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FROM THE NEWSPAPER AGE TO THE INFORMATION AGE

The Times celebrates its 150th birthday with articles and reminiscences by Michael Chabon, David Halberstam, Anna Quindlen, Frank Rich, and others.
Illustration by Kevin O'Callaghan; photograph by MYKO Photography
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The First Issue: Imagining
How a Paper Was Born By MICHAEL CHABON
On the 18th of September, Henry Raymond stood at a window on the uppermost story of the capital of his unborn empire.

The News Today: Reality, in One Hard Slap By FRANK RICH
The attack on America revealed that most news organizations, for all their 'expansion' of coverage in the 90's, were caught napping.



THEN TO NOW
150 and Counting: The Story So Far 150 and Counting: The Story So Far
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
The Times, constantly redefined and reinvented, is very different nowadays, and at the same time much the same.

A HORROR UNEXAMINED
Turning Away From the Holocaust
By MAX FRANKEL
Although editors knew of Hitler's extermination of the Jews, they mostly hid the story on the inside pages.

THE ARTS
Fool or Prophet? No, Just a Critic Fool or Prophet? No, Just a Critic
By BEN BRANTLEY
The arbiters of culture have observed the passing parade, then weighed in on deadline.

RIGHTS
Some Struggles Never Seem to End
By ANNA QUINDLEN
In the battle for equal rights, banner headlines tell part of the story. But a clearer picture can sometimes be seen years later, between the lines.

PHOTOGRAPHY
Beyond the Assignment, the Image Can Rise to Art Beyond the Assignment, the Image Can Rise to Art
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
In photojournalism, the balance isn't easily tipped from information to art.

ONE MEMORABLE YEAR
1951: Big Stories and the Cry of 'Copy!'
By NICHOLSON BAKER
Fifty years ago, when The Times was 100, reporters hammered out accounts of events that would shake the rest of the century.



If It's So Light, Why Is It So Serious?

Where the Gray Lady Got Its Steel

When Newspapers Were Newsmakers

Investigative Reporting Was Young Then

Beyond (and Behind) the Stock Tables

Department of Conscience: The Editorial 'We'

Six Buildings That Share One Story

Sports and The Times: At Last, a Full Embrace

So Here's What's Happening to Language

Banner Headlines and Comic Strips

The Reporter's Reporter



Audio interviews with Times writers, slide shows, and a video tour of New York, circa 1851.
Video: New York, Circa 1851, with David Dunlap
Video: Michael Kimmelman on Photojournalism as Art
Audio: Frank Rich on the Future of Journalism
Audio: Max Frankel on The Times and the Holocaust
Audio: Robert Lipsyte on The Times and Sports
Slide Show: Times Headlines Through History
Slide Show: Styles | Shapes That Lift the Spirit



On This Anniversary: Who We Are
By HOWELL RAINES
We offer this issue as a symbol of the continuity of our home city and our nation and as a token of the continuity of this newspaper.



First Person
Seven Times correspondents describe events sad and terrible, from Gettysburg to the atomic bomb.



The Addiction Begins
Try your hand at The Times's first daily crossword puzzle, from Sept., 1950.



A Gallery of Hirschfelds
Al Hirschfeld's enchanting images through the years, from Clark Gable to Cher.



The Facts That Got Away
To err is . . . you know. Excerpts from some of the corrections The Times has run over the years.



Then and Now
Take a tour with The Times's David Dunlap of the sights that Henry Raymond, the original Times publisher, might remember if he visited New York today.








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