Thousands of other copies were sold to other "sponsors" under the program, which had been approved by the British circulation bureau, the paper said.
Mr. Lewis went on to the New York bureau of the paper and eventually became the main news editor there.
Since the government has trimmed the budgets of the state bureaus that own papers and magazines, all but the largest publications now have to be self-supporting.
Robert E. Ingle, Gannett's Trenton bureau chief, said the papers had decided months ago to save time by holding just two editorial board meetings, one for the four Republicans and one for Mr. Corzine and Mr. Florio.
In her suit, Ms. Clemente asked the bureau to release all papers connected to Mr. Scarpa (who died of AIDS in 1994 after receiving a blood transfusion), especially those related to Carlos Marcello, a New Orleans don suspected by some of having played a role in the Kennedy assassination on Nov. 22, 1963.
The New York Times said the hacking initially focussed on the computers of David Barboza, the paper's bureau chief in Shanghai who wrote the report, and one of his predecessors, Jim Yardley.
They used methods "associated with the Chinese military" to hack the computers of David Barboza, the paper's bureau chief in Shanghai who wrote the report, and one of his predecessors, Jim Yardley.
Some reporters and editors in Chicago have complained about the company's drive to merge its newspaper, television and Internet properties into one media conglomerate, in which television reporters share office space with newspaper reporters, story ideas are shared among once competing papers and bureaus are consolidated.
From 2002 until 2008 he was the paper's bureau chief in Tokyo.
Off to London That year, he moved to London as the paper's bureau chief.
