The New York Times Is A Family Business - by Samo Burja
America’s most influential news company is controlled by the Sulzberger family. By exercising his personal authority, its latest scion has saved both the company and his family’s fortune.
A. G. Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times since 2018, in 2020. Photo by Patrick Farrell. Source. With over 9.3 million individual paying subscribers for its print or digital editions, the New York Times is by far the most widely-read newspaper in the English-speaking world.1 Its two closest competitors, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, each count fewer than 3 million paid subscribers. The paper is published by the eponymous, publicly-traded New York Times Company, which had about 5000 employees in 2021 and a market capitalization of about $5.6 billion as of January…
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