New York: The New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger said on Friday that his newspaper would cover Donald Trump's presidency "fairly" and "without bias" while holding the country's governing institutions accountable.
"But we also approach the incoming Trump administration without bias," he added. "We will cover his policies and his agenda fairly."
The paper's main task, he said, is "to serve as a watchdog to the powerful; and to hold mighty institutions accountable, without fear or favour."
It also broke stories on women's accusations of Trump's sexual harassment, and the bankruptcies of real estate and gambling businesses he claimed as successes.
Conservative critics regularly condemned the newspaper, saying its coverage was biased, and Trump himself posted dozens of raging tweets excoriating his hometown newspaper.
Among them: "Really disgusting," "no longer a credible source," "very dishonest," "every article is unfair and biased," "false, malicious & libellous."
More generally, critics have accused the Times -- along with the country's other major news media -- for failing to take the measure of the anger among white working-class voters in the country's declining Rust Belt whose support helped propel Trump into the White House as a political outsider.
Without referring to the criticism, Sulzberger said his reporters would look "beyond Washington to explore the roots of the anger that has roiled red and blue America," speaking of Republican and Democratic voters.
"If many Americans no longer seem to understand each other," he added, "let's make it our job to interpret and explain."
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