Inside The New York Times fight to defend the brand (with CEO Meredith Kopit Levien) | Summit 2025
About Meredith
- President & CEO of The New York Times Company since 2020.
- Led NYT's transformation into a diversified global news and lifestyle powerhouse.
- Oversaw launch and growth of top products: Games (Wordle), The Athletic, Cooking, Wirecutter.
- Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
- Serves on the boards of Instacart and The New York Times Company.
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From attacks by President Trump to active lawsuits against Microsoft and OpenAI, The New York Times is engaged in a fierce fight to preserve the future of independent journalism. It also keeps building a multi-faceted, excellence-obsessed brand with more users for games, recipes and podcasts than ever before. President and CEO Meredith Kopit Levien joins Bob Safian live on stage at the Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco to explore The Times business model, how news coverage relates to the organization’s fast-growing lifestyle products, and the impact of AI as a threat and a tool.
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