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.

The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is selling its 15 regional newspapers to the Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Halifax Media Group, according to reports and an accidentally published page on the Halifax Media website. The news comes days after NYT CEO Janet Robinson stepped down. Update: The NYT confirmed it is…

Who will follow Janet Robinson in one of the highest profile—and most challenging—media jobs? The rumors and suggestions, ranging from the rational to the ridiculous, are flying about possible candidates for CEO of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) as the search for internal and external candidates begins.

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…

A revealing bit of conversation at the end of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) earnings call between an analyst, digital head Martin Nisenholtz and CEO Janet Robinson about Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and the About.com response to the change in search algorithms that hit About, among others.

The NYTimes.com metered paywall is currently entering its second phase, said New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) CEO Janet Robinson as she began the earnings call. “We have transitioned from the requirements phase into active development mode, building the systems and infrastructure to support the commerce, customer service and production…

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…

Waiting for details about the plan to take NYTimes.com metered in early 2011? Keep waiting. CEO Janet Robinson told analysts on the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Q1 call that the company has made progress, including decisions on what content will be metered and how search queries will be handled,…

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,…

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…

The NYTCo’s “relentless” focus on controlling costs are what contributed to a major turnaround in Q4, said Janet Robinson, president and CEO, as she kicked off the earnings call. She also provided a brief outline on the debt and how the metered approach will provide flexibility between free and paid…

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…

“If charging people to view articles didn’t work a few years ago, why do they think it will work this time?” That’s what one reader wanted to know when Janet L. Robinson, president and CEO of the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT), agreed to answer moderated questions online with…

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…