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

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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 John Koblin 6/21/10 8:33pm

Announcements

Arthur Brisbane is the Times’ New Public Editor (Updated)

The Times has hired Arthur Brisbane as their fourth public editor.

Mr. Brisbane will quickly become a very big favorite in the newsroom, we're sure. It appears he has experience both in the newsroom and on the publishing side.

According to a Times memo, here's his career breakdown:

1977: Kansas City Times, Metro columnist

1984: Washington Post, reporter for national and Read More

By John Koblin 1/21/10 5:11pm

Why Won’t Times Pay Model Go Live ‘Til 2011?

Why does The Times need 12 months before it introduces a metered system for charging readers for content? Or rather, why announce it so far ahead?

Speculation that an announcement was meant to be timed to the release of the Apple Tablet, rumored to be the topic of a big Cupertino "event" slated for Jan. 27, Read More

By Staff 1/21/10 5:11pm

Why Won’t Times Pay Model Go Live ‘Til 2011?

Why does The Times need 12 months before it introduces a metered system for charging readers for content? Or rather, why announce it so far ahead?

Speculation that an announcement was meant to be timed to the release of the Apple Tablet, rumored to be the topic of a big Cupertino "event" slated for Jan. 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 Times should Read More

By John Koblin 4/23/09 2:33pm

Arthur Sulzberger Addresses Times Company Shareholders: ‘It Is This Commitment to Excellence That Will Get Us Through This Turbulent Time’

Today, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. addressed New York Times Company shareholders at the company's annual shareholders meeting. It was a week of ups-and-downs for the Times Company, with Monday's announcement of five Pulitzer Prizes for the flagship paper followed two days later by a dismal quarterly earnings report, which saw the New York Read More

By John Koblin 4/09/09 4:20pm

Times Editors Ask Reporters for Cost-Cutting Suggestions

New York Times editors have come to the newsroom with a simple question: Got any ideas on how to save money?

Rick Berke, The Times’ assistant managing editor, sent a memo to the newsroom this morning to ask reporters and editors to come forward with any ideas to cut costs. The ideas can be small Read More