It’s time for another edition of The First Time News Was Fit To Print, where we travel into the archives of The New York Times and find the first time the paper covered various subjects. If you have a suggestion for a future installment, leave a comment. Automated Teller Machines October 9, 19...

Every now and again, I head into the online archives of The New York Times and dig up the first time the paper covered various topics. Here are 16 first mentions worth mentioning (again), from Princess Di to Archie Bunker, U2 to YouTube. If you’ve got a topic you’d like to see here, leav...

It’s time for another edition of The First Time News Was Fit To Print, where we head into the archives of The New York Times and find the first time the paper covered a particular subject. If you have a suggestion for a future installment, leave a comment. Here’s what we dug up this week...

Every so often, we dig up the first time The New York Times covered various subjects. (Just in case you were curious.) This week’s installment looks at Venus & Serena Williams, U2, A-Rod and more—plus a few first mentions we’ve already mentioned, including John McCain, Barack Obam...

Let’s go back into the archives of The New York Times to find the first time the paper covered various topics. This edition features early critical disdain for Archie Bunker, the first story about Sirhan Sirhan and a few Tim Russert mentions. Archie Bunker January 12, 1971 Are Racism and Bigot...

1. Last week I was in a minor car accident. (Hold on to those gift baskets. I’m OK.) Afterwards, I pulled into a shopping center to take pictures of the damage. An elderly woman was parked beside me, watching suspiciously as I snapped away. When she got out of the car, I (unnecessarily) assure...

Every Monday, we travel into the archives of The New York Times to find the first time the paper covered various topics. This edition looks at Princess Diana, Yo-Yo Ma, Chuck Klosterman, Nelson Mandela, The Simpsons and more. Diana Spencer December 15, 1980 For ‘Hounding’ a Friend of Cha...

On Mondays, we usually venture into The New York Times archives to find the first time that newspaper covered various topics. But because Sports Illustrated just opened its content vault, we’re devoting this week’s installment to first mentions worth mentioning in SI. Mike Tyson January ...

Things are a little awkward at the New York Times lately. The 'McCain possibly maybe having an affair' story was a flop, they just lost all-star critic Kelefa Sanneh to the New Yorker and their foremost legal expert, Linda Greenhouse, is taking a buyout. But if the Spitzer story has taught us anythi...

Every Monday, we venture into the archives of The New York Times to find the first time the paper covered various topics. This week, in a moment of weakness/laziness, we’re re-running eight first mentions from our own archives. If you have a suggestion for next week, leave us a comment. Lee Ha...