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  • 1. What percentage of readers identified as liberal in a 2019 internal poll by The New York Times?
A) 50%
B) 72%
C) 91%
D) 84%
  • 2. Which organization conducted an analysis in 2014 that placed the Times readership as ideologically liberal?
A) Gallup
B) The Associated Press
C) Pew Research Center
D) Reuters
  • 3. What term has critics used to describe the Times's coverage of Donald Trump's right-wing viewpoints?
A) Whitewashing
B) Soft-pedaling
C) Sanewashing
D) Greenwashing
  • 4. In what year did The New York Times crossword debut?
A) 1950
B) 1939
C) 1941
D) 1942
  • 5. Who was the publisher of The New York Times who believed crosswords would help during blackouts?
A) Arthur Hays Sulzberger
B) Sam Sifton
C) Amanda Hesser
D) Craig Claiborne
  • 6. When did The New York Times launch its NYT Cooking application and website?
A) August 2023
B) May 2016
C) September 2010
D) September 2014
  • 7. Who is the editor of the NYT Cooking website?
A) Amanda Hesser
B) Craig Claiborne
C) Nina Compton
D) Sam Sifton
  • 8. What specific terms did the Times restrict reporters from using in its coverage of the war on Gaza?
A) Occupation, apartheid, and resistance
B) Palestine, genocide, and refugee camps
C) Hamas, terror, and victory
D) Border, blockade, and settlement
  • 9. What happened to the meal delivery startup Chef'd which partnered with The New York Times?
A) It shut down in 2018
B) It rebranded as NYT Cooking
C) It successfully went public
D) It was bought by the Times
  • 10. What technology was added to NYT Cooking in August 2023 for personalized recommendations?
A) Neural machine translation
B) Cosine similarity of text embeddings
C) Collaborative filtering
D) Blockchain verification
  • 11. How long has The New York Times been publishing recipes?
A) Since the 1850s
B) Since the 1940s
C) Since the 1910s
D) Since the 1960s
  • 12. Which company managed The New York Times Wine Club by 2021?
A) Global Wine Company
B) Williams Sonoma
C) Lot18
D) Tasting Room
  • 13. What concept did Sam Sifton propose for NYT Cooking?
A) One-pot meals
B) Vegan-only menu
C) No-recipe recipes
D) Budget cooking
  • 14. Which group wrote in the blog Mondoweiss criticizing the Times's war coverage?
A) Journalists for Truth
B) Writers Against the War on Gaza
C) Global Press Alliance
D) The Media Watchdog Group
  • 15. What was a major difficulty the Times faced in establishing a cooking website before 2014?
A) High licensing fees
B) Copyright issues with chefs
C) Absence of a defined data structure
D) Lack of user interest
  • 16. As of June 2026, how many total subscribers does The New York Times have?
A) 13.35 million
B) 12.8 million
C) 10 million
D) 15 million
  • 17. What is the subscriber target for The New York Times Company by 2027?
A) 13.35 million
B) 20 million
C) 15 million
D) 12.8 million
  • 18. In what year did The New York Times debut its online paywall?
A) 2016
B) 2001
C) 2022
D) 2011
  • 19. According to Vox in 2022, what is a characteristic of The New York Times's subscribers?
A) Liberal
B) Younger
C) Conservative
D) Non-white
  • 20. Who is the chief executive of The New York Times Company?
A) Nate Silver
B) Meredith Kopit Levien
C) Margaret Sullivan
D) Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • 21. Who edits the financial newsletter DealBook?
A) Andrew Ross Sorkin
B) Nate Silver
C) David Leonhardt
D) Nate Cohn
  • 22. In what month and year did the publication of DealBook begin?
A) October 2001
B) March 2006
C) November 2010
D) September 2001
  • 23. Which political blog did The New York Times license in 2010?
A) The Athletic
B) FiveThirtyEight
C) DealBook
D) The Upshot
  • 24. To which company was FiveThirtyEight sold in July 2013?
A) ESPN
B) Fast Company
C) Vox
D) The New Republic
  • 25. Who was the public editor that wrote about Nate Silver's exit from the Times?
