by: Joe Pompeo | Capital New York

Several months ago, New York Times Company C.E.O. Mark Thompson accompanied Times executive editor Jill Abramson on a trip to California, in which she took meetings with "some important figures in Silicon Valley," she told Capital.

"It was a good opportunity to get to know him." But Abramson, when I caught up with her last night after an appearance at N.Y.U.'s journalism school, would not reveal anything about the "new strategy for the company" Thompson announced on a call with Wall Street analysts two weeks ago.