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The New York Times (as

U.S. center-left

Owned byOwned by The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), a publicly traded company controlled by the Ochs-Sulzberger family. A family trust holds about 95% of the Class B shares, which elect roughly 70% of the board. A.G. Sulzberger is publisher and chairman.
FundingMostly digital and print subscriptions, plus advertising and licensing. The Times reported about 13.1 million total subscribers and $712.2 million in quarterly revenue in Q1 2026. Its other products, including Games, Cooking, Wirecutter and The Athletic, also bring in subscription revenue.
On the administrationbroadly critical

Background

The Times was founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones. Adolph Ochs bought it in 1896, and his descendants have run it since. The Sulzberger family keeps control through Class B shares that carry far more voting power than the publicly traded Class A shares, even though it owns a small share of the company's total equity. The paper has won well over 100 Pulitzer Prizes. It also published the Pentagon Papers in 1971, and it has faced criticism for pre-Iraq-war reporting on weapons of mass destruction and for Walter Duranty's Soviet coverage in the 1930s. Under recent leadership it grew mainly through digital subscriptions and bundled products, and it bought The Athletic in 2022. Critics on the right say its news coverage leans liberal. Critics on the left say it is too deferential to institutions or too "both-sides" in some coverage. In the second Trump term, the Times sued the Pentagon in December 2025 over its press-credential rules, and a federal judge ruled for the paper in March 2026. President Trump also filed a $15 billion defamation suit against the Times in September 2025. Its news coverage of the administration is generally adversarial, and it continues to run opinion columnists across the political spectrum.

Sources

  1. New York Times Co. – Form DEF 14A (2026 proxy statement), SEC
  2. Who Owns the New York Times? The Sulzberger Family Trust and A.G. Sulzberger (2026) – FourWeekMBA
  3. Judge sides with New York Times in challenge to Pentagon policy limiting reporters' access – PBS NewsHour
  4. New York Times sues Pentagon over rules limiting access for media – Al Jazeera
  5. Trump files $15 billion lawsuit against New York Times over campaign coverage – NBC News

Profile compiled 2026-10-19; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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