The New York Times

==Awards and recognition==
===Awards===
{{Main|List of awards won by The New York Times{{!}}List of awards won by ''The New York Times''|List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times{{!}}List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to ''The New York Times''}}
As of 2023, ''The New York Times'' has [[List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times|received]] 137 [[Pulitzer Prize]]s,{{Sfn|Ax|2023}} the most of any publication.{{Sfn|Folkenflik|2022a}}

===Recognition===
''The New York Times'' is considered a [[newspaper of record]] in the United States.{{Efn|Attributed to multiple references: {{Sfn|Martin|Hansen|1998|p=7}}{{Sfn|Schwarz|2012|p=29}}{{Sfn|Sterling|2009|p=1020}}}} The ''Times'' is the largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States;{{Sfn|Communications and Digital Committee|2008|p=123}} as of 2022, ''The New York Times'' is the [[List of newspapers in the United States|second-largest newspaper by print circulation]] in the United States behind ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''.{{Sfn|de Visé|2022}}

A study published in ''[[Science, Technology, & Human Values]]'' in 2013 found that ''The New York Times'' received more citations in academic journals than the ''[[American Sociological Review]]'', ''[[Research Policy (journal)|Research Policy]]'', or the ''[[Harvard Law Review]]''.{{Sfn|Hicks|Wang|2013}} With sixteen million unique records, the ''Times'' is the third-most referenced source in [[Common Crawl]], a collection of online material used in datasets such as [[GPT-3]], behind [[Wikipedia]] and a United States patent database.{{Sfn|Timmer|2023}}

''[[The New Yorker]]''{{'}}s Max Norman wrote in March 2023 that the ''Times'' has shaped mainstream English usage.{{Sfn|Norman|2023}} <!-- Delete? --> In a January 2018 article for ''[[The Washington Post]]'', [[Margaret Sullivan (journalist)|Margaret Sullivan]] stated that ''The New York Times'' affects the "whole media and political ecosystem".{{Sfn|Sullivan|2018}}

''The New York Times''{{'}}s nascent success has led to concerns over media consolidation, particularly amid the [[decline of newspapers]]. In 2006, economists Lisa George and [[Joel Waldfogel]] examined the consequences of the ''Times''{{'}}s national distribution strategy and audience with circulation of local newspapers, finding that local circulation decreased among college-educated readers.{{Sfn|George|Waldfogel|2006|p=446}} The effect of ''The New York Times'' in this manner was observed in ''[[The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead]]'', the newspaper of record for [[Fargo, North Dakota]].{{Sfn|George|Waldfogel|2006|p=435}} ''[[Axios (website)|Axios]]'' founder [[Jim VandeHei]] opined that the ''Times'' is "going to basically be a monopoly" in an opinion piece written by then-media columnist and former ''[[BuzzFeed News]]'' editor-in-chief [[Ben Smith (journalist)|Ben Smith]]; in the article, Smith argued that the strength of ''The New York Times''{{'}}s journalistic workforce, broadening content, and the expropriation of ''[[Gawker]]'' editor-in-chief [[Choire Sicha]], ''[[Recode]]'' editor-in-chief [[Kara Swisher]], and ''[[Quartz (publication)|Quartz]]'' editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney. Smith compared the ''Times'' to the [[New York Yankees]] during their [[1927 New York Yankees season|1927 season]] containing [[Murderers' Row]].{{Sfn|Smith|2020a}}