Bloomberg smartly notes that former New York Times CEO Janet Robsinson’s $24M bundle in 2011 was “equal to about 2.4% of the company’s market value of $981.9 million, and exceeds the approximately $3 million the company earned in net income over the past four years.” The company’s proxy statement, out today, says Robinson — who left at the end of 2011 — had an $11.3M compensation package last year ($1M salary, $767,533 in stock awards, $797,185 in option awards, $3.6M in non-equity incentives, $523,898 in deferred compensation and $4.6M in other compensation). That’s up 113.2% vs 2010, but includes in “other compensation” a $4.5M fee so the company can call on her as a consultant this year. On top of her compensation, Robinson is entitled to about $11.4M in retirement benefits. Her exit deal includes a “two-year non-competition, non-solicitation and non-disparagement covenant, a three-year cooperation covenant and an indefinite confidentiality covenant.” The company lauded her “leadership during recent challenging years and other significant accomplishments during her 28-year tenure with the Company” including the development of its digital strategy. It doesn’t hold her responsible for the 22.4% drop in the Times’ market value in 2011, or the 80% drop since she became CEO in late 2004.


The extraordinary documentary “Inside Job” says it all.
And as an American and member of the planet I almost wish we stopped hearing this over and over. It is abundantly clear that “Wall Street” and “Corporate Greed” are a diseases which border on terrorism.
FUCKING DISGUSTING,,,and, please, don’t say this crap is capitalism at its best. It is at its worst.
Yet another example of a floundering executive’s performance with resulting shareholder value.
Ridiculous.
How can a CEO make eight times of what the company made?
Was he the one who could save the New York Times? Did it need to be saved?
Or was it just another case of self-service mentality, where the top executives rip off a company by lining their pockets with its assets?
Janet Robinson should become the poster girl for the 1%. The height of corporate greed. Those who allowed this to happen are right up there beside her. It’s criminal. These are the very same people that oppose government regulation. And the tax breaks for the rich? Don’t get me started.
People go to prison for robbing a 7/11 ;
put a suit on to commit Corporate theft.
This is absolutely shameful! First, the Allstate CEO is getting a payraise despite the fact the stock has been sinking and morale is at an all-time low under his leadership, then MF Global wants to pay their executives bonuses, the same ones who were responsible for failing to overlook peoples’ funds and protfolios and now this woman getting more money from a conglomerate who is trying to stay relevant and yet she still continues to claim monies as a result of her ineffectiveness the last few years time. What the hell is going on here?!
What is even more shameful, is that there is no revolution! That the public is near comatose in it’s response – that we do nothing about it, except put more people in office who do nothing about it. I can’t wait to move out of this disgusting country – where this stuff happens at the same time that less and less people have healthcare, and those who do can less and less afford the premiums / copay’s / co-insurance, at the same time that opiate addiction is dramatically on the rise because pharma companies are allowed to peddle drugs in a way that the rest of us would be imprisoned for (soon they’ll be allowed to peddle meth – they’ll just package it and call it something else), at the same time that we have a ridiculously high level of homeless, and children starving inside our own borders…
Don’t even get me started.
Yeah… God Bless America… the land of dreams…
mmm hmm…
Liberals. LMFAO.
Damn straight.
Pot, meet kettle.
Liberal hypocrisy is always funny.
Was it her idea to raise the price of the paper to $2.50? What will the MSM say when the paper folds…..or if News Corp tries to buy it
I have a question? Does the CEO decide the wage of the CEO? Judging by how much money some of them make I would imagine they pay themselves and give themselves a nice bonus too.