The Paper's Papers: A Reporter's Journeys Through the Archives of The New York Times

by Richard F. Shepard

In August of 1896, an ambitious publisher from Chattanooga, Adolph Ochs, bought the almost bankrupt New York Times. Shepard, who has been there for half of those hundred years, draws on rarely-seen material from The Times's vast private archive to show how Adolph Ochs and his successors built the country's greatest paper. Illustrations.

373 pages, Hardcover

First published May 28, 1996

Reviews

[Gwen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was an interesting look into how The New York Times operated through several decades...from its beginnings to about the 1990s. The author writes of his personal experience at the paper and of the documents that are in the paper’s archive. Not all the topics interested me though and I did skip a few chapters whose topics weren’t up my alley. Also, there were often details about exchanges between folks at the paper that seemed unnecessary/dull. Anyway...overall an well written book.