Social Responsibility Programs Reaching out to the Community

Social Responsibility Programs reaching out to the community. Values that guide our practices. TABLE OF CONTENTS Message from the Chairman and Publisher 2 Introduction from the President and C.E.O. 3 Core Purpose and Core Values 4 Environmental Policies 5 The New York Times Company Foundation 6 The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund 7 The New York Times Media Group 7 New England Media Group 10 Regional Media Group 12 Broadcast Media Group 17 Composition of The New York Times Company 22 ● Message from the Chairman and Publisher Winston Churchill once said, “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” Giving is among the crucial endeavors of The New York Times Company. It is rooted in our core purpose of enhancing society –– whether in our journalism or in such initiatives as those described in this brochure. We have a long history of trying to help our neighbors. Since 1912, our Neediest Cases Fund has used the pages of The New York Times to raise money for individuals and families contending with the most desperate circumstances. That first year, the Fund collected $3,630.88 from 117 contributors. More than 90 years later, the Fund provided more than $7 million to seven social service agencies serving the New York metropolitan area. These organizations are helping thousands cope with a wide range of critical social, economic and health issues. But the Neediest Cases Fund is only one of our company’s many community outreach programs, a selection of which is represented in these pages. We are proud to be able to work with so many dedicated organizations and individuals to enrich and sometimes transform the lives of our fellow Americans. ARTHUR SULZBERGER, JR. Mr. Sulzberger is chairman of The New York Times Company and publisher of The New York Times. 2 ● Introduction from the President and Chief Executive Officer It is the firm belief of the Times Company that an organization that is in the position to recognize the needs of a community has a social imperative to help address those needs. The newspapers, radio, TV stations and Web sites owned by The New York Times Company are committed to using their resources to illuminate the news events and social issues that affect Americans across the country. The Times Company is dedicated to the highest standards of journalism and ethical business conduct. Its Core Purpose, Core Values, Business Ethics Policy and Rules of the Road guide the company in all matters as it sets goals, reacts to change and fulfills its obligations. These principles are reflected in every aspect of the company’s activities, from its environmentally-friendly business practices to its immediate response to world disasters, like the Southeast Asia tsunami of 2004 and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, helping the company remain true to its ideals in a world of constant change. JANET L. ROBINSON Ms. Robinson is president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company. 3 ● Core Purpose @ The core purpose of The New York Times Company is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment. ● Core Values @ Content of the highest quality and integrity — this is the basis for our reputation and the means by which we fulfill the public trust and our customers’ expectations. @ Fair treatment of employees based on respect, accountability and standards of excellence. @ Creating long-term shareholder value through investment and constancy of purpose. @ Good corporate citizenship. 4 ● Environmental Policies The New York Times Company is strongly committed to protecting the environment in all of the many communities in which it operates. Current practices include: @ Recycled newsprint used in newspapers. The average recycled fiber content for newsprint used by the company is approximately 27 percent. The company works with the Northeast Recycling Council to encourage the newsprint industry to make much greater use of recycled fiber. @ Recycle waste paper in company offices, pressrooms and printing plants. @ Require newsprint suppliers using virgin fiber to utilize a range of silviculture techniques and best practices including regeneration surveys, site preparation, the planting of traditional saplings and aerial and terrestrial seeding. One of the company’s major suppliers plants approximately 60 million saplings annually. @ The company’s major suppliers have committed to certify their forestlands to a sustainable forest management standard. This certification process requires independent experts to audit the suppliers’ performance in maintaining, developing and ensuring the sustainability of the forests. @ The company’s newspapers use soy-based inks in the color sections, which also helps to protect the environment. Waste ink is recycled or disposed of as non- hazardous material. @ The company has completed web width reduction initiatives at a majority of its newspapers. Decreasing the size of the printed sheet from 54 inches to 50 inches (that is, one inch per page) significantly lowered newsprint consumption. Additionally, The Times newspaper will move from a traditional “broadsheet” size of 54 inches to a 48-inch web width for all editions of the paper across the country. This change, which will further reduce newsprint consumption, will be introduced in 2008. @ The company has converted substantially all of its print sites to lighter-weight newsprint to reduce newsprint consumption. 5 ● organized a citywide Immigrant Family Literacy Alliance in The New York Times cooperation with the Altman Foundation, the Literacy Company Foundation Assistance Center and the New York Department of Youth and Community Development. This consortium of public and private agencies has leveraged the Times Company Foundation’s initial The New York Times Company Foundation conducts a range of grant of $50,000 into nearly $3 million, which supports literacy philanthropic activities in New York, in Boston — as The Boston instruction for some 2,000 immigrant families starting in Globe Foundation – and in other communities that are home to September 2006. Times Company business units. Summer Jobs @ In response to the decreasing number of Grants @ Each year, the foundation makes approximately government-sponsored summer jobs for needy teenagers in $5 million in grants to domestic organizations in five fields: New York City, the Times Neediest Cases Fund has created and journalism, education, culture, environment and service. Each year, the foundation makes Journalism Initiatives @ The foundation sponsors journalism immersion courses to bring expertise to writers and editors in approximately $5 million in grants to subjects on the cutting edge of the news. Examples include domestic organizations. Islam in America, Two Health Care Revolutions and Wind, Water and Weather. A different initiative, Campus Weblines, offers the instruction and software needed for students to create school supports a Summer Jobs Program. For four years, it has newspapers online. provided jobs and training for 1,000 disadvantaged teenagers. The jobs are created by the seven social service agencies that The New York Times College Scholarship Program @ Working receive funds from the annual Neediest Cases campaign. with Times editors, writers and managers as jurors, each year Typically, the teenagers work as mentors and teacher aides, the foundation selects about 20 Times scholars — New York City helping thousands of younger children. The 2006 program high school students who have overcome exceptional hardship includes a pilot program to test whether part-time jobs during to achieve academic excellence. Each student receives a four- the school year can keep otherwise disconnected youth in year college scholarship, mentoring and summer employment. school and out of trouble. Funds for eight $7,500 annual college scholarships for each of Arts in Education / “Making Room for the Arts” @ four years are provided by the foundation. Funds for additional The foundation conducts sessions for New York City public scholarships of $7,500 a year for each of four years are provided school superintendents and principals demonstrating how to by an endowment supported by contributions from Times maintain programs for the arts while meeting the new readers. The program works with colleges to provide students with requirements for math and English. the financing needed for tuition, room, board and other expenses. Adolph S. Ochs School @ The foundation maintains a special The Next Step @ This booklet was created by the foundation for relationship with this Manhattan public school for kindergarten armed services veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq to through eighth-grade students, P.S. 111. It was named after the help them find benefits, entitlements and services available for publisher who created the modern New York Times. Support for veterans in the tristate area. the school has included rebuilding the library and establishing library programs, as well as bringing in outside arts and Immigrant Family Literacy Alliance @ In 2005, the foundation science programs. Far Left @ Dance Africa events at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Left @ El Museo del Barrio’s Three Kings’ Day Parade. 6 Matching Gifts @ The foundation administers and funds the ● program, which matches gifts of full-time employees, directors The New York Times and retirees to qualifying organizations. The match is $1.50 for Media Group each $1 contributed, up to an annual limit of $3,000 in gifts each year. The foundation created

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