A) Andrew Ross Sorkin
B) Meredith Kopit Levien
C) Margaret Sullivan
D) Amanda Cox
  • 26. What is the name of the data-driven newsletter that debuted in April 2014?
A) The Athletic
B) The Upshot
C) DealBook
D) FiveThirtyEight
  • 27. Who was named the editor of The Upshot in January 2016?
A) David Leonhardt
B) Amanda Cox
C) Kevin Quealy
D) Nate Cohn
  • 28. Who was named the editor of The Upshot in June 2022?
A) Amanda Cox
B) Andrew Ross Sorkin
C) Nate Silver
D) Kevin Quealy
  • 29. What visual tool did The Upshot develop for presidential elections?
A) The dialect quiz
B) The calculator
C) The needle
D) The fourth down analyzer
  • 30. Who was the executive editor of The New York Times when nytimes.com was established?
A) Joseph Lelyveld
B) Dean Baquet
C) Bill Keller
D) Howell Raines
  • 31. Which scandal did The New York Times initially refuse to publish an article about from the Drudge Report?
A) Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal
B) Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct
C) Plame affair
D) Clinton–Lewinsky scandal
  • 32. Which security guard did The New York Times wrongfully name as a suspect in a bombing?
A) Miles Taylor
B) Jayson Blair
C) Richard Jewell
D) Scooter Libby
  • 33. How many articles did the print issue contain the day after the September 11 attacks?
A) Sixty-six
B) One hundred
C) Twenty-two
D) Thirty-six
  • 34. Who was the journalist that received a package containing a white powder during the 2001 anthrax attacks?
A) Megan Twohey
B) Jodi Kantor
C) Jill Abramson
D) Judith Miller
  • 35. What items were claimed to be purchased by Iraq in a 2002 article by Miller and Gordon?
A) Aluminum tubes
B) Missing explosives
C) Chemical agents
D) Weapons of mass destruction
  • 36. How many articles by Jayson Blair were discovered to be plagiarized?
A) One hundred
B) Sixty-six
C) Twelve
D) Thirty-six
  • 37. Who did Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. appoint as executive editor following the resignation of Raines and Boyd?
A) Bill Keller
B) Mark Thompson
C) Dean Baquet
D) A. G. Sulzberger
  • 38. From whom did The New York Times borrow $250 million during the economic downturn?
A) Harvey Weinstein
B) Donald Trump
C) Carlos Slim
D) Rupert Murdoch
  • 39. Who replaced Jill Abramson as executive editor?
A) Howell Raines
B) Mark Thompson
C) Bill Keller
D) Dean Baquet
  • 40. Who was the anonymous author of the 'Resistance' essay published by the Times in 2018?
A) Scooter Libby
B) Miles Taylor
C) Richard Jewell
D) Eliot Spitzer
  • 41. What was featured on the front page of the Times on May 23, 2020?
A) U.S. Deaths Near 100,000, An Incalculable Loss
B) A summary of the 2020 election results
C) An apology for past reporting errors
D) A photo of the COVID-19 virus
  • 42. Which company did The New York Times acquire in January 2022?
A) The Athletic
B) Dow Jones & Company
C) The Weinstein Company
D) The Wall Street Journal
  • 43. What did the Times eliminate in November 2017?
A) The sports section
B) The copy desk
C) The public editor position
D) The Sunday magazine
  • 44. In which city is The New York Times headquartered?
A) Chicago
B) Washington D.C.
C) New York City
D) Los Angeles
  • 45. In what year was The New York Times founded?
A) 1851
B) 1896
C) 1935
D) 1971
  • 46. Which family has chaired the New York Times Company since 1896?
A) The Nixon family
B) Ochs-Sulzberger
C) The Tweed family
D) The Sulzberger-Ochs family
  • 47. What is the common nickname for The New York Times?
A) The Manhattan Daily
B) The National Paper
C) The Gray Lady
D) The Ledger
  • 48. What was the original name of The New York Times?
A) The New York Herald
B) New-York Daily Times
C) The Daily News
D) The Manhattan Times
  • 49. Which politician was the subject of the paper's aggressive coverage in the 1870s?
