https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aN9g!,w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdaa1053d-f722-422d-93e4-f55e768227d3_1002x644.png A digital dashboard opens an interactive window into 25 years of New York Times coverage. A new database created by a former policy analyst for New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, “Below The Fold,” allows users to slice and dice all of the New York Times articles published in the past 25 years. It empirically proves everything we already knew about the “newspaper of record,” from its obsession with Gaza to its outsized focus on coastal elites. Here are some examples: Sorting the articles for coverage by country generates a statistic called articles/million residents/year. Gaza generates a score of 104.4, followed by 55.7 for Israel and 41.14 for the West Bank. Compare that with the likes of Japan and Germany, which boast scores of just 1.32 and 2.78, respectively. In total, the Times tagged nearly 15,000 articles with coverage of “Israel” from 2000 to 2025. The database also breaks down coverage by state, adjusted by population. Summer vacation destinations like Vermont and Maine get a lot of coverage relative to their populations. Alabama, Indiana, and Arkansas do not. The frequency of words appearing in article headlines is searchable, too. The word “Black,” for example, appeared in nearly 120 headlines a month at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, compared with around 20 a month in the year 2000. READ MORE: New Database Empirically Proves Everything You Suspected About the New York Times