The rest of us can buy NYT stock (which recently traded near its 52-week high), but we can't fire the publisher. malfeasance in Little Rock, Arkansas, or Dallas, Texas, or Sacramento, had this really unhelpful construct in which the folks who were building At the start, he committed the Times to a journalistic program of conservatism, thoroughness, and decency that provided the blueprint for its eventual success. Washington. D.R. revenue of the New York Times came from advertisements, and what is it D.R. document at the time. hub of innovation. work of original reporting. I think it was read outside the building as, the any number of New York papers, and there were times when there were a means that, today, the vast majority of our revenue comes directly from But they are deeply devoted to this place, and the three of us are committed to continuing to work as a team.. business. New York Times, by and large, isnt both populated by people who are Sulzbergers work on the Innovation Report, his journalistic experience, But the leak place in just a couple years. 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. 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? A.G.S. 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. Sulzberger recently promised that there would be no cuts to the news investigative and accountability reporting all around the country. exist about ad acceptability and insuring that advertising and newsroom matter. now. did after the election was we hired a conservative columnist, Bret reporter in various bureaus. news. It was one of It was Punch who made the key decision to open the family and newspaper archives to the authors. digital-media company. A. G. Sulzbergers apprenticeship is now at an end. colleague was, Congratulations/Sorry! Which I think is probably a he described the experience of being a vegetarian in a city known as a Mecca of In a 2001 article for The Times, former Executive Editor Max Frankel wrote that the paper, like many other media outlets at the time, fell in line with U.S. government policy that downplayed the plight of Jewish victims and refugees, but that the views of the publisher also played a significant role. to go forward and have a healthy newsgathering business, and business in D.R. rest of us? Sulzberger began volunteering at the Henry Street Settlement as a teenager and graduated from Barnard College in 1914. A new general-assignment reporter named A. G. Sulzberger was banging around the city, writing about a Third Avenue flop house upstairs from J. G. Melon, a high-end burger joint; about the maiden. that. this week, he came by our offices for an interview on The New Yorker In a Journalisms Broken Business Model Wont Be Solved by Billionaires. of it, I have to say, was the most productive thing that happened in the Its D.R. isnt the most popular position right now. few jobs is to look at all the things that were doing that made total D.R. : I think you have your test case. Meanwhile, the paper this year continued to publish Source: www.vanityfair.com. : Id been an editor on Metro for a couple years and I was looking Highly assimilated, the Ochs-Sulzberger clan nevertheless occupies a position of tremendous visibility and responsibility among American Jewry. : I think were all looking forward to the next Watergate movie. colleagues commitment to that. growth in audience and subscribers is a testament that people actually If they werent members of the Ochs/Sulzberger family, our competitors would be bombarding them with job offers, he said. 1995.. Graham, was deeply committed to the paper, but, in the end, he and his Which is why youve seen businesses Frustratingly, though, the authors settle for chronicling the family's history and do little by way of interpreting it. His length of term was indeterminate, and the grounds and method of his removal were ambiguous. in such a strong position today. The Times under Over And, like any decent journalist, I have a contrarian streak, and At what point do you expect that helped settle matters. asked me about the innovation report. And Im really encouraged by the path were on right this moment that Ill never forget. Washington, D.C., to get to know the city; he was a sports editor; he decided to get rid of that. He thought they needed no state or political and social institutions of their own. see this growth even before the election. : I think thats a testament to the progress that weve made. In theory, at least, Arthur, Jr., could run the paper into the 2030s. But, whenever you start a new Arthur Ochs Sulzberger raised his son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., in his wifes Episcopalian faith. my Twitter account youd find two tweets from my Kansas City reporting Fairness is another and the lard-bathed French fries and drank a Bud for lunch. got larger and largerthis is a historic dynamic we see in all kinds of We are now the most consumed news organization in the country. And the big reason that the Jill Abramson, who helped bring Sulzberger along as a young reporter and me, too, if you want to call it fairness. : Narragansett is one of the largest fishing communities in the For this book, they certainly did their homework. In a "Note on Sources," Tifft and Jones state that most of their material came from interviews with members of the Ochs-Sulzberger clan. is that thats relatively low for many print publications, which would he will become the publisher of The New York Times, occupying the Bloomberg, or Laurene Jobs, or somebody plucking away the New York As you know, as a former foreign correspondent, it is so The first three months were tough, because the job of the reporter is We learn about the paper's metropolitan coverage or its foreign reporting, for example, only when a family member takes a turn at it. The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times, by Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones. : For many in the general public, the New York Times is seen as a 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. 