The New York Times (NY Times) is an American daily newspaper founded in 1851 which is based in New York and has a worldwide readership (nytimes.com). I have been receiving the morning briefings of NY Times since a couple of years thanks to the relevant person in charge who sent me an approval link. I usually turn back such offers but somehow -probably due to my interest in global matters- years ago, I took action to receive e-mail newsletters from NY Times which I think was an influential step in the sense that it brought more awareness and global touch to my daily life.
I receive the morning briefings of NY Times everyday Monday through Friday. It is a very qualified way of starting a day: Getting news from all over the world and reading about the latest developments in world economy, politics and social life from a global reliable source. It has been a habit for me over a couple years to read these briefings and I become happy when I see ‘The New York Times’ in my inbox at my mobile phone every morning. Even if I might not sometimes have time to check these mails early in the morning due to some distractions or a busy schedule, I definitely check them later during the day or the following days. I open these briefings wondering what is happening in which part of the world and what side issues are covered.
I find these morning briefing very pleasant since besides a very good and organized collection of world news; they include parts like cooking and nice recipes, interviews, a valuable reading part regarding a global issue or trend, movie or book reviews, free time activity suggestions, back stories and many more different topics. I especially like the photosused in NY Times briefings for they are so good that they speak for themselves and I take screenshots to keep the ones I find interesting. As such, I thought that I can check those photos in my photo album for a visual summary of the unforgettable year 2020.
Year 2020 Through The Photos of ‘The New York Times’with Info (Comments of NY Times) as Seen in My Screenshots:
Photo on left: ”Firefighters in Australia. Australia deploys military as fires spread.” – January 2020 Photo on right: ”Wuhan, China: A worker walking in a convention center that was converted into a temporary hospital to treat people with the coronavirus. (Chinatopix, via Associated Press)” – February 4, 2020
”Wearing protective masks and suits at the Venice Carnival on Sunday. The final two days of the event have been canceled because of the coronavirus. (Manuel Silvestri/Reuters)” – February 24, 2020
”A bombshell Instagram announcement by Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, caught the world by surprise. The announcement said they planned to ‘step back’ from their official duties and it caught Buckingham Palace off guard.” (January 10, 2020). Photo on right: ”The couple arriving in Westminster Abbey in London. The couple agreed not to use their most exclusive titles, His Royal Highness and Her Royal Highness. Harry remains a prince, sixth in line to the throne, and he and Meghan retained another of their titles: the duke and duchess of Sussex. But they also agreed to strip the word royal from their website and Instagram account. The couple made their final engagement for the annual Commonwealth Day, and will now head to Canada to patch together a new life and build their brand.” (March 10, 2020).
”Red Square in Moscow. For now, the isolation measures in the city appear not to have alarmed the public. (Sergey Ponomarev for NY Times)” – March 31,2020
”The lights are still on in Times Square, but almost no one is there to see them. New York City, a place where strangers’ lives interwine in fantastic and and untidy ways, has been forced into solitude by social distancing. (Bryan Derballa for NY Times)” – March 31, 2020
”Ambulances leaving a New York hospital as the virus continues to bring daily life to a halt. (Johnny Milano for NY Times)” – April 1, 2020
Photo on left: ”The police made people leave a London park last week. How far should coronavirus policing go? (Andrew Testa for NY Times)” – April 3, 2020 Photo on right: ”St. Thomas’ Hospital in London, where Prime Minister Boris Johnson is being treated. The British prime minister’s move out of intensive care unit offered a ray of hope for a country that faced a longer lockdown … . (Andrew Testa for The New York Times)” – April 10, 2020
Photo on left: ”An empty Times Square in New York. (Joshua Bright for The New York Times)” – April 7, 2020 Photo on right: ”A deserted Galleria Vittorio Emanuele IIin Milan, Italy, last week. Europe weighs public health and economy. (Alessandro Grassani for NY Times)” – April 9, 2020
