At 8:36 p.m. on Saturday night, shots were fired outside the ballroom of the Washington Hilton, where the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was well underway. It marked the third time in three years that President Donald Trump faced the threat of assassination.
That news, however, did not make The New York Times’ Sunday paper.
The Times covered the shooting extensively on its website. For its Sunday print edition, however, the next day’s news had already been set when the shooting occurred, setting it up for a backlash from its critics, who believed it was intentional.
“This seemed so outrageous (even for the NYT) that I wanted to verify it,” Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire wrote on X alongside a photo of the Times’ Sunday paper. “I went and got a physical copy and took this photo. The shooting was at 8:34pm ET on Saturday night. Is this not enough time to get the story in print?”
While some news outlets can make changes to their print editions until late at night, or even the early morning, the Times said in an X post responding to the backlash that its Sunday print edition “goes to press at 8pm Saturday.”
A spokesperson told Business Insider that there are no more Sunday print editions and that the shooting will be featured on the front page of Monday’s print edition.
“The print edition is an anachronism for old fogies like me who still like newsprint,” one X user responded to Maguire. “If you want the latest news, you know where to go.”