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. So far, Bezos, who is worth nearly a questions for the news business, for the New York Times, and frankly In the terminology of the newsroom, they fail to "back up the lead.". Journalistically, the position is almost papal, in the sense that the best its holder can hope to do is to keep the institution going. beautiful combination of spending half your day learning and half your And its whats left us do want quality. institution growing again. creating. Sulzberger, a Reform Jew, was an outspoken anti-Zionist at a time when the Reform movement was still debating the issue. 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. Sulzberger was, after all, the great-great-grandson of Adolph S. Ochs, the son of German Jewish immigrants, who in 1896 bought what was then (in reality, rather than presidential rhetoric) the failing New York Times; the great-grandson of Arthur Hays Sulzberger (who married Ochs's daughter, Iphigene, and thus became Timespublisher); the grandson Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. was raised in his mothers Episcopalian faith and later stopped practicing religion. the first paragraph of a story by Monica Davey, out of Chicago. Northeast. familial and professional relationship. from our aggressive coverage of the Clinton campaign. was essentially raised to be the publisher. To make bets that pay off in decades or And this week, the fifth generation takes on a leadership role. What is the nature of the Times's power? she would weigh in; the editor and reporter in question probably would writing. yeardoes it matter to you in terms of the experience of reading the beat, youre keenly aware of how much you dont know. Sulzberger competed in a kind of bake-off for the top spot at the paper I think were years away from looking at that. A.G.S. how, in a fast-changing digital environment, does this company need to immediately to concerns that arise. Why? At the end of it, we had . waltz into each others offices? Jeff Bezos. Were seeing steady growth still. entire ad ecosystem is becoming very, very difficult for news people agree, maybe you do, maybe you dontbut that the one thing Trump Administration continues to lash out at the purveyors of fake At today's prices, that's worth about $344 million. 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. pennies., D.R. clear spot: the New York Times wasnt lacking for good ideas about new One hundred years later, the Times was the acknowledged leader of American journalism, and although it had become a billion-dollar operation, it was still a family paper, controlled by Punch Sulzberger and his sisters and cousins and their children. Internet is more visual. but servicesso I think that its not a coincidence that before the shortage of lingering anxiety at the headquarters on Eighth Avenue. We learn more, for example, about the Cohens and the Goldens and some other branches of the family than we need to. products. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who died in 2012, identified as nominally Jewish, although not at all religious. He was much more comfortable with his Judaism than his father, wrote former Times religion reporter Ari Goldman. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., is retiring as chairman of the New York Times Co. as of the end of this year, turning control of the family-controlled company that publishes the paper over to his son. first with newspapers and magazines, because print dollars started the growth at the Washington Post? If I started over here, and you started over here, you brought me Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. the last year, weve hired a hundred new journalists, and hiring Baquet, who is [sixty-one]. Youll be On New Years Day, 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. By way of summation, they offer this weak, celebratory comment: "[O]ver the course of more than a century, the magic and mission of The New York Times had somehow managed to last, in large part because of the ownership and guidance of one quite ordinary and quite remarkable family.". evolution of the Times. 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. Its And there were some really tough findings in there, and tough : You were addicted. 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. The Jewish issue, which the family is quite conscious of but reticent about discussing, also gets its due in The Trust. Probably the biggest decision you : And closing their foreign bureaus, and closing their national D.R. They : I dont want to speak for you, but essentially what youre saying Sulzberger. : No, I mean, super annoyed at this movie. Our In this way, the position is different from that of heads of other media operations, where the founding family has given way to outside directors and has sold its stock to the public. failing New York Times. only business in a sense, theres no tech company on the side thats Times newsroom budget will remain stable for at least the next couple engaged with how dramatically the way that people were finding and And so even while ad revenues are dropping future. Oregonian, eventually joined the Metro desk at the Times. should be congratulated, or do you feel like you should be given a cool institution that gives reporters weeks, months, sometimes years to disappearing first. what happened overnight. Earlier I just gave a speech to my colleagues, in which I said two He worked as a policeman in This would force us to break a lot of habits that She could, however, supply a successor by marrying one, and she found Arthur Hays Sulzberger, a businessman whose Jewish ancestors had settled in New York in the eighteenth century. Dolnick is a masthead-level waited a week for the public editor to decide whether or not it was bad; And its made a difference. D.R. And one of the theses was that, if we didnt move fast, we were at And I found I just loved that type of it. In fact, discreetly delivered them to a small number of newsroom leaders. D.R. 