Times at 175: Sulzberger Reflects on America's Story Through 15M First Drafts

For 175 years, a single institution has stood at the edge of American life and written down what it saw — wars, elections, reckonings, and reinventions — accumulating roughly 15 million articles that together form something close to the nation's memory. This week, New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger marked that anniversary not with celebration but with recommitment, framing the newspaper's long history less as an achievement than as an ongoing obligation. In a media landscape fractured by distrust, economic pressure, and algorithmic noise, his message was quietly insistent: the need for i