Photo on left: ”A couple distribute homemade meals to the homeless in Naples, Italy. Italy’s south: ‘We will be ruined’. (Gianni Cipriano for NY Times)” – April 22, 2020 Photo on right: ”A store in Sceaux, France, where local government orders have been at odds with those of the central government. Pandemic shakes France’s faith in a cornerstone. Local governments in France are challenging the primacy of the centralized state. (Andrea Mantovani for NY Times)” – April 30, 2020
Photo on left: ”In Sydney, Magic Hour keeps loneliness at bay. After hours of quiet as most people work from home, the time before dusk brings bursts of human noise. (Matthew Abbott for NY Times)” – May 5,2020 Photo on right: ”After decades of slow action on climate change, pollution and carbon emission levels are dropping everywhere – leaving bluer skies and visible mountains. With the global paralysis induced by the coronavirus, even Venice‘s famously murky canals are running clear. (Manuel Silvestri/Reuters)” – May 12, 2020
”Shanghai Disneyland, which reopened on Monday. It is among the places around the world that are starting to welcome people again, although masks are required and fewer visitors are allowed in. (Hu Chengwei/Getty Images)” – May 12, 2020
Photo on left: ”Last year’s candlelight vigil in Hong Kong for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing. (Isaac Lawrence/Agence France-Presse-Getty Images)” – June 2, 2020 Photo on right: ”A vigil in Victoria Park in Hong Kong. Defying a police ban, people held lit candles and played songs for the 31st anniversary of the democracy movement in China. (Lam Yik Fei for NY Times)” – June 7, 2020
Photo on left: ”Paris reconnects with a simple pleasure: cafes. (Bertrand Guay/Agence France-Presse-Getty Images)” – June 3, 2020 Photo on right: ”Vilnius, Lithuania, in May. The Baltic countries have created a ‘travel bubble‘. (Mindaugas Kulbis/Associated Press). Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania dropped restrictions for one another on May 15, while keeping out everyone else; Australia and New Zealand are following their path. Denmark and Norway are opening to each other on June 15, but not to Sweden, which had a looser lockdown.” – June 7, 2020
”Life is slowly returning to the streets of Berlin. (Emile Ducke for NY Times)” – June 7, 2020
”Portugal is one of the few European countries allowing flights from the United States without a quarantine requirement. (Daniel Rodrigues for NY Times)” – June 8, 2020
Photo on left: ”Memory is vanishing. An older couple out for a stroll in Rome last month. (Alessandra Benedetti/Corbis, via Getty Images). The coronavirus, so lethal to the old, has accelerated the loss of a generation’s historical memories, which saw conflicts that turned Europe into a killing field.” – June 8, 2020 Photo on right: ”A barbershop in Rajkot in Gujarat, a state in western India. (Michael Benanav for NY Times) From the series ‘The World Through a Lens’ comes a collection of portraits from Gujarat, a place that defies easy generalizations, says the photographer Michael Benanav.” – June 16, 2020
Photo on left: ”Waiting for buses in Christchurch, New Zealand. (Mark Baker/Associated Press). New Zealand says it has eliminated the coronavirus.” – June 10, 2020 Photo on right: ”A street in Beijing last week as the city comes back to life. (Wu Hong/EPA, via Shutterstock). Global downturn could be worst since World War II.” – June 10, 2020
Photo on left: ”Profiteers raze the Amazon as the virus rages. Burning forest to clear the land for cattle last year in the state of Mato Grasso, Brazil. (Victor Moriyama for NY Times). Illegal loggers, miners and land grabbers have cleared vast areas of the Amazon in recent months as the pandemic has hobbled law enforcement efforts in Brazil, which is now reporting the highest daily number of coronavirus deaths in the world.” – June 8, 2020 Photo on right: ”Daunt Books in London (Tom Jamieson for NY Times). Bookstore owners in England are overjoyed to welcome customers back after they were allowed to reopen their businesses on Monday.” – June 19, 2020
Australia’s wild horses, known as brumbies, in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales. (Matthew Abott). They are the subject of a national debate: Scientists say they must be culled because they are destroying rivers and endangering wildlife, but cattlemen argue that the horses are part of a rural heritage. – June 30, 2020
Photo on left: ”A cafe in Paris last month. European wage subsidies have kept unemployment largely stable. (Thibault Camus/Associated Press)” – July 3, 2020 Photo on right: ”Outdoor seating in Manhattan last weekend. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times). As Americans prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, officials are warning residents to stay home as new coronavirus infections hit record levels.” – July 3 2020