A) Boss Tweed
B) Arthur Hays Sulzberger
C) Richard Nixon
D) Adolph Ochs
  • 50. In what year did the Times launch nytimes.com?
A) 2001
B) 1996
C) 1990
D) 1980
  • 51. What landmark 1971 Supreme Court case involved the publication of the Pentagon Papers?
A) New York Times Co. v. Nixon
B) New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
C) The Pentagon Papers Case
D) New York Times Co. v. United States
  • 52. What is the name of the popular podcast produced by The New York Times?
A) The Daily
B) Global Briefing
C) Manhattan News
D) The Times Report
  • 53. What percentage of The New York Times audience held at least a bachelor's degree in the 2025 study?
A) 35%
B) 45%
C) 56%
D) 62%
  • 54. How many times has The New York Times been awarded the Pulitzer Prize?
A) 50
B) 200
C) 135
D) 100
  • 55. Who gained a controlling interest in the company following the Panic of 1893?
A) Arthur Hays Sulzberger
B) A. G. Sulzberger
C) Boss Tweed
D) Adolph Ochs
  • 56. The New York Times is located in which specific area of Manhattan?
A) Upper West Side
B) Lower Manhattan
C) Wall Street
D) Midtown Manhattan
  • 57. Who provided half of the starting capital for the newspaper?
A) William M. Tweed
B) Henry Jarvis Raymond
C) George Jones
D) Edward B. Wesley
  • 58. In what year did Edward B. Wesley sell his interest in the paper?
A) 1893
B) 1860
C) 1871
D) 1851
  • 59. Which publisher praised The New York Times?
A) Horace Greeley
B) Charles Ransom Miller
C) Henry Jarvis Raymond
D) William M. Tweed
  • 60. Who inherited the newspaper from Henry Jarvis Raymond in 1869?
A) William M. Tweed
B) Edward B. Wesley
C) Charles Ransom Miller
D) George Jones
  • 61. What did The New York Times publish in 1871 regarding Tammany Hall?
A) Accounting books
B) A list of employee names
C) Personal letters
D) Private emails
  • 62. How many years was William M. Tweed sentenced to prison for in 1873?
A) Five years
B) Ten years
C) Fifteen years
D) Twelve years
  • 63. When did George Jones die?
A) 1869
B) 1891
C) 1873
D) 1893
  • 64. What change did Adolph Ochs make to the newspaper's name?
A) Changed the font
B) Added a hyphen
C) Changed the publication day
D) Removed the hyphen
  • 65. In what year did The New York Times open Times Tower?
A) 1905
B) 1944
C) 1896
D) 1935
  • 66. Who was the managing editor known for reporting on advances in science?
A) Carr Van Anda
B) Arthur Hays Sulzberger
C) Adolph Ochs
D) William L. Laurence
  • 67. Which scientist's then-obscure theory did the newspaper report on?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Nikola Tesla
C) Marie Curie
D) Isaac Newton
  • 68. What practice did Sulzberger encourage that Ochs had not?
A) Investigative journalism
B) International distribution
C) Wirephotography
D) Radio broadcasting
  • 69. Which station did The New York Times acquire in 1944?
A) WNYC
B) ABC
C) WQXR-FM
D) NBC
  • 70. Which journalist publicized the atomic bomb race between the U.S. and Germany?
A) Carr Van Anda
B) Arthur Hays Sulzberger
C) William L. Laurence
D) Adolph Ochs
  • 71. In which country was the Times Overseas Weekly available through Frankfurter Zeitung?
A) France
B) Germany
C) Japan
D) England
  • 72. What type of newspaper did Adolph Ochs establish the Times as?
A) A merchant's newspaper
B) A sports magazine
C) A government journal
D) A tabloid
  • 73. During which decade did the Times experience a political realignment?
A) 1910s
B) 1930s
C) 1900s
D) 1920s
  • 74. Which subcommittee investigated The New York Times for purported communism after WWII?
A) House Un-American Activities Committee
B) National Security Subcommittee
C) Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
D) Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • 75. Why did Arthur Hays Sulzberger face criticism from within and outside the Times?
A) He refused to publish advertisements for Martin Luther King Jr.
