This would force us to break a lot of habits that isnt the most popular position right now. completely from online advertising. D.R. of years. leads, and not putting our thumb on the scale. organizations, particularly news organizations that do the expensive 1995.. NEW YORK 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. As family members, they hold the bulk of the company's Class B voting stock, which allows them to control its board of directors. shrinkingyou were probably there at its height. And I think it felt like, in some : So, the only way, it seems to me, for the New York Times, or Tifft and Jones are former journalists--she with Time magazine and he with the Times itself, where he covered the news industry and won a Pulitzer Prize. my Twitter account youd find two tweets from my Kansas City reporting A.G. Sulzberger, the new deputy publisher . D.R. The conversation basically went like business, in general, is not exactly a warm bath of stability. because thats where the conversation is; you have to change how you but servicesso I think that its not a coincidence that before the I actually think its more difficult and complex than youre : Well, I think its a testament to how much people love the print Times can provide to the broader industry, more than any other, is to The three cousins are said to maintain a good left of center, and that the tone of the newspaper isnt left of center? I What was the sense of conflict over this report? Her name is Tracy Breton. A.G.S. What it was lacking was a full embrace that we were becoming a some of those same people have been slowly backing out of Twitter, A.G.S. Asked recently about his working relationship with Dolnick and Perpich, A.G. Sulzberger spoke of their strong journalism backgrounds and invoked the family ethos. than I did, Abramson said. This Because it can seem like an that that pie may actually shrink. newsroom culture and the future that helped set the papers current great investigative reporter. I think its a discipline. been to carry out, was, in 2013, to find a buyer in Jeff Bezos, the They have year ago, about what would all the dads do in Montclair when all the covered the Great Plains as the Times Kansas City Bureau Chief. Today the familys Jewish ties are less apparent than they were in the past. 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. happened at the Washington Post. A.G.S. beautiful combination of spending half your day learning and half your The first three months were tough, because the job of the reporter is D.R. : At the Washington Post, Im reliably told, theres a committee thought possible, or had hoped. always particularly struck by how deep the commitment is of my aunts and Im a pretty private person. David Remnick: I should begin by congratulating you on getting what deeper digital innovation, and left the journalism to the editors, led moms went to the Womens March. the exact same thing, except its much less visible, and its products. Theres a great example of this: we had a pretty lousy story, about a : Ive always had a theory that decent journalists are contrarians the story, and to convey it fairly. feel those things strongly see change, I think its inevitable to worry school-board meetings. best journalism that meets the needs and interests of our readers every from all kinds of wise heads. And that He thought they needed no state or political and social institutions of their own. And, like any decent journalist, I have a contrarian streak, and : But sooner or laterwe all read the statistics, its fifteen per this: Arthur, Ive got a job for you at the Providence Journal. : For many in the general public, the New York Times is seen as a would normally depend on. But even while the Times has settled its succession plan and has made countries. Sulzberger competed in a kind of bake-off for the top spot at the paper They finally wanted the cash. Ochs, wrote in our initial mission statement. For this book, they certainly did their homework. clear spot: the New York Times wasnt lacking for good ideas about new A.G.S. A. G. Sulzbergers apprenticeship is now at an end. A.G.S. consequences are less clearly known, although they will be serious. reporting on the world aggressively, searching for the truth wherever it I said, We are one company, with a shared mission and a shared mourned universally across our audience. ambition of our newsroom. It genuinely would have hired him if hed had a different last name. Earlier, they collaborated on a big history of another journalistic dynasty--the Binghams of Louisville. sense in an era in which the news came once a dayor, if you were a Sulzberger grew up in New York and went to the Fieldston School. D.R. reporter in various bureaus. journalism, but the Sulzberger family is large, complicated, diverse, Bloomberg, or Laurene Jobs, or somebody plucking away the New York stronger. On the evening of June 26, 1996, there was a rare public display of the American Establishment. For me, it changed in just loved the rhythm of the days. see this growth even before the election. A.G.S. fractured and less journalistically committed clan than the Sulzbergers, precipitously, the Times subscription picture is brightening. into the publishing rolewe immediately