Meredith Kopit Levien

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Meredith Kopit Levien (born c. 1971) is an American media executive who has served as president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company since September 2020. She leads the company's global operations and directs its business strategy, with a focus on digital transformation and subscription growth that has propelled The New York Times toward 10 million total subscribers. Levien joined The Times in 2013 as head of advertising, advanced to executive vice president and chief revenue officer in 2015, and became chief operating officer in 2017, overseeing subscriptions, advertising, and product development. Before The Times, she was chief revenue officer at Forbes Media for five years and held senior positions at The Atlantic for six years, following an early career start at the Advisory Board Company after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia in 1993. At 49 years old upon appointment, she became the youngest CEO in the organization's 168-year history and the second woman to hold the role, amid efforts to sustain journalism through diversified revenue streams including bundles of news, games, and lifestyle content.

In brief

Meredith Kopit Levien came up through advertising and the unfashionable work of making a newspaper’s balance sheet modern. The Times under her is a subscription company that happens to publish journalism.

That inversion is the achievement. A nineteenth-century title now lives or dies on whether a reader will pay for the next month. She is the executive who has to make that feel inevitable.