It’s going to take a bit of time. Please bear with me through the process.

🔺 Publicly traded

🔺💲 Publicly traded but mostly privately owned

💲 Privately owned

🔷 Non for profit and/or trust ran by board of directors (Note: I suggest taking a long look at who the board of directors are, especially AP and NPR)

There are a lot of Brits running a lot of American (or thought to be American) media groups, I’m going to include quite a few British publications. There is also an American on the BBC board.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
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    5 months ago

    🔺💲 New York Times

    ◾ Owned by The New York Times Company

    It’s a publicly traded company with most of it being privately held, that owns a multitude of media types:

    Since September 25, 1997, the company has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NYT. From April 27, 1967, until January 13, 1969, the company’s Class A common stock traded over the counter. From January 14, 1969, until September 24, 1997, the shares were traded on the American Stock Exchange. There are 2 categories of stock, Class A (publicly traded) and Class B (held privately—largely (over 90% through The 1997 Trust) by the descendants of Adolph Ochs, who purchased The New York Times newspaper in 1896.

    ◾ CEO and publisher is A.G. Slzberger

    A.G. Slzberger

    Arthur Gregg “Dash” Sulzberger (born August 5, 1980) is an American journalist serving as the chairman of The New York Times Company and publisher of its flagship newspaper, The New York Times.

    Sulzberger is a fourth-generation descendant of Adolph Ochs, who bought the New York Times in 1896. The Times has been managed and published by Adolph Ochs’s family since that date.

    Sulzberger attended Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Brown University, graduating in 2003 with a major in political science. At Brown, Sulzberger worked briefly for The Brown Daily Herald as a contributing writer.

    ◾ Board of directors

    As of February 2024:

    • A. G. Sulzberger, chairman of The New York Times Company and publisher of The New York Times
    • Amanpal S. Bhutani, CEO of GoDaddy
    • Manuel Bronstein, CPO of Roblox
    • Beth Brooke, former global vice chair of public policy for Ernst & Young
    • Rachel Glaser, CFO of Etsy
    • Arthur Golden, best-selling author of Memoirs of a Geisha
    • Hays N. Golden, managing director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab and Education Lab
    • Meredith Kopit Levien, president and CEO of The New York Times Company
    • Brian P. McAndrews, former president, CEO, and chairman of Pandora Media
    • David Perpich, publisher of The Athletic and Wirecutter
    • John W. Rogers Jr., founder and chairman of Ariel Investments
    • Anuradha B. Subramanian, CFO of Bumble
    • Rebecca Van Dyck, former COO for Reality Labs at Meta Platforms

    Source

    This is their official page for the board of directors: https://www.nytco.com/board-of-directors/