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Several readers have written in this week saying they’re having a hard time squaring The Times’s own past reports of wiretapping with the paper’s assertions that there is no firm evidence that any warrants for wiretaps have been issued. Readers also expressed confusion with The Times’s assertion that it would be illegal for a White House to receive information about such investigations, when its own wiretapping story in January said the Trump White House was given some information from intercepted communications. “For months now the NY Times and many other mainstream news sources has been running stories based on anonymous...

On the evening of July 17, The New York Times announced plans to cut the width of its pages by one and a half inches, or 11 percent. On July 18, New York Times stock dropped from 23.18 cents a share to 22.67 cents--a decline of 2.2 percent. In joint memos announcing the page shrinkage, executive editor Bill Keller and Times president Scott Heekin-Canedy both described the smaller format as “reader-friendly.” Mr. Keller also described it as the emerging “industry norm,” which was true: Whatever readers may or may not think of the floppy (or generous) old broadsheet size, the...

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