The New York Times News Service will lay off at least 25 editorial employees next year and will move the editing of the service to a Florida newspaper owned by The New York Times Company. The layoffs do not count toward the planned elimination of 100 jobs in The New York Times newsroom. That 8% reduction is to take effect by the end of the year. 25 of 30 news service jobs would be eliminated at the main office in New York, with five employees retaining their positions. The guild put the number of jobs to be cut at 28. Some of the layoffs were scheduled for February and the rest for May.

On October 29, 2009, The New York Times Company announced the retirement of P. Steven Ainsley, the publisher of The Boston Globe and a named executive officer of the Company, at the end of the year.

SunGard Higher Education, The New York Times Company and Epsilen, LLC announced a partnership to help provide more flexible e-learning options to enrich the learning experience. As part of the project, SunGard Higher Education will integrate Epsilen's e-learning environment with its solutions to help institutions offer their constituents Web 2.0 standards-based personal e-learning solutions. The New York Times Company and SunGard Higher Education will offer Epsilen to SunGard Higher Education customers. Epsilen can be implemented as a standalone solution or to augment the functionality of other campus and learning solutions. It is delivered on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) basis which provides remote hosting and management. Through its relationship with The New York Times, Epsilen allows teachers and learners to access Times content back to 1851, creating a rich database of articles and information that can be of help for researching and teaching many subjects.