Editing The New York Times (section)

==Controversies==
{{Main|List of The New York Times controversies{{!}}List of ''The New York Times'' controversies}}
===Israeli–Palestinian conflict===
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''The New York Times'' has received criticism for its coverage of the [[Gaza war]],{{Sfn|Folkenflik|2024}} and the paper has been accused of holding both an anti-Palestinian{{Sfn|Johnson|Ali|2024}} and an anti-Israeli{{Sfn|Alterman|2023}} bias. In April 2024, ''[[The Intercept]]'' reported that an internal memorandum from November 2023 instructed journalists to reduce using the terms "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" and to avoid using the phrase "occupied territory" in the context of Palestinian land, "Palestine" except in rare circumstances, and the term "refugee camps" to describe areas of Gaza despite recognition from the [[United Nations]]. A spokesperson from the ''Times'' stated that issuing guidance was standard practice. An analysis by ''The Intercept'' noted that ''The New York Times'' described Israeli deaths as a massacre nearly sixty times, but had only described Palestinian deaths as a massacre once.{{Sfn|Scahill|Grim|2024}}

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In December 2023, ''The New York Times'' published an investigation titled "[[Screams Without Words|'Screams Without Words': How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7]]", alleging that [[Hamas]] weaponized [[Sexual and gender-based violence in the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel|sexual and gender-based violence]] during its [[2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel|armed incursion on Israel]].{{Sfn|Al Jazeera|2023}} The investigation was the subject of an article from ''The Intercept'' questioning the journalistic acumen of [[Anat Schwartz]], a filmmaker involved in the inquiry who had no prior reporting experience and agreed with a post stating Israel should "violate any norm, on the way to victory", doubting the veracity of the opening claim that Gal Abdush was raped in a timespan disputed by her family, and alleging that the ''Times'' was pressured by the [[Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America]].{{Sfn|Scahill|Grim|Boguslaw|2024}} ''The New York Times'' initiated an inquiry that received criticism from [[NewsGuild-CWA|NewsGuild]] of New York president Susan DeCarava for purported racial targeting;{{Sfn|Wagner|2024a}} the ''Times''{{'}}s investigation concluded in ambiguity, but found that journalistic material was handled improperly.{{Sfn|Bruell|2024}}

Critics, protesters, and journalists have charged that the newspaper's biased reporting in favor of Israel during the [[Gaza war]] amounts to complicity in and manufacturing consent for the [[Gaza genocide]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Sommer |first1=Will |last2=Nover |first2=Scott |last3=Vinall |first3=Frances |last4=Barr |first4=Jeremy |date=2023-11-17 |title=After Pulitzer win, N.Y. Times contributor criticizes Gaza coverage |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/11/17/mona-chalabi-gaza-criticize-new-york-times-pulitzer/ |access-date=2025-05-27 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BREAKING: Protest Outside NYT for Its Role in Manufacturing Consent for Genocide |url=https://www.codepink.org/nytprotestandletterdel |access-date=2025-05-27 |website=CODEPINK - Women for Peace |language=en}}</ref> An April 2024 internal memo by Susan Wessling and [[Philip Pan]] restricted journalists covering the Gaza war from using the words "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" in their reporting.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Grim |first=Jeremy Scahill, Ryan |date=2024-04-15 |title=Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words "Genocide," "Ethnic Cleansing," and "Occupied Territory" |url=https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/ |access-date=2025-05-27 |website=The Intercept |language=en-US}}</ref> Writer and editors have left the newspaper due to its coverage of events in Gaza.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Monteil |first=Abby |date=2023-11-17 |title=Three LGBTQ+ Writers and Editors Have Left the 'New York Times' Over Its Coverage of Gaza |url=https://www.them.us/story/lgbtq-writers-editors-resigned-new-york-times-over-gaza-coverage |access-date=2025-05-27 |website=Them |language=en-US}}</ref>

===Transgender people===
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''The New York Times'' has received criticism regarding its coverage of [[transgender]] people. When it published an opinion piece by [[Weill Cornell Medicine]] professor [[Richard A. Friedman]] called "How Changeable Is Gender?" in August 2015,{{Sfn|The New York Times|2015c}} ''[[Vox (website)|Vox]]''{{'}}s German Lopez criticized Friedman as suggesting that parents and doctors might be right in letting children suffer from severe dysphoria in case something changes down the line, and as implying that conversion therapy may work for transgender children.{{Sfn|Lopez|2015}} In February 2023, nearly one thousand{{Sfn|Oladipo|2023}} current and former ''Times'' writers and contributors wrote an open letter addressed to standards editor Philip B. Corbett, criticizing the paper's coverage of transgender, [[Non-binary gender|non⁠-⁠binary]], and [[gender-nonconforming]] people; some of the ''Times''' articles have been cited in state legislatures attempting to justify criminalizing gender-affirming care.{{Sfn|Klein|2023a}} Contributors wrote in the open letter that "the ''Times'' has in recent years treated [[gender variance|gender diversity]] with an eerily familiar mix of [[pseudoscience]] and euphemistic, charged language, while publishing reporting on [[transgender youth|trans children]] that omits relevant information about its sources."{{Efn|Attributed to multiple references: {{Sfn|Migdon|2023}}{{Sfn|Yurcaba|2023}}{{Sfn|Kalish|2023}}{{Sfn|Yang|2023}}}}