The "tools" are pair of programs, and associate libraries, namedThis software is unfinished. It works for me but I can't guarantee the same for you.
The plan has been to rebundle stuff in a WWW::News package, so that many of the same functions can be used with "pluggable" newsource parsers. That hasn't happened yet. I have no idea when it will.
This software is meant for personal use only, in accordance with the New York Times terms of usage. Play nicely.
Bugs, or just plain mistakes, that you may encounter in your travels include...
nyt-maker
for munging the day's paper into a DocBook file and nyt2pdf
for munging the DocBook file into a PostScript/PDF file.