The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT (http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=NYT)) is an American media company best known as the publisher of its namesake, The New York Times.
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 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.
It had 2003 revenues of $3.2 billion. Since 1967 it has been a publicly traded company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NYT.
A new headquarters for the newspaper, a skyscraper designed by Renzo Piano, is currently under construction at 41st Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan.
In August 2005, the Times was accused of attempting to unseal the adoption records of Supreme Court nominee Justice John Roberts's children, an unprecendented investigation by a newspaper.
NewYorkTimes Editorial Coverage of the American Involvement in Vietnam, 1945-1965: A Case Study to Test the Huntington Thesis of the Existence of an Oppositional Press in the United States.
The NewYorkTimesCompany (NYSE:NYT (http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=NYT)) is an American media company best known as the publisher of its namesake, The NewYorkTimes.
The company was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones in NewYork, NewYork.
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.
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