Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Media Summit 2010 Thursday, March 11th 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Keynote - Joint Appearance Janet L. Robinson, President and Chief Executive Officer, The New York Times Company Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., Chairman, The New York Times Company & Publisher, The New York Times Interview by: James E. Ellis, Assistant Managing Editor, Bloomberg BusinessWeek Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. was named chairman of The New York Times Company on October 16, 1997. As the Company’s senior executive, he is responsible for its long-term business strategy. Mr. Sulzberger, who became publisher of The New York Times in 1992, continues to run the Company’s flagship enterprise on a day-to-day basis. Over the past decade, he has shaped and implemented innovative print, broadcast and online initiatives that are enabling the Company to compete successfully in the 21st century global media marketplace. These include: • Transforming The Times into a national newspaper; • Developing a major Times company presence on the Internet, which now includes NYTimes.com, a top five global news and information site, Boston.com, About.com and IHT.com; • Acquiring the International Herald Tribune; • Becoming a minority partner in New England Sports Ventures, which includes the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park and 80% of the New England Sports Network During Mr. Sulzberger’s tenure as publisher, The Times has earned 39 Pulitzer Prizes and provided its readers with innumerable examples of momentous journalism such as its breakthrough series “How Race is Lived in America,” its internationally acclaimed coverage of the September 11 terrorist attack in a “A Nation Challenged” and “Portraits of Grief,” “Class Matters,” a 11-part series exploring class in American society, “Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts,” an expose of the Bush Administration’s use of wiretaps and “China Rises,” a four-part, multimedia series. It should also be noted that The New York Times Company has been repeatedly cited for its commitment to excellence, innovation and social responsibility. Before coming to The Times, Mr. Sulzberger was a reporter with The Raleigh (N.C.) Times from 1974 to 1976, and a London correspondent for The Associated Press from 1976 to 1978. He joined The Times in 1978 as a correspondent in its Washington bureau. He moved to New York as a metro reporter in 1981 and was appointed assistant metro editor later that year. From 1983 to 1987, he worked in a variety of business departments, including production and corporate planning. In January 1987, he was named assistant publisher and, a year later, deputy publisher, overseeing the news and business departments. In both capacities, he was involved in planning The Times's automated color printing and distribution facilities in Edison, N.J., and at College Point in Queens, N.Y., as well as the creation of the six-section color newspaper. Mr. Sulzberger played a central role in the development of the Times Square Business Improvement District, officially launched in January 1992, serving as the first chairman of that civic organization. He also helped found and serves as chairman of the New York City Outward Bound Center. Mr. Sulzberger earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Tufts University in 1974. He is also a 1985 graduate of the Harvard Business School's Program for Management Development. Janet L. Robinson, President and Chief Executive Officer, The New York Times Company: Janet L. Robinson became president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company on December 27, 2004. As C.E.O., Ms. Robinson has primary responsibility for overseeing and coordinating all of the Company's operations and business units and for working closely with the chairman to chart the future direction of the Company. Previously, she had served as chief operating officer and executive vice president since February 2004. From February 2001 until January 2004, she served as senior vice president, newspaper operations for The New York Times Company. In this role, she led the operations of all of the Company's newspaper properties, which include The New York Times, The Boston Globe, the International Herald Tribune and the regional newspapers. She also held the position of president and general manager of The New York Times newspaper from 1996 until 2004. Ms. Robinson was elected a director of the Company in December 2004. During her tenure, Ms. Robinson has directed the acceleration of advertising and circulation revenue growth at all properties and the improvement in profit margins through expense controls, operating efficiencies and pricing initiatives. She has overseen the completion of The Times's conversion to color and section expansion, the creation and implementation of the national expansion of the newspaper and the transition from an era of print journalism to one in which The New York Times Company distributes news and information in an increasing array of new mediums. Prior to joining the newspaper, Ms. Robinson served as group senior vice president for the advertising sales and marketing unit of The New York Times Company Women's Magazine Group (which has since been sold) from January 1992, and vice president of the group since September 1990. From June 1983 until August 1990, she held several sales management positions with Golf Digest and Tennis Magazine that were formerly owned by The New York Times Company. Before joining the Times Company in June 1983, Ms. Robinson was a public school teacher in Newport, Rhode Island, and Somerset, Massachusetts. Ms. Robinson received a B.A. degree in English from Salve Regina College, Newport, RI, where she graduated cum laude in 1972. She was presented with an honorary Doctorate of Business Administration degree from Salve Regina University in May 1998. In 1996, she completed the Executive Education Program at Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. Ms. Robinson is vice chair of the board of the Liberty Science Center and serves on the boards of the Newspaper Association of America and the Presidential Board of Trustees of Salve Regina University. She serves on the board of New England Sports Ventures, and in 2008, she joined the advisory board for New York Women in Communications (NYWICI). Ms. Robinson is also a member of the Leadership Committee for The Lincoln Center Consolidated Corporate Fund and a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, where she is chairman of the planning and finance committee and a member of the investment committee. James E. Ellis, Assistant Managing Editor, Bloomberg BusinessWeek: James E. Ellis was named assistant managing editor of small business for Bloomberg BusinessWeek in December 2007. Prior to that he held a number of positions including Chief of Correspondents and senior editor. Ellis joined Bloomberg BusinessWeek in 1980 as a correspondent in the Chicago bureau and was promoted to Bureau Chief in Atlanta in 1982. In September 1984, he returned to Chicago as Bureau Chief. In 1992 he was promoted to senior writer in New York and later edited special projects. Prior to joining the magazine, he held positions as staff reporter and financial writer for the St. Louis Post Dispatch. From 1991-1993, Ellis was co-chairman of the Business Writers Task Force of the National Association of Black Journalists. He also served on the board of advisers of the 1992 PBS television series, Made in America. In 1995, he was a recipient of the Black Achievers in Industry Award from the Harlem YMCA. He served on the Diversity Advisory Council of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Bloomberg BusinessWeek's former parent, from 1993-1999. Ellis currently serves on the Board of Visitors of the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Board of Advisors of the Business Journalism Initiative at UNC’s School of Journalism. He is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, the Asian American Journalists Association, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, and the diversity initiative of the Magazine Publishers of America. From 1996-1999, Ellis was a regular commentator on CNBC’s Bull Session, PBS’s This Week in Business, and NBC’s NBC News at Sunrise. He is currently a rotating business commentator on ABC’s World News This Morning and hosts a weekly podcast, “The BusinessWeek.” Ellis is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He has been a Herbert Davenport Fellow in Financial Writing at the University of Missouri and attended the Wharton Seminar for Business Journalists at the University of Pennsylvania. He also is a graduate of the McGraw-Hill General Management Program.