We have people who understand print very well, the...

We have people who understand print very well, the best in the business. We have people who understand advertising well, the best in the business. But our future is on to video, to social, to mobile. It doesn’t mirror what we’ve done. It broadens what we are going to do.

Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Publisher, New York Times, in an interview with the paper about the hiring of BBC veteran Mark Thompson as the Times Company’s new president and chief executive.

As the Times writes, “In choosing Mr. Thompson, a veteran of television who has spent nearly his entire career at the BBC, The Times reached outside its own company, its own industry and even its own country to find a leader to guide it in an uncharted digital future.”

New York Times, Times Co. Names Mark Thompson Chief Executive