The New York Times Company

Janet L. Robinson is the CEO of The New York Times Company.

The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) is an American media company which publishes major newspapers including The New York Times, The Boston Globe and the International Herald Tribune, along with about 20 other regional newspapers in the United States.

Originally called the New York Daily Times, the New York Times was first published on September 18, 1851. The newspaper was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones. A few years later, in 1856, Raymond was also one of the founders of the Associated Press.

Adolph S. Ochs acquired the New York Times in 1896, and he led the newspaper to achieve the international prominence it holds today. Ochs coined the newspaper's slogan "All The News That's Fit To Print." The Times moved into a new office building at the beginning of the 20th century, and the area was named Times Square in 1904. Nine years later, the Times opened an annex at 229 43rd Street, which is the current company headquarters.

The New York Times nickname, "the gray lady," is thought to have been coined around 1950 and to be taken from the phrase "the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street," long used to describe the Bank of England.

The New York Times Company owns eight local television stations and two New York radio stations. It holds a stake in the Boston Red Sox and two paper mills in the US and Canada. It operates web sites through New York Times Digital and About.com, acquired in March 2005 from Primedia for $410 million.

The descendants of Adolph Ochs, principally the Sulzberger family, control the company through the Ochs-Sulzberger family trust. The trust owns a majority of the Class B shares and elects nine of 13 directors to the New York Times board. The family also owns about 19 percent of the Class A shares. Effectively, other owns of the Class A shares have no say in the management of the company.

In 2005, The New York Times Company had revenues of $3.4 billion.

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Ethel Haines   Brielle, NJ	Posted at 7:58am on Monday, April 21st, 2008
I am disappointed that the NY Times, which my husband and I read every day, did not print a head line story about President Bush and his orders to TORTURE. It is still new news and I hope to read about it and soon.
Grant Langdon   Cincinnati, Ohio	Posted at 1:42am on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
After I told a NY times reporter our sheriff gave a lie detector test to a fireman and he faild it, the Sheriff, who was protecting that person, arrested my son to shut me up. I wrote a book about what happened titled Scandal in the Courtroom, Found Guilty without Trial. My web sit is grantlangdon.com
Mary Rogers   Pittsburgh Pa.	Posted at 8:42pm on Thursday, February 21st, 2008
The Front page of Mccain stinks, SHAME on you!!!I will never buy your paper again.
pam   nh	Posted at 6:13am on Saturday, September 8th, 2007
It's frightening to me that the newspapers,tv, and radio stations are all controled by one company.That's incredible power over communications
michael a rodriguez   nyny	Posted at 1:54pm on Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
you have a great paper, but i have the story of the year. Imagine bieng the writerand the creater for 125 movies. including the Matrix then having it stolen from you by Warner Bros. anf Martin Scorsese

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