#67: Meredith Kopit Levien, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of The New York Times

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

ABC News

Business, Careers

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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As EVP and COO of The New York Times Company, Meredith Kopit Levien has made it her mission to understand where media consumption is headed. On this episode of No Limits, Meredith opens up about the NY Times and its role in the era of digital transformation, why she thinks the Weinstein story was one of the most profound moments in journalism, and how her leadership style has evolved throughout her career. Congratulations to our No Limits Entrepreneur of the Week: Jill Gwaltney, Founder, Rauxa Find out more: https://www.rauxa.com/ Want to be a featured NLEOTW? Know someone who should? Send your nominations to [email protected] Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! It’s easy! Click here: http://bit.ly/2ks4f90 ABOUT REBECCA JARVIS: Rebecca Jarvis is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the Chief Biz, Tech and Econ correspondent for ABC News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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0:00.0	I took a very short maternity leave.
0:05.6	The morning I was going back to work, I was a mess.
0:09.6	And my husband said, bye, love you.
0:13.4	Don't talk about the baby.
0:14.6	Like you are this badass executive.
0:17.5	Don't talk about the baby.
0:18.9	And like, I think about that so much now. And I am, like,
0:23.1	radically focused on how do we, as an employer, like, honor the other commitments that people
0:31.5	have in their lives. And how do we, in appropriate ways, like, let people bring their full selves to work?
0:39.7	From ABC, it's no limits.
0:42.8	I'm Rebecca Jarvis, and each week we're talking to the most bold and influential women playing at the top of their game,
0:50.1	trying to demystify success and what it really takes to get there and all the trade-offs.
0:56.0	Whether you're looking for answers or you just want to hear a good story, you're in the right place.
1:03.7	On today's episode, the woman behind the business of the New York Times,
1:08.7	as chief operating officer Meredith Kopit Levian has helped take
1:12.5	the Grey Lady to unprecedented heights. In this episode, we cover everything from the days that
1:17.7	led up to and followed Jody Cantor and Megan Tui's game-changing story revealing decades of
1:23.3	sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein to whether the times might someday accept
1:29.2	payments in Bitcoin to Meredith's own path, becoming the company's first COO in more than a decade.
1:38.3	Meredith, Cope at Levy, and welcome to No Limits.
1:41.1	Thanks so much for having me.
1:42.3	It's great to be here.
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