B) He supported the Watergate conspirators
C) He dismissed a copyreader who pleaded the Fifth Amendment
D) He sold the newspaper to a foreign entity
  • 76. Who succeeded Arthur Hays Sulzberger as publisher in 1961?
A) Orvil Dryfoos
B) Max Frankel
C) A. M. Rosenthal
D) Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
  • 77. What major event disrupted New York newspapers from December 1962 to March 1963?
A) A typographical union strike
B) A bankruptcy filing
C) A federal investigation
D) A major office fire
  • 78. When did The New York Times publish its first front-page article on the AIDS epidemic?
A) December 1985
B) January 1981
C) May 1983
D) March 1978
  • 79. Since what year has The New York Times been published by the Ochs-Sulzberger family?
A) 1896
B) 1935
C) 1869
D) 1961
  • 80. In what year were Marc Lacey and Carolyn Ryan appointed as managing editors?
A) 2022
B) 2020
C) 2018
D) 2023
  • 81. Which of these entities is owned by The New York Times Company?
A) The Wall Street Journal
B) The Boston Globe
C) Wirecutter
D) The Washington Post
  • 82. What percentage of Class B shares does the Ochs-Sulzberger family hold as of 2022?
A) 100%
B) 50%
C) 95%
D) 70%
  • 83. When was the dual-class stock structure of The New York Times Company first put into effect?
A) 1992
B) 2020
C) 1950s
D) 1896
  • 84. Which newspaper did The New York Times Company formerly own?
A) Serial Productions
B) Wirecutter
C) The Boston Globe
D) The Athletic
  • 85. What role did Meredith Kopit Levien hold before becoming CEO?
A) Publisher
B) Managing editor
C) Chief operating officer
D) Executive editor
  • 86. How many of the company's board of directors is the Ochs-Sulzberger family able to elect?
A) 95%
B) 70%
C) 50%
D) 30%
  • 87. Which of these is listed as a deputy managing editor?
A) Michael Slackman
B) Sam Sifton
C) Monica Drake
D) Matthew Ericson
  • 88. How many journalists did The New York Times employ as of March 2023?
A) 5,800
B) 2,500
C) 1,000
D) 1,700
  • 89. Which of the following are Times journalists prohibited from doing?
A) Running for public office
B) Using a research desk
C) Writing opinion columns
D) Citing anonymous sources
  • 90. What document provides guidelines regarding gifts and personal relationships for journalists?
A) Ethical Journalism
B) The New York Times Charter
C) Guidelines on Integrity
D) The Newsroom Manual
  • 91. What led the Times to establish a committee to avoid journalistic conflicts of interest in 2021?
A) A scandal regarding fake news
B) Pressure from the government
C) A disagreement between editors
D) David Brooks's undisclosed work for the Aspen Institute
  • 92. Who served as opinion editor from 1986 to 1993?
A) Max Frankel
B) Howell Raines
C) Andrew Rosenthal
D) Jack Rosenthal
  • 93. Who is the current opinion editor of The New York Times as of July 2024?
A) James Bennet
B) Kathleen Kingsbury
C) Patrick Healy
D) Gail Collins
  • 94. How many Democratic candidates has The New York Times endorsed in presidential elections?
A) 40
B) 32
C) 12
D) 20
  • 95. In what year did the editorial board issue an anti-endorsement against Donald Trump for the first time?
A) 2008
B) 2016
C) 2020
D) 2012
  • 96. What was the board's stance on women's suffrage in 1900 and 1914?
A) Opposed
B) Neutral
C) Supported
D) Silent
  • 97. During whose tenure did the editorial board begin to espouse progressive beliefs?
A) Charles Merz
B) John Bertram Oakes
C) Max Frankel
D) Rollo Ogden
  • 98. What change did the editorial board make regarding local or congressional endorsements in August 2024?
A) Increased frequency
B) Mandated public interviews
C) Stopped endorsing
D) Limited to New York state only
  • 99. Who was the deputy opinion editor as of July 2024?
A) Patrick Healy
B) Andrew Rosenthal
C) Kathleen Kingsbury
D) Gail Collins
  • 100. Since what year have workers at The New York Times been represented by the New York Times Guild?
A) 1978
B) 1940
C) 1942
D) 1981
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