The New York Times Company announced today that Meredith Kopit Levien
has been promoted to the position of chief revenue officer, effective
immediately. Ms. Kopit Levien will add oversight of the company’s
consumer business to her existing responsibilities as executive vice
president and head of advertising. She will lead the groups charged with
the generation of all advertising and subscription revenue from The
Times’s multiplatform products and services. She will continue to report
to President and CEO, Mark Thompson.
Mr. Thompson said, “Meredith is a dynamic leader who in less than two
years at The Times has transformed our advertising group and presided
over great success in our sales efforts. She introduced Paid Posts, a
standard setter in native advertising and has been the architect of a
remarkable turn-around in digital advertising. I fully expect that she
will provide the same sort of leadership to our marketing group. In
addition, like with product and technology, I believe that unifying the
responsibilities of advertising and marketing under single leadership
makes sense and will enable us to more effectively balance the needs and
accelerate the progress of both groups.”
Ms. Kopit Levien, 44, joined The New York Times Company in August 2013
as executive vice president of advertising. She previously served as
chief revenue officer at Forbes Media. She joined Forbes in 2010 as vice
president and publisher of ForbesLife and ForbesWoman.com before being
named senior vice president and group publisher of the Forbes Magazine
Group.
Before Forbes, Ms. Kopit Levien held various successively senior and
strategic ad sales positions at The Atlantic Media Company from
2001-2008. She began her professional career at the Advisory Board
Company in Washington, DC in 1993.
A graduate of the University of Virginia, Ms. Kopit Levien resides with
her husband and son in New York City.
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