By Foster Kamer 8/08/12 5:20pm

MEDIA BRIEFS

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Media Briefs: New York’s New Site, The Nation Goes Gossip Girl

New York is launching a new site (or “channel”), and media reporters got a gander at it today. It has a very impressive technological feature that isn’t “It writes itself.” Elsewhere, Gossip Girl’s greatest media cameo ever is on the way, while Lena Dunham’s New Yorker byline was most certainly more than a cameo. Also, somewhere, a former Times CEO is busy not caring about the fate of About.com because she has more money than any of us. Here are your Wednesday Evening Media Briefs: Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 4/18/12 11:16am

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Arthur, Pick Me! This 30-Year-Old North Carolina Real Estate Mogul Would Like Like to Throw His Name in the Hat for Times CEO

As far as career developments go, we imagine that being named CEO of The New York Times—paper of record, beloved cultural institution, osteoporotic backbone of democracy—must feel something like a cross between being elected president and hearing one’s name called in a Hunger Games reaping.

Last week, one North Carolina man told Off the Record he would like to volunteer as tribute. Read More

By Megan McCarthy 12/27/11 6:49pm

The New York Times

The Times Selling Regional Media Group for $143 M.

The New York Times has announced that it will sell its Regional Media Group to Florida-based Halifax Media Holdings, LLC for $143 million in cash. The Regional Media Group consists of 16 regional newspapers including titles like the News Chief of Winter Haven, Florida and Thibodaux, Louisiana’s Daily Comet. The back-of-the-envelope math suggests that each paper is worth just shy of $9 million apiece, or about two years of consulting work from outgoing Times CEO Janet Robinson. Read More

By Sharon Elizabeth Samuel 4/06/11 1:26pm

The New York Times

NYT's Arthur Sulzberger and Janet Robinson Insist the Paywall Is Not a Paywall

Rather, it’s an “online pricing plan,” a “digital subscription plan.” “It’s not like the Times of London wall,” said Sulzberger, noting the porousness and searchability of the new New York Times.

Yet at last night’s discussion at the Columbia Journalism School, entitled ‘The Future of Media, Publishing and Paid Content’, the audience just couldn’t shake Read More

By John Koblin 9/01/10 9:16pm

It's New York Times Night at The Open

In case you didn’t know (and really, how couldn’t you?) today was Stonyfield Organic Yogurt Day at the Open! But that’s not all: Tonight is New York Times Night!

What exactly does that mean? Will Bill Keller, Arthur Suzlberger, Janet Robinon and Jill Abramson be occupying seats in a suite?

The paper will receive a Read More