About The New York Times
The New York Times is a daily newspaper published by The New York Times Company. By the company’s own account it was founded in 1851 as the New-York Daily Times, and passed to Adolph Ochs in 1896, whose pledge to “give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interests involved” the company still publishes as a statement of its editorial stance.
Subscription Business
The company reports one operating segment, built around subscriptions rather than advertising. Its Form 10-K for 2025 states that the Times ended the year with approximately 12.78 million subscribers to its print and digital products, of which approximately 12.21 million were digital-only. Roughly 6.48 million of those digital-only subscribers held bundle or multiproduct subscriptions — that is, subscriptions covering more than one product. Print domestic home-delivery subscribers totalled approximately 570,000, a net decrease of about 40,000 over the year.
Digital-only average revenue per user was $9.68 in 2025. The company states an aim of reaching 15 million total subscribers by the end of 2027.
Products
Beyond the news report, The New York Times Company sells The Athletic (sports), and Audio, Cooking, Games and Wirecutter products, and it markets these as a bundle. Subscribers are counted across 234 countries and territories, with international subscribers making up approximately 26% of digital-only subscriptions at the end of 2025.
Editorial Standard
This page does not characterize the paper’s political coverage or its editorial slant, because no source consulted for it supports such a characterization. The standard the company itself publishes is the Ochs pledge quoted above.
Sources
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The New York Times Company. History. The company's own account of the paper's founding as the New-York Daily Times, first published September 18, 1851, and of Adolph Ochs's 1896 purchase and his pledge to "give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interests involved."
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The New York Times Company, Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025. (2026). Source for the subscriber figures, the product list, the 234-country distribution, the international share of digital subscriptions, digital-only ARPU, and the company's stated 15-million-subscriber target for 2027.