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Understanding The Times

In an effort to shed more light on how we work, The Times is running a series of short posts explaining some of our journalistic practices.

In an effort to shed more light on how we work, The Times is running a series of short posts explaining some of our journalistic practices.

Highlights

  3. PhotoMourners at a memorial in Boulder, Colo., for the victims of the mass shooting there.
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    Times Insider

    How The Times Covers Mass Shootings

    Marc Lacey, an editor who manages live news coverage, shares the organization’s approach in handling extremely sensitive information.

    By Sarah Bahr

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    CreditTyler Comrie

    Understanding The Times

    What Is an Editorial Board?

    At The New York Times, it’s an institutional voice, but not the voice of the institution as a whole.

    By James Bennet

  1. Times Insider

    How Poetry Shakes Up the National Desk’s Morning Meetings

    A good poem can jolt our minds into thinking about the country’s most important stories in unexpected ways, our National editor writes.

    By Marc Lacey

  2. Understanding The Times

    No Politics Till the 7th Date? How Journalists Try to Stay Impartial

    Times reporters and editors take careful measures in their personal lives to remain objective in their work.

    By Caryn A. Wilson and Lara Takenaga

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    How and Why Our Editorial Board Endorses Political Candidates

    Our deputy editorial page editor explains the endorsement process and introduces an experiment to make it more open.

    By Lara Takenaga

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    Making the Front Page: How All the News Fits in Print

    Today’s A1 is the result of a far more democratic and organic process than the one in place when I arrived at The Times in 1978.

    By Suzanne Daley

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    How The Times Uses FOIA to Obtain Information the Public Has a Right to Know

    Our lawyer provides an update on why we’re still filing so many Freedom of Information Act lawsuits.

    By David McCraw

  6. Understanding The Times

    How We Fact-Check in an Age of Misinformation

    On the eve of another round of presidential debates, it’s not just the candidates and the incumbent that The Times is scrutinizing.

    By Richard W. Stevenson

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    How The Times Decides What to Investigate

    Rebecca Corbett and Dean Murphy, who lead our investigations team, answer questions about how they decide which projects to pursue, where they get tips and whether their jobs are as thrilling as the movies make them out to be.

    By Katie Van Syckle

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    How to Make a Times Crossword Puzzle

    The New York Times crossword editors reveal their process for evaluating and editing a puzzle submission.

    By Will Shortz and Joel Fagliano

  9. Understanding The Times

    Why We Cover High Fashion

    The Times’s fashion director and chief fashion critic reflects on what makes haute couture relevant.

    By Vanessa Friedman

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    A Times Arts Critic Reviews His Own Role

    How we call the hits — and limit our misses — on the culture beat.

    By A.O. Scott