Here’s a story you’ve probably read in the New York Times: Chief executives at a major company, let’s say a bank, accumulate personal fortunes through bonuses and other compensation channels while their company wilts and withers under financial strain. But on Friday that story hit a little too close to home at the Times. Sulzberger!

The New York Times Company announced yesterday, in a quarterly 10-Q statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission, that it has been working with Goldman, Sachs & Co. for the last two months to find a buyer for the Boston Globe, among other properties in its New England Media Group.

NYT Co. PR chief Catherine Mathis resigned yesterday to take up a post at the ratings agency Standards & Poor’s. It’s no secret the Times has been suffering a barrage of bad press this year, mostly to do with its finances. So should this resignation come as a surprise, or is Mathis just an early casualty of the new media PR world?