At the end of a week that saw the Graham family selling
The Washington Post to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and the Sulzberger family -- owners of
The New York Times -- selling
the
Boston Globe to Boston Red Sox owner John Henry, rest assured that the
Times itself is not for sale. That's the word from Chairman/Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and
his cousin, Vice Chairman Michael Golden, writes James B. Stewart in the Times' "Common Sense" column.
But being "one of the last major family-run newspapers" does raise the question
that eventually led the Grahams to sell the
Post: "Would
The Times be better off both journalistically and financially under different ownership?" Despite the
Times
being profitable, its family ownership now is like "a minnow in a sea of sharks" compared to the likes of Bezos and the
Post, Murdoch and the
Wall Street Journal, not to mention
online giants. There's talk of Google or Bloomberg bringing symmetries to the
Times down the road, Stewart notes.
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