”A large cruise ship taking tourists to Venice before the pandemic shut down international travel. (Miguel Medina/Agence France-Presse – Getty Images). With the tourism industry crushed, locals are enjoying a long-lost tradition: aimless walks showcasing the city’s slow pace and faded beauty.” – July 3, 2020
Photo on left: ”Out-of-work Britons try berry picking. Picking strawberries at Hall Hunter farm in Surrey, a county southwest of London. (Alex Atack for NY Times). In this pandemic year, some Britons who trained as chefs, personal trainers or sales people are working in fields instead, picking berries. They are filling in farms where fruit is traditionally picked by seasonal workers from Eastern Europe. ‘It’s not something I would always do,’ one out-of-work chef said, but ‘it kept me busy, and it’s educating me.”’ – July 9, 2020 Photo on right: ”People foraging for clams, crabs and shrimp in Bali in June. (Nyimas Laula for NY Times). The tourist-dependent Indonesian island is struggling to get back on its feet. The pandemic has forced many resort workers to return to their villages and take up traditional ways of making a living.” – July 26, 2020
”Polar bears could be close to extinction by the end of the century due to shrinking Arctic sea ice if global warming continues unabated, according to a new study.” – July 26, 2020
Photo on left: ”Protesters carrying portraits of Sergei Furgal as they marched to demand his release in Khabarovsk, Russia. (Igor Volkov/Associated Press). Tens of thousands of people protested in the Far East of Russia, calling for the release of a popular regional governor who was arrested last week on suspicion of multiple murders.” – July 16, 2020 Photo on right: ”The large, ongoing protests in Khabarovsk have little precedent in post-Soviet Russia. (Evgenii Preverzev/Reuters). Russian street rallies continue for third week. Just this month, Mr. Putin won a referendum that will allow him to stay in office until 2036.”- July 27, 2020
”President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey signs decree allowing Hagia Sophia in İstanbul to be used as a mosque again. The decree came after a Turkish court revoked the site’s 80-year-old status as a museum. The Hagia Sophia was a cathedral, a mosque and a museum. It’s converting again. The World Heritage site was once a potent symbol of Christian-Muslim rivalry.” – July 24, 2020
Photo on left: ”China’s Long March 5 rocket blasting off from Wenchang Space Launch Center on Thursday on its way to Mars. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)” – July 26, 2020 Photo on right: ”A famous Paris store will shut its doors. (Yoan Valat/EPA, via Shutterstock). Tati, the department store that revolutionized postwar shopping in France and stamped its pink gingham bag on the vibrant Paris neighborhood of Barbès, will be gone by next year. It is a victim of Covid-19, its latest owners say, and sharply declining sales. Paris bureau chief of NY Times described it as ‘a once-thronged wonder of Paris more visited than the Eiffel Tower”’ – July 26, 2020
Photo on left: ”HBO Max Pulls ‘Gone With The Wind’, Citing Racist Depictions. The streaming service HBO Max has removed the 1939 movie from its catalog, pledging to eventually bring the film back ‘with a discussion of its historical context’. Long considered a cinematic triumph, the movie has come under scrutiny for romanticizing the Civil War-era South and glossing over the horrors of slavery.” – June 12, 2020 Photo on right: ”Olivia de Havilland in a promotional photograph for ‘Gone with the Wind’ (1939), in which she played Melanie Hamilton. (Amapa/Reuters). Olivia de Havilland, a Star of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Dies at 104. Ms. de Havilland, a classic Hollywood beauty, built an illustrious film career punctuated by a successful fight to loosen studios’ grip on actors”. – July 27, 2020 Personal note: Gone With The Wind… Whatever the discussions about this wonderful film, I had watched it many years ago as probably most of you, and this news awakened a desire in me to watch it again, which I think would be a great way of passing time in these days of quarantine. I checked my DVD collection hoping to find this film but unfortunately I don’t have it. Instead, I came across another iconic film ‘Casablanca’ (1942), which is also counted among the greatest films of all times and which would be good enough for now. [I found out that both of the films –‘Gone With The Wind‘ and ‘Casablanca‘– are available as a set in Amazon. The set of ‘Gone With The Wind‘ and ‘Scarlett‘ (miniseries as a sequel to Gone With The Wind) in Amazon also drew my interest.
