New York Times will no longer endorse candidates outside presidential races

The New York Times’s editorial board had endorsed local-level candidates in Senate, congressional and state legislative races for years. Photograph: Gary Hershorn/Reuters

The New York Times will no longer endorse political candidates outside presidential elections, the newspaper announced on Monday.

US newspapers have a long history of endorsing candidates, but the New York Times is joining some other publishers in moving away from the tradition – including the Miami Herald and Alden Global Capital, which owns titles such as the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News and the Denver Post.