The New York Times Company (NYT)

Newspaper and digital publisher, 43% union. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 2 of the 39 Communication Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The New York Times Company’s approximately 6,000 full-time equivalent employees, more than 3,000 of them journalists, produce news and digital products, read as one publishing pattern.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 33% now, 56% at the end of 2027, 64% at the end of 2028, 66% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 66% desk work, 23% people work and 11% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 35% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 48% becomes checking a model's work and 15% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

6,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (full-time equivalent). Employees are primarily located in the United States, by the filing, with no count by country.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 6,000 full-time equivalent employees, which includes more than 3,000 involved in our journalism operations.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 6,000 full-time equivalent employees, more than 3,000 in journalism; about 43% represented by unions; primarily in the United States.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• News Corporation (NWS, 21,700 employees)31% now, 64% by 2028
• USA TODAY Co. Inc. (TDAY, 9,540 employees)32% now, 64% by 2028
• John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (WLYB, 4,500 employees)33% now, 64% by 2028
• McGraw Hill, Inc. (MH, 4,400 employees)33% now, 64% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

41 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 41 times: advancing machine learning and AI applications across the business, AI companies among its competitors for audience and licensees, and AI among its risks.

• “In 2026, we plan to continue prioritizing these areas, with a focus on strengthening our data management infrastructure, enhancing the platforms that power our multiproduct digital bundle, and advancing machine-learning and artificial intelligence ("AI") applications across our business.”
• “We compete for audience, subscribers, advertising and licensees against a wide variety of companies, including content creators, providers and distributors; news aggregators; search engines; social media platforms; streaming services; and AI companies, certain of which have attracted and any of which may further attract audiences, subscribers, advertisers and/or licensees to their platforms and...”
• “Our news and lifestyle products compete for audience, subscriptions, advertising, affiliate referrals and licensees with other providers of U.S. and global news and lifestyle information, from companies such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CNN, BBC News, The Guardian, Financial Times, ESPN and other general interest and vertical media; and with customized news feeds, news aggre...”
• “Our competitors include content creators, providers and distributors; news aggregators; search engines; social media platforms; streaming services; and AI companies.”
• “These factors include: our ability to continue delivering a breadth of high-quality journalism and content that is interesting and relevant to our audience; our ability to sustain and grow audience engagement with our products; our reputation and brand strength relative to those of our competitors; the popularity, usefulness, ease of use, format, performance, reliability and value of our produc...”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20211median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 202321median 1
• Fiscal 202438median 4
• Fiscal 202541median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The headcount is a full-time equivalent count.
• The U.S. share is null: the filing says primarily in the United States without a count.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000071691-26-000011, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.