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