The New York Times: brands it owns and its ownership tree
The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is a publicly listed company headquartered in New York, New York, United States that owns 4 consumer brands across 2 categories, and has 3 recorded transactions.[1][2]
The New York Times has published since 1851 and is one of the few newspapers to have made the transition to digital subscriptions successfully, with more than ten million of them. It is still controlled by the Ochs-Sulzberger family through a dual share structure.
The New York Times owns 4 consumer brands tracked here across 2 top-level categories; the largest is media & entertainment with 3 brands.[1]
3 recorded acquisitions, 3 of them completed since 2015; disclosed US-dollar deal values total $575 million.
1 of its brands originated outside United States.
The New York Times financial history
Headline figures from The New York Times's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2020–2025.
Revenue moved from $1.78bn to $2.82bn, an average of 9.6% a year (calculated).
Source: SEC XBRL company facts. A dash means the company did not report that line in a form we could read. Figures for a year can be restated in a later filing; the latest filing's number is shown.
Everything The New York Times owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
The New York Times Company acquired The Athletic Media Company, a subscription sports site covering clubs and teams in the United States and abroad, for an all-cash price of $550.0 million funded from cash on hand. It was large enough to change how the company reports itself: from the first quarter of 2022 the Times has had two reportable segments, The New York Times Group and The Athletic.
The New York Times Company bought Wordle from its creator Josh Wardle, months after the daily word game had become a global habit shared through grids of coloured squares. The Times has never disclosed the price. The game joined the Games portfolio alongside the Crossword and Spelling Bee, and the company keeps it free, treating it as a way to build an audience it can convert to subscriptions later.
The New York Times Company bought the product review sites The Wirecutter and The Sweethome for $25.0 million, its first move into affiliate commerce as a revenue line. The two sites were later folded into a single Wirecutter brand, which the company began selling as a standalone subscription in 2021. The $25.0 million covered both sites; only Wirecutter survives as a brand.
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