Next year will be even better. As PaidContent's David Kaplan observes, at the top of the New York Times, it was a very good year.

(In the newsroom? Not so much.)

In total ‘09, [Chairman Arthur] Sulzberger’s compensation was $5,986,738, more than double the $2,331,599 he earned last year. His base salary for last year was $1,046,238. [CEO Janet] Robinson did even better, earning a total of $6,262,755, which included a base salary of $962,500, for a significant 31.9 percent rise in earnings over last year’s $4,753,314.

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