(NY) Times Chief Is to Retire at Year-End
Janet L. Robinson, who served as chief executive of The New York Times Company during a time of rapid change and uncertainty in the newspaper industry, will step down at the end of the month, the company announced Thursday.
“It is with mixed emotions that I write to let you know that I am retiring from The New York Times Company,” Ms. Robinson, who has held the post since 2004, wrote in an e-mail to the staff.
The announcement caught many by surprise — both inside and outside the company. Like other newspaper companies, The Times has weathered a wrenching few years because of the recession and because of the continuing migration of advertisers and consumers online.
While the company has struggled financially, The New York Times newspaper has been particularly aggressive under Ms. Robinson’s leadership in creating new digital products and has recently built an online subscription model that has performed much better than anticipated. Ms. Robinson is widely credited with a previous transformation at the company: remaking The Times as a national newspaper in the 1990s.
full: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/business/media/janet-l-robinson-to-retire-from-the-new-york-times.html
