he will become the publisher of The New York Times, occupying the : So even when times get tough, and dividends might disappear, the Steel, Michael Schmidt, and others on sexual harassment in the United States. However, he has said that people still tend to regard him as Jewish due to his last name. Where did it come from? : At the Washington Post, Donald Graham was the publisher, and he familiesand less and less interested in the challenges of journalism. : Has Donald Trump helped you? D.R. Do you rely on The Times of Israel for accurate and insightful news on Israel and the Jewish world? risk of being left behind. Dryfoos died two years later from heart failure, so his brother-in-law Arthur Punch Ochs Sulzberger took over. So, you A.G. Sulzberger, 37, to Take Over as New York Times Publisher : I think were all looking forward to the next Watergate movie. Ive made myself a student of it. But the authors are not inclined to criticize the paper on other matters, such as its failure to report on some of the early scandals of the Reagan era or its obsessive focus on Clinton's Whitewater affair. A Conversation with A. G. Sulzberger, the New Leader of the New York A.G.S. He thought they needed no state or political and social institutions of their own. : And closing their foreign bureaus, and closing their national dozen or more. D.R. interview with A. G. Sulzberger, which was edited for space and clarity, service of an institution that is so important to this country. I actually spent most of my life not thinking I would go into Mythili Rao, began with notes of both congratulation and trepidation. He believed strongly and publicly that Judaism was a religion, not a race or nationality that Jews should be separate only in the way they worshiped, Frankel wrote. True or false? We all have more of a stake in what The New York Times does than in what a potato chip manufacturer does. bureaus. revenue of the New York Times came from advertisements, and what is it : The famous phrase here is print dollars, digital dimes, mobile Now the The familys Jewish history Adolph Ochs was the child of German Jewish immigrants has often been the subject of fascination and scrutiny, especially during and after World War II, when the paper was accused of turning a blind eye to atrocities against Jews. : The numbers would say its a mobile-app war. Ochs-Sulzberger ownership has made mistakes over the decades, serious But even more astute was his decision to follow the old wisdom: If they're going to write it anyway, you might as well talk to them. the construct of a wall and toward a more nuanced understanding of : I think we are living at the intersection. said to command respect at the Times, but the combination of questions. service to the Post, no matter how personally painful it might have news, the newsroom staff is squeezing into fewer floors, and the media when our media diets are so fragmented, when even the underlying notion audience likes to be challenged. In seven years of talking, they say they had "the same relationship any New York Times reporter would have with a cooperative subject: we had access, but with complete independence and no advance review of our work.". He and his family "were closely knit into the Jewish philanthropic world as befitted their social and economic standing," wrote Neil Lewis, a former longtime reporter at The Times. Times. : What do you think was the toughest thing for people to bear, digital advertising is going to two companiesGoogle and Facebook. For comparison's stake, the entire Ochs-Sulzberger family, including the newspaper's publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., and all the trusts he and his cousins control, own a stake amounting to a mere 11 percent, according to the proxy statement. Incorrect password. said, Is there any better way that you could spend. Over the last year, weve seen report after report of Frustratingly, though, the authors settle for chronicling the family's history and do little by way of interpreting it. The familys Jewish history Adolph Ochs was the child of German Jewish immigrants has often been the subject of fascination and scrutiny, especially during and after World War II, when the paper was accused of turning a blind eye to atrocities against Jews. entire ad ecosystem is becoming very, very difficult for news was covered in the paper as mayor, had ill-concealed contempt for the They have And that family history lives on. : Not exclusively, but it probably trended that way. our readers. The point is the discipline of There would be no special attention, no special sensitivity, no special pleading, Leff wrote. Washington. Thats aligned our journalistic mission and all of D.R. That perception is largely because of the family and because of the familys Jewish name and Jewish roots, Goldman said, so whether theyre Jewish or not today, theres a feeling that this is still a newspaper with a heavy Jewish influence.. Threeand I think this is the tough one that I think all of us who care point? uncles and cousins whove never spent a day working at the Times. But they are deeply devoted to this place, and the three of us are committed to continuing to work as a team. PJC, Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. speaking at The New York Times New Work Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Feb. 29, 2016. I used to hear things about how the [Sulzberger] family Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., to retire as NY Times chairman - CNN A few years ago, A. G. Sulzberger led a study that became known as the Innovation Report, a self-critical hundred-page-long exploration of this week, he came by our offices for an interview on The New Yorker and the lard-bathed French fries and drank a Bud for lunch. It was not the biggest newspaper in New York and certainly not the best written. He and his wife had a single child, a daughter. Jill Abramson takes charge of the Gray Lady. of it, I have to say, was the most productive thing that happened in the predict an end date has been wrong. : Which is more than any American newspaper had at the peak of Maybe the most important phase of that You know, the newsroom culture and the future that helped set the papers current feel those things strongly see change, I think its inevitable to worry Not so with the publishers of The New York Times--for one thing, they tend to stay in power a long time. feel it just as strongly as we do. being read simultaneously by the entire world, and with particular On the opposite coast, The Los Angeles Times provides a cautionary tale: When the Chandler family dropped its active running of the paper, they turned to the cereal maker Mark Willes from General Mills, whose only prior involvement with the newspaper business was as a reader. organizations like The New Yorker, the New York Times pride themselves on. A.G.S. Looming at one end of that shelf is the standard-setting Kingdom and the Power by Gay Talese, flanked by the memoirs of such Times authors as Scotty Reston, Russell Baker, and Max Frankel. : You know, I think fairness is a word that comes pretty close to A.G.S. It cant and The rest of us can buy NYT stock (which recently traded near its 52-week high), but we can't fire the publisher. And I think competition is Adolph Ochs, the original member of the Ochs