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About The New York Times Company

About The New York Times
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Chairman, & Janet L. Robinson, President and CEO

Welcome to our Company Web site. Here you can find out about our history, our business and journalistic endeavors and how our powerful and trusted brands are committed to quality news, information and entertainment in the U.S. and around the world. We strive to leverage our brands across multiple media platforms, to the benefit of our readers, advertisers, employees and shareholders.

To accomplish this, we have developed a strategy that is focused on five critical areas:

  • Enhancing the positions of our strong brands through the introduction of innovative new products and services across media platforms
  • Pursuing leadership positions in key content verticals, both in print and online
  • Building a vibrant long-term innovation capability that helps us anticipate consumer preferences and create ways of satisfying them
  • Rebalancing our portfolio of properties and exercising financial discipline as we allocate capital for the benefit of our shareholders
  • Increasing our operational efficiency and reducing both fixed and variable costs

The New York Times Company, a leading media company with 2006 revenues of
$3.3 billion, includes The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, 15 other daily newspapers, WQXR-FM and more than 30 Web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com. The Company's core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment.

Research & Development

Research & Development

In 2006 the Company created its R+D group that works closely with our business units to develop new products such as mobile Web sites at many of our properties and to launch the local search product at Boston.com.

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