The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

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Media

The New York Times

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • INF-1.3: Proxy statements filed from January to September 2026 list at least one of Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street as holding more than 5 percent of the common stock of each of 17 companies: eight media, five pharmaceutical and four defense. The listed stakes run from 5.1 to 14.9 percent, and 14 of the 17 proxies cite at least one Schedule 13G filed between January and April 2024, so the percentages describe holdings on dates from 31 December 2023 to 30 June 2026.
  • INF-1.5: In the latest annual reports reviewed, advertising supplied 20.0 percent of New York Times revenue (2025), 43.0 percent of Nexstar revenue (2025) and 58.5 percent of Fox's Television segment revenue (fiscal 2026). Distribution or affiliate fees exceeded advertising at Nexstar (55.3 percent against 43.0), Warner Bros. Discovery (51.6 percent against 19.6) and Disney's Linear Networks segment (67.8 percent against 30.5).
  • INF-1.16: The filings reviewed do not state how much of each outlet's advertising revenue comes from pharmaceutical advertisers, and no document read shows whether coverage by the stations Nexstar and TEGNA operate changed after the March 2026 waiver. The court order requires Nexstar to hold TEGNA separate and not to influence its management, including newsroom personnel and programming, pending final judgment.
  • DEF-2.2: Hanyok found that "The withheld information constituted nearly 90 percent of all available SIGINT" and that "only SIGINT that supported the claim that the communists had attacked the two destroyers was given to administration officials."
  • DEF-2.3: The Defense Department's Vietnam study, commissioned by Secretary McNamara in 1967 and presented to Secretary Clifford on 15 January 1969, reached the press in June 1971. On 30 June 1971 the Supreme Court held that the government had not met its burden of justifying a prior restraint on publication, and in 2011 the National Archives released the complete report, of which about 34 percent had never been available.
  • POL-3.16: WinRed's published account states that ActBlue pioneered recurring and pre-checked boxes and that pre-checked boxes appeared on ActBlue pages for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. One press account reports that ActBlue began phasing them out in July 2021.
  • DEF-5.10: The New York Times reported in December 2021 that, among 1,311 CENTCOM civilian-casualty assessments it obtained, investigators visited the strike site in one and interviewed witnesses or survivors in two.
  • POL-6.11: The New York Times reported on 6 September 2014 that at least 64 foreign governments, state-controlled entities or officials had contributed to 28 major U.S. research organizations since 2011, at least $92 million according to institutional disclosures, government documents and foreign lobbying reports. The Times reported that the organizations did not disclose the terms of their agreements and had not registered under FARA. Brookings and the Atlantic Council told the Times that their scholars are independent.
  • POL-7.6: The Pentagon's retired military analyst outreach ran from 2002 to February 2008. The Department of Defense Inspector General reported in 2011 that it complied with relevant DOD policies, that "a preponderance of evidence indicates that one RMA stopped receiving invitations because he was a critic," and that 43 of the analysts had defense contractor affiliations.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 272 18 December 2021. The New York Times (Azmat Khan): Hidden Pentagon Records Reveal Patterns of Failure in Deadly Airstrikes (The Civilian Casualty Files)
  • Exhibit 273 13 June 2018. U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (plaintiff Azmat Khan): Complaint, Khan v. U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Central Command, No. 1:18-cv-05334 (S.D.N.Y.)
  • Exhibit 378 31 October 2005. New York Times (Scott Shane), via History News Network: Vietnam Study, Casting Doubts, Remains Secret (excerpt)
  • Exhibit 382 30 June 1971. U.S. Supreme Court (per curiam): New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713
  • Exhibit 739 3 April 2021. The New York Times (Shane Goldmacher): How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations
  • Exhibit 846 6 September 2014 (web date 7 September). Eric Lipton, Brooke Williams and Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times: Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks
  • Exhibit 857 20 April 2008. The New York Times: Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand (David Barstow), New York Times, p. A1
  • Exhibit 864 8 May 2016. The New York Times Magazine: The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama's Foreign-Policy Guru (David Samuels), New York Times Magazine
  • Exhibit 962 13 March 2026. The New York Times Company: The New York Times Company definitive proxy statement (DEF 14A), security ownership table
  • Exhibit 981 27 February 2026. The New York Times Company: The New York Times Company annual report (Form 10-K), revenue by source