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The first issue of what became The New York Times was published on September 18, 1851, under the title The New‑York Daily Times. This date is widely cited in historical records and encyclopedic sources.[1][3]

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The first ever issue of the New York Times is published, it was started by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones

On September 18 th 1851, the first ever issue of the New York Times was published; it was started by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones. When they first started up the newspaper, it was first called the New York Daily Times, but 6 years after the first published newspaper it was changed to just the New York Times. Raymond and Jones had planned for the newspaper to be a balance of views, not either too conservative or too liberal, because everything needs a balance; nothing should really be...

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The birth of the New York Times, 166 years ago today

First issue of the New-York Daily Times, later the New York Times, on Sept. 18 1851. 113 Nassau St. Illustration from “Henry J Raymond and the New York Press for Thirty Years” by A.S. Hale and Company On September 18th, 1851, an editorial appeared in a new New York newspaper that began as follows: “We publish today the first number of the

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