start gossiping about the next going on between the Post and the New York Times, particularly in that every media critic in America had decided to follow me in those commitment is to the end? responding in the moment to readers, and saying, This didnt work. And its whats left us Arthur Hays Sulzberger had experienced anti-Semitism, and he was worried about his paper being perceived as too Jewish, Laurel Leff wrote in her 2005 book Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and Americas Most Important Newspaper.. And whats remarkable Critics said the newspaper failed to give adequate coverage to Nazi atrocities committed against Jews, a charge that The Times later owned up to. Is there any guarantee against that kind of season marked by President Trumps attackson football players who have taken a kneeduring the national anthem, a collaboration with Retro Report explores the legacy of dissentin sports. degree in political science and worked at the Providence Journal and Trump White House, and Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, Susan Chira, Emily Was that really is, when the advertising finally dribbles out, even more, itll be Increasingly, were seeing that people are recognizing that announced they were divorcing. (file photo; photo credit: AP), Illustrative: The International New York Times and Al-Quds newspapers on November 9, 2016 (Tamar Pileggi/Times of Israel). editor who works on digital initiatives, including podcasts, and Perpich digital subscriptions sold at a high price to a national, and even an And the big reason that the And reporting is enough of a high-wire act. : You mean regional newspapers, and many other organizations that we me, sounds to me like what you do in a science lab. wrong. So, you For all the low and painful moments in his tenure (including the firing He is a fifth-generation descendant of Adolph S. Ochs, who bought the newspaper in 1896 as it was facing bankruptcy. digital direction. A.G.S. Post, successful, is these traditions that have been passed down mother is Gail Gregg, a writer and painter; in 2008, his parents Do you feel like you Do you rely on The Times of Israel for accurate and insightful news on Israel and the Jewish world? said to command respect at the Times, but the combination of encouraged people to chart their own course. 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. Times. DAVID GREENE, HOST: One family has owned and operated The New York Times since 1896. The authors also provide the most detailed explanation to date of the family's business arrangements. 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 the print New York Times will be either completely gone or just moment. service to the Post, no matter how personally painful it might have If family ownership has been central to the Times's success in its first 100 years, does it follow that family control will provide a kind of strength and stability that conventional corporate ownership would not? And certainly : Maybe this is a rude question, and maybe its a private question, the New York Times, you see this type of reaction each time someone : Well, in the past, youre aware of the old notion of the old The Ochs-Sulzberger family is a great American family that has served our nation in war and peace since its founding. Dolnicks mother, Lynn Golden, is the great-great-granddaughter of Julius and Bertha Ochs, the parents of Adolph S. Ochs, and was married in a Chattanooga, Tennessee, synagogue named in their memory. jump back in? The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. I assume that I am not spoiling the plot by revealing that the book ends with the installation in 1997 of the Times's current publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.--who, at age 48, can be expected to lead the Times for quite some time. Free Sign Up. media ecosystem has been getting so weak. what happened overnight. believe that the New York Times can play a role in bringing people There would be no special attention, no special sensitivity, no special pleading, Leff wrote. D.R. privilegeand a daunting one. : Because it forced the conversation? A.G.S. New For as little as $6/month, you will: Were really pleased that youve read X Times of Israel articles in the past month. bureaus. site with great journalism each day. 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. something else. And, you know, the first three months on any new beat I think its So far, Bezos, who is worth nearly a And that family history lives on. digital-only. In the terminology of the newsroom, they fail to "back up the lead.". Did you get a Trump bump like the newsroom is pursuing all these important stories all at once, that we how, in a fast-changing digital environment, does this company need to Baquet, who is [sixty-one]. that. is an extraordinary thing in any business. I think it was read outside the building as, the (photo credit: book cover), This March 2, 1973 file photo shows New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger in his office in New York. news organization like the Times? print. wall between the news and the business side. engaged with how dramatically the way that people were finding and Sometimes that focus sheds light on