---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000071691-23-000025"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NYT"
cik: "0000071691"
company_name: "NEW YORK TIMES CO"
filed_at: "2023-10-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T06:40:19.375635+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# NYT Board amends bylaws to add universal proxy rule requirements and exclusive forum provisions

## Summary
- Stockholders nominating directors must comply with Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act and certify compliance.
- White proxy cards are reserved for the exclusive use of the Board.
- New York state courts designated as exclusive forum for derivative and fiduciary claims; federal courts for Securities Act claims.
- Other procedural enhancements conform to New York Business Corporation Law.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000071691-23-000025
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NYT
- cik: 0000071691
- company_name: NEW YORK TIMES CO
- filed_at: 2023-10-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/71691/000007169123000025/0000071691-23-000025-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/71691/000007169123000025/nyt-20230928.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000071691-23-000025
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000071691-23-000025.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000071691-23-000025.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  NEW YORK TIMES CO: Adopted amendments to the By-laws to specify universal proxy rules compliance, enhance nomination procedures, reserve white proxy cards for the Board, designate exclusive forum provisions, and make other conforming changes (effective 2023-09-28).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-09-28
  source text: On September 28, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The New York Times Company (the “Company”) approved and adopted amendments to the By-laws of the Company (the “Amended By-laws”) to: • Specify the requirements with which stockholders delivering notice of a director nomination pursuant to the “universal proxy rules” in Rule 14a-19 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), must comply, including certifying that such stockholder has met the requirements of Rule 14a-19(a) under the Exchange Act and delivering reasonable evidence of such compliance upon request of the Company; • Enhance and clarify certain other procedural and informational notice requirements applicable to stockholders seeking to nominate directors or propose other business at meetings of stockholders; • Reserve white proxy cards for the exclusive use of the Board; • Designate (i) the New York Supreme Court (or, if such court does not have jurisdiction, the federal district co
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/71691/000007169123000025/0000071691-23-000025-index.htm

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