From: "Thomas Jr., Landon" < To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacationO:gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: Note from Mark Thompson: The New York Times Company Signs on to CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 15:04:55 +0000 Hmmmm Forwarded message From: NYT Company Mail Date: Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 10:00 AM Subject: Note from Mark Thompson: The New York Times Company Signs on to CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion To: All Company Employees Dear Colleagues, Diversity is core to our mission and it's the right thing to do for our business. That is why you've heard A.G., me and other company leaders talk about our commitment to continued progress on diversity and inclusion. We're at work on an action plan and will share more details before the end of the month. But today I want to tell you about one specific development on this topic — which is our decision to sign The New York Times Company up to the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion. I'm personally delighted to be representing The Times in this initiative and particularly pleased that the idea bubbled up from one of our Employee Resource Groups, Black@NYT. Many of our best ideas are starting this way. CEO Action was launched last year and more than 350 organizations have already signed on to their pledge, which is to act on supporting more inclusive workplaces and cultivating environments where all ideas are welcomed and employees feel comfortable and empowered to discuss diversity and inclusion. A central part of the pledge is a commitment for each member company to publish data about diversity in their workforce. We will do that, starting in 2018, so that we and you, and the wider world, can track our progress year by year. Last week, I sat down with Tony Prophet, the chief equality officer at Salesforce, and a group of our employees. Salesforce is a participating partner in CEO Action and has just been ranked number one on Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" list. We talked a