Overall magazine newsstand sales in the U.S. and Canada fell 12.3% to 373.2 million single copies in 2016, bringing in $2.1 billion of sales revenue, with the latter figure down 6.9% from the year before.

The 'NYT' introduced a major redesign of the print edition's A2 and A3 pages, which will now give readers a broader overview of the newspaper's offerings, both in print and online. This redesign is a step toward creating what executive editor Dean Baquet calls "a print newspaper for a digital era."

It will help support its mission of producing investigative journalism in the public interest - and hopefully counter the spread of "fake news" on social media. ProPublica argues that a new business model is needed to support investigative journalism, which many for-profit news organizations now view as an unaffordable luxury