The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) today continued its recent penchant for making the news as well as reporting it. New details are emerging about a handsome pay package the company will give outgoing CEO Janet Robinson.

Janet Robinson is retiring as president and CEO of The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) at the end of the month, the company announced after the market closed Thursday. Arthur Sulzberger Jr., NYTCo chairman and publisher of The New York Times, will serve as interim CEO until the company…

Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) spent $40 million or more to build the digital paywall that went live late last month. Not so, insists Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. During a Q&A at Columbia University, Sulzberger told interviewer Bill Grueskin he wouldn’t get into…

By now, we were supposed to have clarity about how The New York Times will use a meter to create a digital subscription revenue stream. After all, the plan went into effect in Canada March 17 and is supposed to start rolling out in the United States and globally Monday…

A year after announcing plans to turn on the meters, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. is still trying to convince people the New York Times isn’t going to disappear from the free internet. He took the show to Munich Sunday, promising that “it won’t be a hard and fast wall” and admitting…

Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., has been making the media conference rounds a lot lately to talk up the metered paywall coming to NYTimes.com next January, so it’s not surprising he didn’t have much to add in the way of new details in his closing appearance at the Conversational Media Summit. But…

Whatever relationship you already have with NYTimes.com, if you aren’t paying for access, it’s not deep enough. At least, that’s part of the message implied in Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.‘s prepared remarks for this week’s annual shareholders meeting. “Creating an online business model with the goal of yielding larger financial returns…

During the Q1 earnings call last week, New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) Janet Robinson was grilled on the company’s plans to deal with the much-ballyhooed New York expansion of the Wall Street Journal—and tried to insist the strategy was to treat the WSJ like all competition. Then she quickly…

While the NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) struggled under the weight of economic pressures and debt last year, top execs personally did pretty well, even as the company reduced its newsroom by 100 staffers. As the company’s recent Q4 results showed, cost-cutting led to greater profitability and that appears to show in…

Just a few weeks after NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and president and CEO Janet Robinson discussed the company’s new metering pay model at our conference, the pair continued to tease out the idea at Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Media Summit 2010. In a conversation with James Ellis,…

With NYTimes.com now set to follow FT.com with a metered paid web model, both companies’ bosses gave presentations and sat together on a panel at the FT’s own Digital Media & Broadcasting Conference to debate the strategies. Here are the videos…

For nearly 40 minutes, top executives from The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) took questions from interviewer Staci D. Kramer, co-editor and EVP of ContentNext Media, and participants in paidContent 2010. Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., chairman and publisher; Janet Robinson, president and CEO; and Martin Nisenholtz, SVP-digital operations, knew the…

The big story the past few months on the subject of paid content is the NYTCo’s announcement that it would pursue a metered model for its website. Our Staci D. Kramer put the basic question to top NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) execs during the first afternoon session at paidContent2010, which is…

For the past few days, we’ve been filling you in on some of the panels at our first namesake paidContent 2010 conference on Friday, Feb. 19 at TheTimesCenter. We’re also featuring four Q&As with industry leaders from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI), MediaVest USA and The New York…

When we decided to present paidContent 2010: Discussing the Economics of Content on Feb. 19 in New York, we knew it was going to be topical and that we would be programming in real time. What we didn’t realize then—or when we picked TheTimesCenter as a location—is just how real…

The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) has a year to sell the public on its plans to start charging frequent NYTimes.com users for access but first execs have to sell the segment of its own staff that wanted to stay free. A year of constant carping about how awful…

Last spring, the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) threatened to shut down the Boston Globe unless unions agreed to $20 million in cuts. Despite pleas to get involved as the Newspaper Guild struggled with its response—eventually resolved—NYC Chairman Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and CEO Janet Robinson stayed away. Today the…

The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) has gone public with efforts to sell the Boston Globe and the rest of the New England Media Group but Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., is staying away from absolutes about an actual sale. In his first interview on the subject, Sulzberger told the Globe:…

The pending sale of WQXR-FM for $45 million will help the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) chip away at its $1 billion debt, Arthur Sulzberger and Janet Robinson told their staff in a memo posted by The Awl. Tired of having outsiders do it for them, the second memo…