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Now The New York Times For Kids Quits Print

Published: September 2, 2025 1 minute 5 comments
A New York Times For Kids masthead (November 28, 2021) art: Zohar Lazar

The August 31, 2025 issue of The New York Times For Kids will be the last print edition the paper announced. The supplement first appeared on May 14, 2017, eventually moving to the last Sunday of every month.

art: Zohar Lazar
a montage of New York Times For Kids covers

From Vivian Ewing’s New York Times communiqué (or here):

Beginning with that very first issue [or here], members of the team behind The New York Times for Kids, a monthly section that mimicked the newspaper with National, Science, Sports and other pages made just for kids, took their readers’ opinions seriously. They set out to treat their audience with respect and to create a section that spoke to, not down to, children. With the expertise of the newsroom’s journalists behind them, they covered the topics that children had the most questions about, like homelessness, money and immigration, but also puberty, cake and, yes, slime.

After eight years in print, the final edition of the Kids section appears in Sunday’s newspaper. The Times Magazine, which has housed the project, is undergoing a digital redesign and expansion and is shifting its priorities in order to realize this vision.

Though a digital edition will remain this is a blow to newspaper illustrators, graphic artists, and cartoonists. The monthly publication was full of graphics of all kinds as seen on the nytkids Instagram page.

The New York Times For Kids masthead (March 28, 2021) art: Quick Honey

Amber Williams led the section from 2018 to 2024 … Molly Bennet has been the editor in charge of the section since 2024.

Visuals also brought kids into the fold. Deb Bishop, the design director of The New York Times for Kids, said she knew that illustrations and graphics would be essential to the section’s look and function. Throughout the years, news events and ideas were explained in flow charts, comics, annotated illustrations and games.

art: Mark Ryden
art: Quick Honey

The insert’s imaginative art and variety has been recognized by the Design and Art Direction (D&AD) awards – more than once.

The New York Times is dedicated to innovating in print, and the singular, print-only broadsheet sections produced by The New York Times Mag Labs is one example of that. The New York Times for Kids is published monthly, with a new issue in the paper on the last Sunday of each month. Since their inception in 2016, these sections have become a much anticipated feature of the Sunday paper. The New York Times for Kids section aims to entertain and stimulate children while engaging them creatively with the news – all without talking down to them.

“The concept of breaking down difficult world topics for kids is a tough one, but an important one. The New York Times for Kids does this with immense creativity and playfulness, using world class illustration and, above all else, fearlessness.” – – – Shazia Chaudhry, Art Director, Freelance

The New York Times For Kids – Comics Issue (September 27, 2020) art: Katherine Lam
Hat tip

to Gary Tazali for the heads-up

I would like to think that somewhere in that last issue the journalists taught the kids the meaning of…

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Comments 5

  1. I edited a kid-written weekly insert for the Denver Post in the last 10 years of my career. Our kids — aged 8 to 14 — interviewed authors, musicians, politicians, astronauts, dancers and actors on the same basis as professional adult journalists, while learning about techniques, ethics and writing and photography tips. They also wrote book reviews and attended press previews of movies.

    But when — thank you, Alden Capital — we lost our print edition and were entirely on-line, we lost an important recruiting link, because now parents and grandparents no longer came across the publication by chance and said to the bright writers in their orbit, “Maybe you should apply.”

    Print matters in these things: It does indeed take a whole village to raise a child, but you have to keep the whole village involved. When you fail to promote, something terrible happens: Nothing.

  2. “I would like to think that somewhere in that last issue the journalists taught the kids the meaning of…”

    question: could this sentence be explained?

  3. I don’t think this section was ever online at the Times website, although I would be glad to be proven wrong. I sent most of my copies to either the MSU or OSU comics library. The last section is waiting to mail to OSU now.

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