Photo on left: ”Police officers and soldiers on patrol in Melbourne on Sunday. (William West/Agance France-Presse – Getty Images). Australia’s second-largest city has imposed some of the toughest restrictions in the world to beat back a new wave of coronavirus infections.” – August 5, 2020 Photo on right: ”Security and police officers enforcing mask requirements on a train in Berlin this week. (Annette Riedl/DPA, via Associated Press). Virus cases surge in France and Germany.” – August 7, 2020
Photo on left: ”Social distancing at a performance in Salzburg, Austria, on Sunday.” (Barbara Gindl/Agence France-Presse – Getty Images) – August 6, 2020 Photo on right: ”Kenyan students must redo the 2020 school year. (Khadija Farah for NY Times). Education officials said in July that they were canceling the academic year and would make all students repeat it. Experts believe Kenya is the only country to take such a drastic measure.” – August 6, 2020
Photo on left: ”Beirut, Lebanon: Two explosions, one very powerful, killed over 190 people. No one had taken action to secure 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a hangar in the city’s port. (Hussein Malla/Associated Press)” – August 5, 2020 Photo on right: ”Protesters in Beirut on Saturday. (Ibrahim Dirani Dar Al Mussawir/EPA, via Shutterstock). Anger in Beirut reaches boiling point. Demonstrators and security forces clashed at a protest.” – August 10, 2020
Photo on left: ”Hiroshima 75th Anniversary: Setsuko Thurlow was 13 years old in Hiroshima when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb there. (Brett Gundlock for NY Times). She has fought for the abolition of nuclear weapons ever since, sharing a Nobel Peace Prize for the work in 2017.” – August 7, 2020 Photo on right: ”Senator Kamala Harris accepting the Democratic nomination for Vice President, becoming the first Black woman and the first person of Indian descent to be nominated for national office by a major party. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)” – August 19,2020
Photo on left: ”Post-Brexit, Rishi Sunak, the chancellor of Exchequer of the United Kingdom, was confronted by a pro-independence demonstrator during a visit to the Isle of Bute in Scotland last week. (Pool photo by Jeff J. Mitchell).” – August 10, 2020 Photo on right: ”Shuttered shopping streets in London. (Tolga Akmen/Agence France-Presse – Getty Images). Britain has suffered a recession deeper than any other reported by a European or North American country during the coronavirus pandemic.” – August 13, 2020
”An outdoor party in Berlin. (Gordon Welters for NY Times). Nightclubs across Europe may be shut, but the continent’s party people are flocking to illegal raves organized on social media and messaging apps.” – August 10, 2020
”Tel Aviv City Hall was lit in the colors of the United Arab Emirates national flag on Thursday evening after an agreement to normalize relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. (Jack Guez/Agence France-Presse – Getty Images). Israel and U.A.E. strike a major diplomatic agreement: If fulfilled, it would make the U.A.E. the third Arab country to establish normal diplomatic relations with Israel, after Jordan and Egypt.” – August 14, 2020
Photo on left: ”Protest inBelarus: Wrapped in opposition flags and chanting antigovernment slogans, Belarusians turned out by the thousands to protest in Minsk. (Sergei Grits/Associated Press).” – August 17, 2020 Photo on right: ”Migrants landing on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing from Turkey in March. (Aris Messinis/Agence France-Presse – Getty Images).” – August 17, 2020
”Russia’s vaccine: A scientist working with samples of a coronavirus vaccine at the Gamaleya Institute in Moscow. (Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr./Russian Direct Investment Fund, via Associated Press).” – August 24, 2020
”A Nigerian ballet school enters the spotlight. (Stephen Tayo for NY Times). In June, a minute-long video of an 11-year-old boy pirouetting expertly in the rain was shared widely online, eventually gathering more than 20 million views on social media. His arabesque has trained a spotlight on the unlikely story of Leap of Dance Academy in Lagos, Nigeria. Donations and offers of support have followed. The school has transformed the lives of its 12 students, affording them a place to dance and to dream. ”I wanted, more than anything, to give that opportunity to those younger than myself so they wouldn’t miss their chance like I did,” said the school’s founder, DanielOwoseni Ajala, above left. ‘It was too bad that I was as old as I was when I realized I wanted to dance.””. – August 24, 2020
Since this post is getting quite long, I will stop here. I will publish another post (the continuation of this post) on this topic soon.
2 thoughts on “Pleasant Morning Briefings by ‘The New York Times’ – Part 1”
During the years that i have been in NYC it was a ritual to but NY Times on sunday mornings even if i havent been able to read it completely never ever😊😊😊
By the way this is really nice blog and şots of work,congragulations
Thank you Pelin. I suggest The NY Times morning briefings. They are short-cut but comprehensive with pleasant side issues and easy to read:)). I mentioned the side issues especially in the second part (Part 2) of this post.
During the years that i have been in NYC it was a ritual to but NY Times on sunday mornings even if i havent been able to read it completely never ever😊😊😊
By the way this is really nice blog and şots of work,congragulations
Thank you Pelin. I suggest The NY Times morning briefings. They are short-cut but comprehensive with pleasant side issues and easy to read:)). I mentioned the side issues especially in the second part (Part 2) of this post.