What Would You Like to Ask Your 40-Year-Old Self?
If you could go decades ahead in time and ask your 40-year-old self some questions, what would you ask? Why? Be as specific as you can. What questions would you have about how your life turned out? About the lives of loved ones? About local, national and world events? Inventions? Arts and culture?We pose this…
Teaching With The New York Times: A Virtual Summit
Journalism helps us navigate a complex world, shines a light on the truth, and provides analysis, insight and context to the most pressing issues of our day. In this summit for educators and librarians, The New York Times Education and Library Subscription Program brings you a series of discussions featuring Times journalists, leaders in education,…
On a Vital Team of Editors, 2 Interns Learn Valuable Lessons
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.The first questions we were asked as interns at The New York Times were usually: “What do you do there? Where can I see your work?”Well, that’s a bit tricky because we worked on the Flex…
Experts on Deaf Culture Help Times Explain Name Signing
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.How does a person get a name sign — the series of unique gestures used to identify someone in American Sign Language? For a team of Times journalists, the process of answering that question underscored the…
As Professors, New York Times Staff Members Teach, and Learn
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.In 2017, after spending more than 13 years covering Iraq and China for The New York Times, Edward Wong returned to the United States and began teaching international reporting at Princeton University.When he wasn’t filing articles…
Journalist Moms on Their Parenting Super Powers
Never missing a beatMy super power is teaching my baby to get into the groove. The latest adorable video clip of my 10-month-old that’s making the rounds among friends and family shows her rocking out to the cartoonish ’80s hit “Walk the Dinosaur” by the band Was (Not Was). Though she can’t yet walk, the…
How Four Years Shaped Girls’ Political Views
Despite those findings, the young women I interviewed all had high aspirations — they wanted to become a novelist, an animal scientist and a basketball player. One, Ana Shepherd, 18, had decided to pursue politics as a direct result of what she saw the last four years. She was born in Mexico and felt she…
Artist’s Illustrations Help Explain Climate Change to Kids
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.Climate change can be an unsettling subject for anyone, but it can be downright frightening for children. To explain the topic to young people, The New York Times’s Climate desk published a guide, “Bad Future, Better…
Learn 10 Commonly Confused Words With TikTok and The Times
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1.Many of us, whether at school or in the workplace, puzzle over how to use commonly confused words like affect and effect, farther and further, and capitol and capital.We were excited to discover that Claudine James, an English…
We Asked Teens What Life Was Like in a Pandemic. They Had a Lot...
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.Last fall, when The New York Times Learning Network invited teenagers across the United States to tell us what living in a pandemic was like, we didn’t expect so many answers — nor did we expect…
