Diane Brayton

Diane Brayton became executive vice president and general counsel of The New York Times Company in January 2017. In her role, she provides legal counsel to the company’s board of directors and senior management and leads a legal team that advises on, among other areas, media and intellectual property law, corporate governance and securities matters, commercial transactions, employment and labor relations, and litigation management. Ms. Brayton has served as the Times Company’s corporate secretary since 2011.

In addition to her duties as general counsel, Ms. Brayton oversees the company’s information security, corporate security and occupational health and safety functions.

In 2016, Ms. Brayton served as deputy general counsel. In 2009, she was named assistant secretary and assistant general counsel. She joined the Times Company in 2004 as counsel and was promoted to senior counsel in 2007.

Prior to working at the Times Company, Ms. Brayton was vice president and counsel in the legal department of Credit Suisse First Boston from 2002 to 2004 and an associate at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York, Moscow and London from 1997 to 2002. From 1996 to 1997, she was a clerk for the Honorable W. Eugene Davis of the United States Court of Appeals, for the Fifth Circuit.

In 2019, Ms. Brayton joined the board of directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide.

Ms. Brayton received a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Nebraska and a J.D. degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1996, where she graduated with honors.