WI NYT never becomes "Paper of Record"?

Errr... Say what?

AFAIK, a 'paper of record' is ANY significant paper in the area. So, if you're trying to post notices re: debts, whatever, it depends on where you (or the target person) lives, so a city paper for that city, something like the NYT for national coverage (possibly US Today, hack ptui), .... I don't think most jurisdictions HAVE a formal list of 'papers of record'.

So, I don't really think I understand the question.
 
What I mean is becoming the "national" American newspaper. Somewhat analogous to the Globe in Canada for many years.
 
On the one hand, it would be pretty easy to do this by having another New York City paper (the Post?) beat out the Times and become the major New York paper of record. But once that happens, that paper will wind up in pretty much the same role as the OTL Times. The New York City media market--by virtue of NYC being America's largest and richest city since 1790 or so--pretty much guarantees that whatever paper winds up dominating it will be rich enough to expand into a national/international paper of record. Unless you somehow make New York less important (which would result in Godzilla sized butterflies stomping around a TL), New York is going to support one (or perhaps even a few) major papers of record. I'm not really sure how you can change that.
 
I could see the New York Herald-Tribune - which, for much of the first of the 20th Century, was the NYT's main rival - outliving the Times and becoming the paper of record.
 
I could see the New York Herald-Tribune - which, for much of the first of the 20th Century, was the NYT's main rival - outliving the Times and becoming the paper of record.

The New York Sun is also a candidate to be the major paper of empire city.

Another thing worth considering is that many of the great papers of the nineteenth century merged in the twentieth--The Herald merged with the Sun, was demerged and then joined with the Tribune.

Perhaps the Times joins with one these other publications?
 
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