*1 The Post and the Times had co-owned the IHT since the 1960s. Return to text. *2 In 2003, Sulzberger made an offhand offer to buy The Wall Street Journal from its owners, the Bancroft family, which shocked even executives at his own company, who worried that he hadn’t run the numbers. Return to text. *3 The Times has approximately one thousand editorial employees (editors, reporters, photographers, designers, and so on) on its payroll and another two hundred nonprofessional staffers, including news clerks. Return to text. *4 A full year later, the Times’s travails had so infused popular culture, they were the subject of an offhand joke in a May 2004 episode of The Simpsons, in which an elementary school reporter gets in trouble for datelining a dispatch from Baghdad when he was actually in Basra. Return to text. *5 In 2004, the Los Angeles Times won five Pulitzer Prizes. Return to text. *6 The Taylors sold The Boston Globe to the New York Times Company in 1993. Return to text. *7 Perhaps not coincidentally, two of the country’s other three great newspapers, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, are also family owned.