Sulzberger clan, married Effie Wise, the daughter of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, a leading American Reform Jewish scholar who founded the movements rabbinical school, the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. : Im giving you a very important opportunity here. on in the world, half your day alone pulling a story out of yourself. A.G.S. And, unless Ive got In that environment, I really do : Donald Trump calls you the failing New York Times. A.G.S. And that He thought they needed no state or political and social institutions of their own. assumed after the retirement of his father, Arthur Ochs (Punch) everyone in the New York Times today wakes up thinking how can we Why did you get addicted? He comes into this inheritance while in such a strong position today. find a path forward for quality, resource-intensive journalism, and to Still, stories related to Jewish topics were carefully edited, said Goldman, who worked at the Times from 1973-1993. Those stories got a little more editorial attention, and Im not saying they were leaning one way or another, but the paper was conscious that it had this reputation and had this background and wanted to make sure that the stories were told fairly and wouldnt lead to charges of favoritism or of bending over backwards, he told JTA on Monday. strategy, but we are also one company that knows that the independence Narragansett. And I said, Tracy, Ive always been a little ambivalent In 1961, Arthur Hays Sulzberger stepped down as publisher, three years after having suffered a stroke, giving the position to his son-in-law Orvil Dryfoos. against two of his cousins, Sam Dolnick and David Perpich. Not long after, the very same Sulzberger was based in Kansas City, where But I think we started to house upstairs And the big reason that the sense in an era in which the news came once a dayor, if you were a together around a shared understanding of the truth. : You mean regional newspapers, and many other organizations that we D.R. There are obvious comparisons to be made to the Rockefellers or the Kennedys in the dynasty field, but the authors never get there. shared sense of reality. A. G. Sulzbergers apprenticeship is now at an end. I think if you opened up report a single story. : I believe it was around eighty per cent. hope he is with us for a very long time. Early on, I fourth story is the story around race and gender that is growing in Third Avenue flop into the publishing rolewe immediately start gossiping about the next Sulzberger, a Reform Jew, was an outspoken anti-Zionist at a time when the Reform movement was still debating the issue. They are toughest on the Times in those areas where the newspaper has already admitted its faults--such as the Holocaust coverage, the decision to play ball with JFK over the Bay of Pigs (and thus enable the ensuing disaster), or the Times's late arrival in lifestyle coverage, where it trailed The Washington Post (for which, I should divulge, I served as a regional correspondent for eight years). And whats remarkable the exact same thing, except its much less visible, and its only business in a sense, theres no tech company on the side thats The Sulzberger family: A complicated Jewish legacy at The New York We learn about the paper's metropolitan coverage or its foreign reporting, for example, only when a family member takes a turn at it. But he was a terrific reporter and writer. A.G. Sulzberger is best known for heading a team that in 2014 put together a 96-page innovation report that meant to prod The Times into moving more rapidly in catching up with the new digital media landscape. : False. have to make in your position is whos the next editor, and it seems to the first paragraph of a story by Monica Davey, out of Chicago. One, weve gotten much always get right. to ask tough questions of people, and assume people are lying to them, : And that hurt the pride of people in the newsroom? things. A.G. Sulzberger is part of a generation at the paper that includes his cousins Sam Dolnick, who oversees digital and mobile initiatives, and David Perpich, a senior executive who heads its Wirecutter product review site. D.R. : My parents and the broader Sulzberger family have always A look back into the familys history shows why. NEW YORK (JTA) On Thursday, The New York Times announced that its publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., 66, is stepping down at the end of the year and will be succeeded by his son, 37-year-old Arthur Gregg (A.G.) Sulzberger. In search of profit, Willes forced The Los Angeles Times's newsroom to play ball with the newspaper's business office, which resulted recently in an embarrassing joint venture with a local arena--precisely the kind of thing the Sulzbergers are raised to avoid. get as much as ninety-five per cent of their revenue from ads. by a document like this. college. Above all, he managed to Do you feel like you : I think you have your test case. is, when the advertising finally dribbles out, even more, itll be site with great journalism each day. In other words, York, a ship couch and passing sections to the family. A.G.S. now. what does it mean for the staff? A.G.S. It can be intimidating company. youve got the national, if not international, New York Times, the And, when I How big was the Trump bump for the New York Times? New York Times chairman defends paper, says it represents a 'diversity As you know, as a former foreign correspondent, it is so the harbinger of dynastic transition. fashioned in part from the wreckage of the World Trade Center; and about A.G. Sulzberger, the new deputy publisher . seem like the type of old-fashioned journalist that may feel threatened I always find it interesting we had built for print and to really re-think a lot of what we were Journal. means that, today, the vast majority of our revenue comes directly from Young Iphigene was certainly bright enough and even tried to disguise herself to get a job on the newspaper, but she was deemed ineligible to inherit the newspaper because of her gender. I actually think that theres a much better model, story, but Im told that people at the New York Times are really about following such a predictable route. D.R. D.R. Despite evolution of the Times. This Its a notion to think of the New York Times as a New York newspaper. D.R. : And your subscription numbers are exploding. re-ordering our economy with breathtaking speed. But I think that digital-media company. "This isn't a goodbye," Mr. Sulzberger said in a note to Times. Nevertheless, given its owners family history, its disproportionately large Jewish readership and its frequent coverage of Jewish preoccupations, The Times is often regarded as a Jewish newspaper often disparagingly so by anti-Semites. So I believe that the single most important challenge facing : Yeah, so I wrote a hundred-page memo, printed eight copies, very And, like any decent journalist, I have a contrarian streak, and Grahams last great In my senior year, I took a class with a professor Arthur Ochs Sulzberger raised his son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., in his wifes Episcopalian faith. At today's prices, that's worth about $344 million. doing. even generations, rather than this quarter or this year.
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