Founded in 1896 and headquartered in New York City, New York, The New York Times Company (NYT) operates as a diversified media company that comprises newspapers, Internet businesses and other investments.

The company ended second-quarter 2024 with roughly 10.84 million subscribers across its print and digital products, including roughly 10.21 million digital-only subscribers. Of the 10.21 million subscribers, about 4.83 million were bundle and multiproduct subscribers. There was a net increase of 300,000 in digital-only subscribers compared with the first quarter of 2024.

On Feb 1, 2022, The New York Times Company acquired The Athletic Media Company, a global digital subscription-based sports media business that provides national and local coverage of more than 200 clubs and teams in the United States and globally. As a result of this buyout, beginning first-quarter 2022, the company has two reportable segments: The New York Times Group (95% of 2023 revenues) and The Athletic (5%).

The company generates revenues primarily from subscriptions and advertising. Subscription revenues consist of revenues from subscriptions to digital and print products (which include news product, as well as The Athletic and Games, Cooking, Audm and Wirecutter products), and single-copy as well as bulk sales of print products. Advertising revenues are mainly from advertisers, namely, technology, financial and luxury goods firms, promoting products, services or brands on digital platforms in the form of display ads, audio and video, and in print in the form of column-inch ads.

Other revenues primarily consist of revenues from licensing, Wirecutter affiliate referrals, commercial printing, retail commerce, student subscription sponsorship program, live events business, and television and film.