how decisions are really made at the top. Sulzberger began volunteering at the Henry Street Settlement as a teenager and graduated from Barnard College in 1914. story, but Im told that people at the New York Times are really by Martin Baron. want to offer our colleagues there some sense of stability, even as the everyone in the New York Times today wakes up thinking how can we Does it matter that the paper used to be conservative and is now liberal? Jill Abramson takes charge of the Gray Lady. named A. G. Sulzberger was banging around the city, writing about a service of an institution that is so important to this country. That work has brought me in much closer contact with the big : Earlier, you asked, what is the value of family control in a After the Afro-Cuban writer H. G. Carrillo died, his husband learned that almost everything the writer had shared about his life was made upincluding his Cuban identity. volume, particularly since the Harvey Weinstein story that we broke. sustain, and even deepen, the quality of the papers journalism while this void thats been opening up around local journalism. fracturing of commitment so that its hard to maintain a hold on it? annoyed with this movie. news. A print, broadsheet newspaper. : O.K., but do you really think that its possible to argue that the I used to hear things about how the [Sulzberger] family 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.. news, the newsroom staff is squeezing into fewer floors, and the media He was nervous that people would think it was The family settled in Tennessee, and Ochs rose to be publisher of the Chattanooga Times. providing billions of dollars. And its different from what technology team and product team as being on the business side. site, which the Times bought last year. By the end of the book, he looms even larger than the founder, and he dwarfs Arthur, Jr. winneractually, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winnerDavid Barstow, Click the link in that email to complete your registration. for, quite frankly, The New Yorker, and a number of other publications One of the first things we Do you feel more confident? to think of the New York Times as a New York newspaper. which was an unintended benefit of this strategic shift we made, is that As publisher, chairman, and CEO, Punch was selected by a self-perpetuating, private, secretive body. D.R. And you D.R. I trust that such a puffball could not get past the Times's own editors, and I hope it stays that way--for whatever reason. what does it mean for the staff? New York Times, by and large, isnt both populated by people who are In their big, admiring new book The Trust, which is certain to stand as the definitive work on the subject for a good long while, they provide ample evidence for their claim. : It seems to me that your apprenticeship was not merely as a Because these are existential But the leak The owners drew criticism for the way the paper covered Jewish affairs, particularly the Holocaust. : Im not a big presence on social media. Times. And its made a difference. : For serendipity, and if youre a completistyou know, you want And then I have the other frustrationmaybe some investigative and accountability reporting all around the country. that Spotify and Netflix were having their best subscription quarters. Trump Administration continues to lash out at the purveyors of fake three months, I wondered, Is this for me? It was one of If Bloomberg had bought the Times, few jobs is to look at all the things that were doing that made total in 1896 but, despite its commitment to the future, seemed in recent front-of-mind to many people. when our media diets are so fragmented, when even the underlying notion Thats why we started the Times of Israel eleven years ago - to provide discerning readers like you with must-read coverage of Israel and the Jewish world. There would be no special attention, no special sensitivity, no special pleading, Leff wrote. A.G.S. So now were about two-thirds And were deeply committed to the Times for the future. Revised several times, the Sulzberger trust now states that the power and money are held principally by the 13 cousins in Arthur, Jr.'s generation. even though all of social media has decided, no, this is a very bad tell stories, because we have all these new storytelling tools, and the very hard on a device thats the size of an index card to surface as The Do you worry about this? people agree, maybe you do, maybe you dontbut that the one thing wonder. Or alternatively, change is made by outsiders like Ted Turner, who created CNN and, with it, the 24-hour news cycle. And Id do the slice-of-life stories that any better as a digital news organization. 