Janet L. Robinson
| Janet L. Robinson | |
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Janet L. Robinson in 2008
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| CEO New York Times Company | |
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In office December 2004 – December 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Russell T. Lewis |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. |
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| Born | June 11, 1950 ,Fall River, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Salve Regina University |
| Occupation | Former President and Chief Executive Officer of The New York Times Company |
Janet L. Robinson (born June 11, 1950) is an American publishing executive who became president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company on December 27, 2004 and retired from that position on December 31, 2011.
Robinson received a B.A. degree in English from Salve Regina College, Newport, Rhode Island, where she graduated cum laude in 1972. In 1996, she completed the Executive Education Program at Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Robinson was presented with an honorary Doctorate of Business Administration degree from Salve Regina University in May 1998. She was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Pace University and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in May 2006.
Before joining the Times Company, she was a public school teacher in Newport, Rhode Island, and Somerset, Massachusetts.
She joined the Times Company in June 1983 as an account executive at Tennis magazine. Robinson was national resort and travel manager of Golf Digest/Tennis in May 1985 and the advertising director of Tennis magazine from September 1987 until August 1990.
Robinson served as group senior vice president for the advertising sales and marketing unit of company's Women's Magazine Group (which has since been sold) since January 1992, vice president and director of advertising from May until December 1994, senior vice president of the group from January 1995 until 1996, and she was senior vice president of advertising. In this capacity, Robinson was also responsible for overall advertising sales at the newspaper.
From February 2001 until January 2004, she served as senior vice president and held the position as president and general manager of The New York Times newspaper from 1996 until 2004.
On December 27, 2004, Robinson was named president and C.E.O. of The New York Times Company and elected as a director of the Company.
Robinson unexpectedly announced her year-end retirement from the Times on December 15, 2011 after twenty-eight years with the company. Her severance package valued at about $23 million was disclosed on March 9, 2012 in the company's regulatory filing. The reasons behind her retirement were undisclosed and fostered questions by business analysts and observers suggesting her departure resulted from personal conflicts with Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
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