The New York Times
Few family institutions have endured for more than a century and maintained themselves at as high a level of quality as has the New York Times. While other newspapers were wallowing in the muck of the day's news in order to gain an audience, the Times was establishing high standards for journalism and creating for itself an audience of movers and shakers in governments all over the globe. If people wanted to know what their leaders were thinking, they turned to the New York Times.
When Adolph Ochs purchased the New-York Daily Times (as it was originally named when founded in 1851) on August 13, 1896, he promised to produce a newspaper without fear or favor, a newspaper of record, one that published, as the motto on page one has said since February 10, 1897, "All the News That's Fit to Print." So while the Times leads all newspapers with more than sixty-five Pulitzer prizes, it entered the 21st century still owned by the descendants of Adolph Ochs, which is one of the reasons it has maintained itself so well. The Times won its first Pulitzer prize in 1918 for public service. The Pulitzer records say that the Times won the award "for its public service in publishing in full so many official reports, documents and speeches by European statesmen relating to the progress and conduct of the war." Fifty-four years later the Times would win another Pulitzer prize for publishing, in effect, official reports and documents relating to a war, but that Pulitzer would be for the publication of the "Pentagon Papers" and the Times had to go to the Supreme Court to maintain its right to publish.
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