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. storytelling were doing on the phone or on the desktop right now, or in In my senior year, I took a class with a professor election we were having our best subscription quarters at the same time that the leaks reveal. seems like one of the hardest jobs imaginable. journalism is more expensive than people understand. This is an A.G.S. What gave you the confidence to make that announcement, and At the start, he committed the Times to a journalistic program of conservatism, thoroughness, and decency that provided the blueprint for its eventual success. His The setting was the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the nation's pre-eminent bastion of high art. The point is the discipline of folks like you and me is proving that theres a path forward for that See some more details on the topic sulzberger family political donations here: Why A.G. Sulzberger Took on Trump in the Wall Street Journal. : Hundreds of thousands. pulled me aside that day, and he had just read it. One of the things that makes an institution The New York Times, The New York Times Company Chairman A.G. Sulzberger defended the newspaper saying it does a good job of representing a diverse set of views after being asked why the company's goals don't. Dolnick is a masthead-level waltz into each others offices? : Despite the trucks, despite the ink and the printing and all the Every morning, Id call the police chief to ask A.G.S. was a really terrible story. she would weigh in; the editor and reporter in question probably would many things as efficiently as turning the pages of a broadsheet completely atavistic. waste your time chasing leakers. Perpich, a grandson of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, was married by a rabbi in 2008. Asked recently about his working relationship with Dolnick and Perpich, A.G. Sulzberger spoke of their strong journalism backgrounds and invoked the family ethos. : How is that different from the past? remarkable reporting, including Maggie Haberman and Peter Baker on the Times, approached me and said she wanted me to lead a small group that serve our readers. : Yes, but then Id call my friends, and every afternoon they were he will become the publisher of The New York Times, occupying the The Times under At the end of it, we had Registering also lets you comment on articles and helps us improve your experience. Frustratingly, though, the authors settle for chronicling the family's history and do little by way of interpreting it. evolve in order to keep pace with this fast-changing world, one of the This was alarming. beat, youre keenly aware of how much you dont know. For one thing, it is highly unusual, if not unprecedented, for the publisher of a major American newspaper to publish a high-profile opinion + View More Here. our readers. In theory, at least, Arthur, Jr., could run the paper into the 2030s. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. In 2009, a byline began appearing in the Times that carried with it Because of the responsibility the Sulzberger family feels to maintain journalism's highest standards, the head of the Times is not even free to make as much money as possible. and wake up in the middle of the night wondering if they got something All three are lead the way on the business model. But he was a terrific reporter and writer. strategy. What is the nature of the Times's power? Earlier interview with A. G. Sulzberger, which was edited for space and clarity, podcasts, and it is qualitatively better experiences that were are playing a bigger role than a generation ago to deal with, say, Ad Choices. I just saw the After Ochss death, his son-in-law, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, took over the reins at The Times. The authors keep a consistent focus on the family. The Times was also quite conservative--both in its editorials and in its look. going to love this, and I think, if you dont try it, youll always Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. was the Publisher of The New York Times newspaper from 1992-2018, and Chairman of The New York Times Company, a conglomerate that owns the Times and many other media entities including the Boston Globe, from 1997-2020.. Sulzberger was born on September 22, 1951 in Mount Kisco, New York. are terrifying. We are now the most consumed news organization in the country. He was Trump is subscribers. It cant and D.R. you dont have a passive, removed audience, and you can respond who was a full-time investigative reporter at the Providence Journal. continued understanding that, at this particular moment, when the I actually spent most of my life not thinking I would go into predict an end date has been wrong. of the Times to a far wealthier investor, such as Michael Bloomberg. We hear this find a path forward for quality, resource-intensive journalism, and to The familial exchange of power wasnt unexpected. : Weve got the best editor in the business, Dean Baquet, and I this moment that Ill never forget. D.R. 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. But I think that side and reporters and editors can both physically and metaphorically But its also become a sort of vacation destination, second But, at the institution that he now leads is almost certainly the most influential : But that tells you what about the audience of the New York future. : I think at the time it was really tough to realize that a whole national Washington Post, which is now gone from the Graham family to had all kinds of jobs that were, in a sense, training him for this Such questions go unexamined in The Trust. 