February 10
FIT NEWS DAY
How did the newspaper that holds a top-ranking position in journalism get to such enviable heights? The publishers, editors and writers obviously believed in its slogan. “All the news that’s fit to print” has appeared on the front page of The New York Times since this day in 1897. Henry J. Raymond and two associates started The New York Times in 1851. It began as a penny paper ... one cent for news vs. the six-cent political rags of the day. In October of 1896, the paper held a contest offering readers a one-hundred-dollar prize if they could come up with a better slogan ... in ten words or less ... than “All the news that’s fit to print.” No one did.
And no one has, since. As of late 2025, the Times had 12.3 million subscribers, with 11.3 million of those digital-only readers -- and 580,000 actually getting a printed copy of the paper.
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