McClatchy CEO Pruitt: We've Got No Beef With Google Ken Doctor's 'Newsonomics,' a Fitz & Jen Book Review Guild: 'Post-Dispatch' Contract Talks Turning 'More Acrimonious' Bollinger Named 'Aberdeen American News' Publisher While Leone on Medical Leave Remembering Subscribers in Mill Valley -- By Painting Stripes in Front of Their Houses Media General Also Paying High Price To Spread Out Debt UPDATE: St. Louis Gay Newspaper Comes Back From Dead, But as Magazine Minneapolis 'Star Tribune' Achieves Record Web Month Union, Management Set Tuesday Meeting on 'Newsday' Financial Status 'N.Y. Times' Ombudsman: I'd Transfer Jerusalem Bureau Chief With Son in Israeli Army | This week's top stories Mediaweek: Top Headlines

BOSTON Executives at the parent company of The Boston Globe say that the newspaper's finances have improved significantly and that a sale is not a certainty.

The leaders of The New York Times Co. met with Globe employees Wednesday for the first time since Globe unions accepted pay cuts and other concessions in the face of a threat to close the newspaper.

Times Co. Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said the company had received some preliminary bids for the Globe and another newspaper owned by the company, the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester. Sulzberger said he would be giving the bidders tours of the facilities in the coming days. But he said the company was not in a position that it absolutely had to sell the newspapers.