September 18, 2025 12:29 PM
NYT chief executive warns Trump is deploying ‘anti-press playbook’
The chief executive officer of the New York Times, Meredith Kopit Levien, said the company would "not be cowed" by U.S. President Donald Trump’s $15-billion lawsuit against the newspaper, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The suit is the latest in Trump's flurry of legal attacks on media during his second term, including a $10-billion defamation case against the Wall Street Journal in July. The lawsuit was legally baseless, Levien told a Financial Times conference in remarks the pap...