Segment Information (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 25, 2012

Schedule of segment reporting information

Our Statements of Operations by segment and Corporate were as follows:



	For the Quarters Ended
(In thousands)	March 25, 2012			March 27, 2011
Revenues
News Media Group	$	475,432		$	469,522
About Group	23,944			31,142
Total	$	499,376		$	500,664
Operating profit/(loss)
News Media Group⁽¹⁾	$	23,074		$	25,876
About Group	6,996			14,147
Corporate	(10,454		)	(14,104		)
Total	$	19,616		$	25,919
Gain on sale of investment	17,848			5,898
Impairment of investments	4,900			—
Loss from joint ventures	29			5,749
Interest expense, net	15,452			24,591
Income from continuing operations before income taxes	17,083			1,477
Income tax expense/(benefit)	4,076			(596		)
Income from continuing operations	13,007			2,073
Income from discontinued operations, net of income taxes	29,070			3,153
Net income	42,077			5,226
Net loss attributable to the noncontrolling interest	53			193
Net income attributable to The New York Times Company common stockholders	$	42,130		$	5,419

(1) In the first quarter of 2012, we recorded a $6.7 million charge for accelerated depreciation for certain assets at the T&G’s facility in Millbury, Mass., associated with the consolidation of most of T&G’s printing into the Globe’s facility in Boston, Mass., which was completed early in the second quarter of 2012.

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