a great and imperfect newspaper steadfastly chronicling a great and imperfect nation.ImageCredit...Lola DupreThe Times, and the model of independent reporting we have championed, would not have endured were it not for the abiding commitment of the United States to free inquiry and free expression. America\u2019s bold experiment with democracy, likewise, would have stumbled long ago were it not for news organizations exercising their rights under the First Amendment. Self-governance requires citizens to have access to reliable sources of information to make informed choices and know when their leaders aren\u2019t acting in their best interests. This is why the press is the only profession explicitly protected in the Constitution. It is, as the founders believed, \u201cone of the great bulwarks of liberty.\u201dToday, the future of America\u2019s free press is uncertain. As the advertising-based business model that long supported original reporting has collapsed, the country has lost nearly 3,500 newspapers and a vast majority of local journalism jobs in just two decades. This erosion appears poised to continue as the journalism produced at great cost by news organizations is stolen and repurposed at unprecedented scale by the tech giants behind artificial intelligence. And in this financially weakened state, the press is simultaneously confronting, and sometimes buckling in the face of, the most direct political attacks on its rights and legitimacy in more than a century. All this has left fewer reporters backed by the institutional resources and institutional courage needed to do this difficult work \u2014 to witness events that might otherwise go unseen, to uncover abuses of power that have never been easier to obscure.Over 175 years, The Times has become well practiced in working in the face of intense pressure. My colleagues have been kidnapped, arrested and shot at in the course of their work. One survived a land mine detonating underfoot, and another survived a helicopter crash. Some have been surveilled and expelled by foreign nations. Others have been protested, investigated and dragged into court.In the 1870s, New York\u2019s William \u201cBoss\u201d Tweed, whose political machine controlled just about every corner of city and state government, worked to block a Times expos\u00e9 that would trigger his downfall. His associates started with threats and eventually offered a bribe worth well over $100 million today, which The Times\u2019s publisher quickly rejected. Almost a century later, when fists, billy clubs and bullets didn\u2019t discourage our reporters from covering the civil rights movement, segregationists weaponized the courts by filing a wave of lawsuits intended to bankrupt The Times.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTPresidents of both parties have done their best to pressure the press and discourage reporting they haven\u2019t liked. John F. Kennedy spied on one of our reporters. Richard Nixon tried to block the publication of the Pentagon Papers. George W. Bush and Barack Obama both used the courts to try to force Times reporters to reveal confidential sources. No president in modern history has been more hostile than Donald Trump to a press he\u2019s dubbed \u201cthe enemy of the people.\u201d He accuses reporters of treason, a crime punishable by death. He personally sues news organizations when their coverage displeases him. He directs his administration to use the levers of government power to investigate, subpoena and prosecute journalists for doing their jobs. But in a reminder of the press\u2019s lasting importance, Mr. Trump, like his predecessors, still reads The Times. He still relies on us, still takes questions from us and still quotes us when convenient. Indeed, during a visit to The Times, he told my colleagues and me that he thinks of us as \u201ca great, great American jewel, a world jewel.\u201dThe mounting pressure on the free press makes this an especially opportune time to remind ourselves that our country depends on trustworthy sources of information, context and accountability as much as it ever has. Indeed perhaps more so, as the remaining news outlets committed to original, independent reporting in the public interest are overtaken by the surge of social media influencers, partisan propagandists and A.I. bots peddling fear, outrage and misinformation.Reporters are very often how we know what we know. They have not just chronicled our country\u2019s first 250 years; they\u2019ve also empowered the public and kept its officials honest. The current period of democratic erosion around the world offers a clear warning that when a free press is undermined, other freedoms will soon fall as well. If this sounds overstated, I challenge anyone to find a country where people are free but the press isn\u2019t.The confluence of America\u2019s and The Times\u2019s anniversaries is a welcome reminder of this enduring connection. It contains an implicit promise of continuity: Our nation has been through a lot and will find a way through whatever comes next. But these anniversaries also remind us that our history must be recorded to be learned from. Is our moment really unprecedented? How did similar events unfold the last time? What worked? What didn\u2019t? What comes next? As always, the lessons of our shared past and hopes for our shared future can be found in the pages of The New York Times.From the commentsA.G. SulzbergerPublisher, The New York TimesThe Times, and the model of independent reporting we have championed, would not have endured were it not for the abiding commitment of the United States to free inquiry and free expression. The current period of democratic erosion around the world offers a clear warning that when a free press is undermined, other freedoms will soon fall as well. If this sounds overstated, I challenge anyone to find a country where people are free but the press isn\u2019t.A.G. Sulzberger is the publisher of The New York Times and the chairman of The New York Times Company. He is the sixth member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family to lead the company since it was purchased in 1896.The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. We\u2019d like to hear what you think about this or any of our articles. Here are some tips. And here\u2019s our email: letters@nytimes.com.Follow the New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky, WhatsApp and Threads.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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