After
a week in which both The
Boston Globe and The Washington Post were purchased by new owners, the
publisher of The New York Times emphatically declared Wednesday night that the
publication was not for sale.
In
a statement, the publisher, Arthur
Sulzberger Jr., who is also chairman of The New York Times Company, said
that he and Michael Golden, the vice chairman, had spoken to Donald E. Graham,
chairman and chief executive of The Washington
Post Company, about his decision to sell The Post and some smaller
newspapers and stressed that The Times did not plan to follow a similar path. “Will our family seek to sell The Times? The answer to that is no. The Times is not for sale, and the trustees of the Ochs-Sulzberger Trust and the rest of the family are united in our commitment to work together with the company’s board, senior management and employees to lead The New York Times forward into our global and digital future,” the statement said.
