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The New York Times Company () is an American media company. It is best known as the publisher of its namesake, The New York Times, but most of the company's revenues are from other assets. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. has served as Chairman of the Board since 1997.
Overview
The company was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones in New York, New York. In its very first edition on September 18, 1851, the paper read,
- "We publish today the first issue of the New-York Daily Times, and we intend to issue it every morning (Sundays excepted) for an indefinite number of years to come."
The company had 2004 revenues of $3.3 billion. It also owns The Boston Globe, the International Herald Tribune, almost two dozen other regional newspapers in the United States (15 of which publish daily), eight local television stations, and two New York City radio stations, including the legendary WQXR. In 2005, it had 35 web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com.
The company is a minority stakeholder as of 2003 in the Boston Red Sox, a position acquired as part of John W. Henry's purchase of the famed baseball team. Company-owned papers often state this in articles about the team.
Since 1967 it has been a publicly traded company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NYT. The company has two types of stock, Class A and Class B. Class B shares are not publicly traded, and are the mechanism by which the descendents of Adolph Ochs, who purchased the New York Times newspaper in 1896, maintain control of the company. At the April 2005 Board meeting, Class B shareholders elected nine of the fourteen directors of the company.
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"The New York Times Company"