The New York Times Company chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr and CEO Janet Robinson announced today that they are cutting the salaries of New York Times editors, as well as all employees on the corporate side by 5 percent through the end of December. Mr. Sulzberger, along with Times executive editor Bill Keller, is also asking Read More
At yesterday’s Times State of the Newsroom meeting, a staffer asked executive editor Bill Keller if the paper was running out of money. Mr. Keller handed the mic over to New York Times President and General Manager Scott Heekin-Canedy who said, definitively, no.
"We have the ability to pay our debt, we’re not concerned about Read More
The New York Times Company has hired "internet professional" Joseph Seibert, formerly an executive at Marc Ecko. Mr. Seibert will become the company’s new chief information officer.
He’s been its COO since 2006 so he presumably had a role in the Air Force One ad campaign that ad guru Andrew Essex Read More
Is there any circumstance in which the New York Times would feel good about losing readers? Yes!
“This is a result of the strategic decision,” wrote Times President Scott Heekin-Canedy in an in-house memo last night. The decline—down 3.5% percent in circulation numbers released on Monday—is suggested to be entirely attributable to replacing “our ‘two Read More
The New York Times announced this evening, and in tomorrow’s paper, a change in format. The paper will consolidate its printing at its College Point facility in Queens, lay off 250 employees, and reduce the trim size of the paper to the size of USA Today.
The process will take two years. In a memo, Read More
