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“It is with mixed emotions that I write to let you know that I am retiring from the New York Times Company,” Robinson told staffers in an email, The New York Times reports.  

Sulzberger will serve as chief executive, while Robinson, 61, will stay on with the Times as a paid consultant for one year.

The company said that it would begin an internal and external search to find a new chief executive.

Robinson joined The New York Times Company in 1983, becoming CEO in 2004.

Along with The New York Times, the company owns The Boston Globe and The International Herald Tribune.

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According to Boston Globe columnist Robert Gavin, a team of investors and management specialists are prepared to make a bid to purchase The Globe from The New York Times Co.  Yesterday Wellesley, MA entrepreneur Aaron Kushner announced that his group, the 2100 Trust, will soon propose an offer to acquire The Boston Globe, Boston.com, and Worcester Telegram & Gazette — all properties of The Times Co.’s New England Media Group.

The Times Co. bought The Boston Globe in 1993 for $1.1 billion.  Following a year scouting for potential buyers, the company pulled the paper off the market after receiving bids of roughly $35 million.  After hearing that low-ball offer, many would be led to believe The Boston Globe has been a bad investment, however a statement released by The Times Co. spokeswoman Abbe Serphos may cause you to think otherwise:

“We do not comment on rumors of acquisitions or divestitures. The Boston Globe is an important part of The New York Times Company. The Globe has made excellent progress and is on solid financial footing. Its continued digital and print progress signals a strong future.”

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MediaJobsDaily: Mediabistro.com’s first ever jobs report finds that there are more companies hiring for fewer positions on the site’s job boards in 2009.

DailyFinance: What are the dirtiest media cafeterias in New York? Reuters, MSNBC and Hearst have racked up the most points for city health department violations, according to this quick survey.

Boston Business Journal: Former Boston Globe publisher P. Steven Ainsley stands to earn $1.4 million as part of his separation from The New York Times Co. at the end of last year.

Chicago Business: Playboy has named a new photo editor, replacing 40-year veteran Gary Cole.

Gawker: The New York Times is seeking a reporter to cover the private school beat.

Folio: The revolution in magazines will come this summer.

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The New York Times Co. said in November that it planned to lay off 25 people as part of its plan to move its news service, which edits Times stories for the wire, to the Florida paper it owns, The Gainesville Sun. The staff at the Sun are unionized and their salaries are cheaper, the Times reported, making it cheaper to run the service out of their offices.

But as the guild fought over seniority of those Times-ers facing layoffs earlier this month, the union also mentioned that it was in talks with the company to keep the news service in New York. The guild said it had offered the paper a plan that would save nearly $900,000 a year and 28 guild jobs.

But as Kelly said in his column today, “Last-minute talks between the Newspaper Guild and the New York Times Co….have apparently collapsed.” The Times Co. gave the guild a chance to accept its “best offer,” Kelly said.

“The hardball tactics being used by management, which had been seeking a wage reduction to just over $50,000 annually, caused this to be unworkable,” guild president William O’Meara told Kelly.

Clock stops –New York Post

Previously: After Arbitrator’s Ruling, Layoffs To Come To Times Later This Week

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In a holiday gift to the newspaper publishers, analyst John Janedis told investors that the stocks were hot because the ad market for papers seems to be “improving more quickly than we previously anticipated,” Reuters reported. This is great news for the Times Co. and Gannett, which publishes USA Today, but is it true?

The problem, says Reuters media reporter Robert MacMillan, is that publishers like the Times Co. and Gannett have managed to improve their bottom line more with cost-cutting than increased ad revenues. They still struggle to make money from a dying print product while not really being able to capitalize on their online market. “The newspaper stock recovery, as a result, is one that will benefit investors in the short term and does not necessarily indicate confidence in publishers’ long-term futures,” MacMillan concluded.

So now here’s something newspaper publishers can request for Christmas: a plan that will save them in the long term.

Gannett, NY Times rise on analyst holiday gift –Reuters

Previously: New York Times Co. Reports Ad Revenue Down, Circ Revenue Up In Q3

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This year, those companies were imperiled, struggling to survive like many other companies around the world. But as print media disputed declarations that its days were numbered, these once-great companies that made their money from print pubs were fighting hard to keep their heads above water. In order to do that they made some decisions — like bringing in new investors, closing publications and selling them off. It was in no way a big year for media deals, but there were a few. Below, our list of the biggest business stories to come out of the New York media world this year.

Bloomberg LP Buys BusinessWeek

After seeking a buyer for BusinessWeek for most of the fall, publisher McGraw-Hill finally cut a deal with Bloomberg LP, which snapped up the magazine in October. The result? Bloomberg BusinessWeek, a new vision of the mag that has a new editor and a smaller staff.

After the jump, Carlos Slim invests in the Times, classical music and the Comcast-NBCU deal.

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Not only that, but there might even be some silver lining: revenues and profits have gone up for the company’s Internet division, although once Arthur Sulzberger Jr. decides to go all Rupert Murdoch on his free content, who knows if that will remain the case.

