By Eliza Shapiro 11:29pm

Mathis Speaks! The Times Co.’s Spokeswoman’s Greatest Hits

On Monday, Times Company spokeswoman Catherine Mathis announced that she’d be leaving the company to work at Standard and Poors, the financial analyst. Ms. Mathis was a Company Woman: She protected her bosses, Arthur Sulzberger and Janet Robinson, with all her might and wasn’t the glad-handling PR gossip who hit the circuit to butter up Read More

By John Koblin 5/06/09 12:26am

The Times is Mad as Hell and … Well?

The New York Times has a public-relations problem.

Every day there seem to be articles, and endless Web and television chatter, about The Times: The Times might shut down The Globe! The Times lost $75 million in the first quarter!

There’s only $34 million left in cash! The Times will stop printing in May! The Read More

By John Koblin 4/02/09 12:17pm

The New York Times Puts Up Its Dukes

There was a time when The New York Times never had to say anything back. If the newspaper caught hell for a story in the popular media, editors at the paper could rely on the time-tested formulation: “The story speaks for itself.” When critics carped about the newspapers’ editorial vision, business plan, or financial position, Read More

By John Koblin 4/16/08 8:58pm

Case Against Times' Barry Bearak Thrown Out; He's Leaving Zimbabwe

Barry Bearak is on his way home. Here’s the statement from Bill Keller, sent to us through the Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis:

Barry’s family, friends and colleagues are overjoyed that the court threw out the preposterous charges against him, and that he is on his way home. His only offense was honest journalism, telling Zimbabwe’s Read More

By John Koblin 1/18/08 11:47am

Big Online Ads Limited to Once a Month for the Times

Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. has been juggling two things when considering ads like the one that dominated the New York Times home page yesterday: good money from advertisers versus frustrated readers. His decision: to limit those ads to once a month.

Times spokesperson Catherine Mathis writes Media Mob:

When such novel advertisements have been allowed, Read More

By John Koblin 1/17/08 11:37pm

New York Times Is Big Apple Favorite

Today, a big swath of the nytimes.com home page has been taken over by an Apple ad. Directly below the New York Times banner, there’s a banner ad with a quote from The Wall Street Journal comparing Apple’s Leopard software (favorably) to Windows’ Vista . To the right, in a double-wide skyscraper ad placement, there’s Read More