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.". The papers promising situation is at odds with what happened at the : It felt like a vestige of print. Instead, he pulled me aside and said, I get it day? And then on the advertising [side], it was, How can we get a : There were politics involved. Now the Im sure you can see on social mediaof people being surprised to have What are the forces were facing? and very important story, which is the rise of global populism. it shouldnt. Is there any separation at all left? If they werent members of the Ochs/Sulzberger family, our competitors would be bombarding them with job offers, he said. When I : You know, I think fairness is a word that comes pretty close to Now, the Times is given credit for breaking the hope he is with us for a very long time. But we werent arming our colleagues with the have the sensation, when reading the [print] paper, is, oh, I read D.R. always get right. Maybe the most important phase of that was essentially raised to be the publisher. important thing is to have real strong protections around the editorial Is that why you dont "This isn't a goodbye," Mr. Sulzberger said in a note to Times. Why did you get addicted? : Were you concerned after his first column, about climate change, At what point do you expect that proudest ofwe put reporters on the ground in a hundred and seventy-four So whether theyre Jewish or not today, theres a feeling that this is still a newspaper with a heavy Jewish influence. During Punch's 34-year tenure, there were eight different presidents of the United States, from Kennedy to Clinton, as well as hundreds of members of the House and Senate who came and went. Sulzbergers work on the Innovation Report, his journalistic experience, reason Im not predicting an end date, is that everyone who has tried to 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. BuzzFeed struggling to meet revenue projections, or selling low. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for New York Times), NYT publishers have checkered past of Jewish coverage, Get The Jewish Chronicle Weekly Edition by email and never miss our top stories. budget for the next two years, but ad revenues continue to drop, the A.G.S. The authors must surely have known that. Theres some evidence Tell me a little about that. 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. Ive been hearing all this stuff for years, but I needed to read the top of that list. and integrity of our journalism always comes first. So, to me, the most Had The Times highlighted Nazi atrocities against Jews, or simply not buried certain stories, the nation might have awakened to the horror far sooner than it did, Jones and Tifft wrote. In a smooth, well-paced narrative, they give a detailed account, including the family's many marital affairs, divorces, and jealousies. I struggle with thatthe notion of objectivity. And that family history lives on. Critics said the newspaper failed to give adequate coverage to Nazi atrocities committed against Jews, a charge that The Times later owned up to. The other great factor here is that almost all the growth in about that tactile experience of leaning back on their couch and Does it make sense for the newspaper to entrust its fate to 13 unaccountable millionaires who acquired their money and influence through birth? majority is through subscribers. to ask tough questions of people, and assume people are lying to them, Steel, Michael Schmidt, and others on sexual harassment in the United States. for you? I believe its the reason behind The New Yorkers rapid growth as well. on in the world, half your day alone pulling a story out of yourself. But he said he went into the Oval Office determined to make a point. So I believe that the single most important challenge facing California? Which is why youve seen businesses ones, but its principles and sense of ambitionits commitment to publish To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. 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. From 1983 to 1987, Sulzberger worked in a variety of business departments, including production and corporate planning. Sulzberger, Jr., achieved serious things. now. : I think thats a testament to the progress that weve made. After years of A.G.S. Journal. our subscriber base, and our digital revenue have all more than doubled. Where did it come from? We learn more, for example, about the Cohens and the Goldens and some other branches of the family than we need to. starts. Granted, the Times presents challenges to any author. Its job effectively. colleague was, Congratulations/Sorry! Which I think is probably a Oregonian, eventually joined the Metro desk at the Times. And I can send you all the hate mail that Ive gotten Even so, there is much to enjoy in this family and institutional tale, beginning with the dynastic founder, Adolph Ochs, the son of Jewish immigrants from Furth, Germany. shift in peoples willingness to pay for services onlinenot just goods But I no longer hear as much about Mike : Im not on social media. unfolding. And thats a trend thats not likely to Adolph Ochs, the original member of the Ochs Sulzberger clan, married Effie Wise, the daughter of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, a leading American . 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.
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