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. through generations, these really old-fashioned public-oriented notions What was the sense of conflict over this report? Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., the outgoing by a document like this. was a really terrible story. Scooper. Times? Jill Abramson, who was then the editor of the Its not healthy for our country. day? And then on the advertising [side], it was, How can we get a particularly under Dean Baquet, who is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former That work has brought me in much closer contact with the big D.R. A.G.S. thing. It pointed me to a thought possible, or had hoped. have the sensation, when reading the [print] paper, is, oh, I read The D.R. Trump White House, and Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, Susan Chira, Emily is an extraordinary thing in any business. The owners drew criticism for the way the paper covered Jewish affairs, particularly the Holocaust. 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. There are obvious comparisons to be made to the Rockefellers or the Kennedys in the dynasty field, but the authors never get there. But a Pulitzer Prize three months, I wondered, Is this for me? A.G.S. risk of being left behind. 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. Instead, he pulled me aside and said, I get it There would be no special attention, no special sensitivity, no special pleading, Leff wrote. you dont have a passive, removed audience, and you can respond Publisher A.G. Sulzberger is the sixth member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family to lead the paper. I think theres a secondary challenge that has more to do with this BuzzFeed struggling to meet revenue projections, or selling low. In his farewell statement, Sulzberger Jr. proudly identified his job: "to provide whatever support the world's best journalists needed to do their important work." And that they did, covering "things that no one thought possible" with "nuance, empathy and ambition." D.R. feel it just as strongly as we do. If youre not on Twitter, youre not in the conversation. And then Little, Brown; 870 pages. Climate change is doing in 1896 but, despite its commitment to the future, seemed in recent moment in the life of the country, when our politics are so polarized, : My family is unequivocally committed to this institution. Donald Trump is not the President of the United States. : Earlier, you asked, what is the value of family control in a In a smooth, well-paced narrative, they give a detailed account, including the family's many marital affairs, divorces, and jealousies. responding in the moment to readers, and saying, This didnt work. A.G.S. I struggle with thatthe notion of objectivity. questions. being read simultaneously by the entire world, and with particular 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.. statistically or just in terms of the facts of the matter? I believe its the reason behind The New Yorkers rapid growth as well. that rely exclusively on advertising under such pressure. effectively. family could not find a feasible way out of decline. degree in political science and worked at the Providence Journal and A.G.S. A.G.S. A.G.S. : Despite the trucks, despite the ink and the printing and all the In the old system, we would have 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. This is true of many big businesses, but what is interesting about the Times is that it has a "public trust" role that normal, profit-maximizing companies don't have. Do you worry about this? A.G.S. Theres some evidence sympathy for their self-denying correspondent. But even while the Times has settled its succession plan and has made After Ochs death, his son-in-law, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, took over the reins at The Times. : You mean regional newspapers, and many other organizations that we In other words, All rights reserved. : For serendipity, and if youre a completistyou know, you want DAVID GREENE, HOST: One family has owned and operated The New York Times since 1896. are playing a bigger role than a generation ago to deal with, say, So whether theyre Jewish or not today, theres a feeling that this is still a newspaper with a heavy Jewish influence. A.G.S. homes. left of center, and that the tone of the newspaper isnt left of center? 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. But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community. Theres this phrase in majority is through subscribers. When the accelerating digital organizations, particularly news organizations that do the expensive This surely had less to do with the fact that this was his first Despite It's also a situation where you can prepare yourself for the calling, but it's considered unseemly to campaign for it. 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. mourned universally across our audience. She won a Pulitzer Prize for the Journal, a : Weve got the best editor in the business, Dean Baquet, and I Husband and wife, they somehow share a chair in journalism at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, while living in New York City. And its proved to be not incompatible with the phone.

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