And there is more good news. Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson said today at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference that although ad revenues are down, the pace of their decline has waned for the first time this year. Robinson said the company expects print ad revenues to drop 25 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, while online ad revenues should increase by 10 percent.

Read More: Prediction: The New York Times Will Survive 2009 –Big Money

End Times –The Atlantic

Previously: Times‘ Keller: Within Weeks Of Decision On Pay Wall, New York Times Staff Cuts May Come As Early As Next Week

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WebNewser: NYMag.com announced today that it plans to use Blinkx, Metacafe, Sling Media, YouTube and 1Cast to expand distribution of its original videos, with the partner sites selling advertising against the fare for a revenue share.

New York Times: The New York Times Co. has decided not to sell Massachusetts paper The Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

Financial Times: Bloomberg LP is planning to “aggressively” seek out new acquisitions following its recent purchase of BusinessWeek.

Washington Post: Howard Kurtz profiles New York magazine editor Adam Moss.

Gawker: WWD‘s Stephanie Smith is leaving the media beat to fill Corynne Steindler‘s spot at Page Six.

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24 percent of the union membership reportedly signed the petition, but only 20 percent is required for a recall election.

Totten led the guild through contentious negotiations with the Globe‘s owners, The New York Times Co., earlier this year. But although the union membership initially voted to reject the Times Co.’s proposed cuts, resulting in a 23 percent unilateral pay cut for all its members, the guild eventually approved a second offer, which seemed very similar to the first.

Totten first ran into trouble with the union in September, when the petition to remove him from office first started circulating around the Globe. Although the Globe is no longer in danger of being sold off by the Times Co., now its biggest union faces uncertainty about its leadership as we head towards the New Year.

Globe petition seeks to remove Guild President –Boston Herald

Earlier: Boston Globe‘s Largest Union’s Members Seek To Remove Union Leadership

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The strategy in question would be the one designed by Blue State Digital, an online consulting agency that implemented a “relationship ladder” schema for their work with Barack Obama‘s presidential campaign, and is now working with Vogue to identify new ways for the magazine to interact with its audience.

While it might seem like a strange leap to go from political canvasing to couture outreach, Blue State is confident what worked for Obama can work for Anna Wintour.

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TVNewser: Take the poll: Who is the next Oprah?

MediaJobsDaily: The Washington Post Co. laid off staffers today from washingtongpost.com.

Reuters: Hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners, which now owns a 14.64 percent stake in The New York Times Co., cut its stake from 16.38 percent in September.

Guardian: Rupert Murdoch‘s son James sees a smaller role for newspapers than for TV in the future. “In the business of ideas, which is the business that we are in, we do think journalism plays a role, and we do think there are business models there that will make a lot of sense, albeit perhaps not at the scale of some of our broadcasting businesses and other entertainment businesses,” he said. “Is it going to be as big a role? No. Structurally, television is vastly more profitable and a big opportunity.”

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What’s more, the Times‘ News Service, which edits Times stories for the wire, announced that it plans to lay off at least 25 employees next year as it moves the service to the Florida paper owned by The New York Times Co., The Gainesville Sun. The staff at the Sun are unionized and their salaries are cheaper, the Times reported, making it cheaper to run the service out of the Florida paper’s offices.

The News Service layoffs were not included in the 100 staffers to be cut by year’s end, who will be made up in part by voluntary buyouts. The Times management offered buyouts to its staff last month and said that if they did not get enough they would turn to layoffs. The buyout deadline is fast approaching, so we’ll keep you posted as the story develops in the next few weeks.

New York Times News Service to Cut Jobs and Relocate –New York Times

Earlier: Memo: Times To Layoff 100 Newsroom Staffers

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Last night, New York public radio station WNYC threw a gala at Gotham Hall to celebrate its recent acquisition of New York’s classical radio station WQXR and honor its former owner, The New York Times Co.

Hosted by Alec Baldwin, the evening featured performances by folksinger Judy Collins and opera diva Deborah Voigt. David Sanger, a New York Times correspondent and host of the “Washington Report” on WQXR — and grandson of the station’s founder Elliott Sanger — presented the Times Co. with an award, accepted by Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., commemorating the company’s stewardship of WQXR since 1944.

Later, Baldwin announced that the winner of the evening’s raffle would get a radio — actually, an Internet radio tuned to WQXR. “The New York Times got a piece of glass, for the millions and millions of dollars they’ve coughed up,” he said. “A piece of glass. The winner of the raffle gets a radio.”

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PRNewser: Former FishbowlDC founding editor Garrett Graff, now the editor of the Washingtonian, talks about working in PR and then making the jump to journalism.

All Things Digital: Today, Mcgraw-Hill told investors that its sale of BusinessWeek netted the company $5.9 million after taxes.

Worcester Telegram & Gazette: Ralph D. Crowley, Jr., who is looking to buy the Worcester Telegram & Gazette from The New York Times Co., says negotiations might be wrapped up in two weeks.

New York Times: A closer look at Comcast‘s bid for a majority stake in NBC Universal.

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