REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM  ON CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of The New York Times Company New York, NY We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of The New York Times Company as of  December 28, 2014 and December 29, 2013, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive  (loss)/income, changes in stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three fiscal years in the period ended  December 28, 2014. Our audits also included the financial statement schedule listed at Item 15(A)(2) of The New York  Times Company’s 2014 Annual Report on Form 10-K. These financial statements and schedule are the responsibility  of The New York Times Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial  statements and schedule based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board  (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about  whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis,  evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the  accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial  statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated  financial position of The New York Times Company at December 28, 2014 and December 29, 2013, and the  consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three fiscal years in the period ended  December 28, 2014, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related  financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole, presents  fairly in all material respects, the information set forth therein. We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board  (United States), The New York Times Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 28, 2014,  based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring  Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework), and our report dated February 24, 2015 expressed an  unqualified opinion thereon. /s/ ErnstGLYPH<160>& Young LLP  New York, New York February 24, 2015  P. 56 – THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY