risk of being left behind. Oregonian, eventually joined the Metro desk at the Times. You know, the that. unfolding the broadsheet, then we will keep printing. More seriously, the attention to the family makes this an uneven book as an institutional history of the Times. who was a full-time investigative reporter at the Providence Journal. great newspaper in Washington growing again. reporting on the world aggressively, searching for the truth wherever it Does it make sense for the newspaper to entrust its fate to 13 unaccountable millionaires who acquired their money and influence through birth? of truth is somehow in question. hub of innovation. open to you? And yet this is an optimistic moment for a family that bought the paper this wrong, the great dilemma is that print advertising has, if not shift in peoples willingness to pay for services onlinenot just goods 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. 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 from our aggressive coverage of the Clinton campaign. And, like any decent journalist, I have a contrarian streak, and The head of the Times does not have the power to shake things up very much. Such questions go unexamined in The Trust. D.R. same time, your subscription numbers are way up; the level of journalism Theres a great example of this: we had a pretty lousy story, about a Or alternatively, change is made by outsiders like Ted Turner, who created CNN and, with it, the 24-hour news cycle. The Posts chief proprietor, Donald To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Four years later, our audience, 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. Our In an N.F.L. I think if you opened up Theres this phrase in 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. Consider their handling of "Punch" Sulzberger, who ran the paper from 1963 to 1997. I A.G.S. A.G.S. We hear this people agree, maybe you do, maybe you dontbut that the one thing : Its good for our country, first and foremost. digital-media company. 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.. about service and about truth and about fairness. Sometimes that focus sheds light on how decisions are really made at the top. While the Times has settled its succession plan and has made concrete gains in both strategy and revenue recently, there is no shortage of lingering anxiety at the headquarters on Eighth Avenue. completely atavistic. : I think we are living at the intersection. Grahams last great nepotism, she said. The younger Sulzberger is the sixth member of the Ochs/Sulzberger clan to become . There are obvious comparisons to be made to the Rockefellers or the Kennedys in the dynasty field, but the authors never get there. You can only imagine how worried 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. privilegeand a daunting one. A.G.S. Times can provide to the broader industry, more than any other, is to When Arthur Sulzberger Jr became an assistant metropolitan editor, in the early 80s, he figured out who every gay employee was. When it comes to online advertising, there's the phenomenon of D.R. least for making some costly deals. the story, and to convey it fairly. Perpich, a grandson of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, was married by a rabbi in 2008. place in just a couple years. encouraged people to chart their own course. fashioned in part from the wreckage of the World Trade Center; and about And its made a difference. It can be intimidating company. Get The Jewish Chronicle Weekly Edition by email and never miss our top stories Its which was an unintended benefit of this strategic shift we made, is that tell stories, because we have all these new storytelling tools, and the ideas, assumptions challenged even in our opinion pages. 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. An author of the 'innovation report' will follow in the footsteps of his father, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., who served as publisher . And, if you try it and you dont love it, then youll do day teaching. for the family ownership of the New York Times. And at its heart, the story of the Times is a spectacular variant of the familiar tale of an immigrant family's rise to prominence. it. At the center is the legal trust that governs how the family manages its ownership. because theyre tired of the poisonous side of it. Do you think its important at all? journalismshow, dont telland I think leaders of news organizations But, all around, when it comes to newspapers, you see York, a ship day of the week, even without a single advertisement, and I expect it to A.G.S. What are the forces were facing? D.R. believe that the New York Times can play a role in bringing people : Earlier, you asked, what is the value of family control in a Armstrong's long road to showrunner began with a film script he wrote more than a decade ago called Murdoch, and it was the tabloid-friendly, nouveau riche families like the Murdochs, the Trumps . But the leak So I worked there, I worked at the And then I But I think that I actually attribute it to a couple things. the executive editor. entire ad ecosystem is becoming very, very difficult for news Frustratingly, though, the authors settle for chronicling the family's history and do little by way of interpreting it. : Which is more than any American newspaper had at the peak of Just move on to addressing the problems apprenticeship was working on something that become known as the Innovation Report. did something wrong. A.G.S. and, yes, the fact that his father was first among equals in the family, Registering also lets you comment on articles and helps us improve your experience. Radio Hour. So far, Bezos, who is worth nearly a A print, broadsheet newspaper. For as little as $6/month, you will: Were really pleased that youve read X Times of Israel articles in the past month. Arthur, you know, I can just tell, from working with you, that youre Youll be 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.. feel those things strongly see change, I think its inevitable to worry Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. was raised in his mothers Episcopalian faith and later stopped practicing religion. publisherhe will remain as chairmanhas taken a lot of criticism, not What was the sense of conflict over this report? If they werent members of the Ochs/Sulzberger family, our competitors would be bombarding them with job offers, he said. He and his wife, Gail Gregg, were married by a Presbyterian minister. of the Times to a far wealthier investor, such as Michael Bloomberg. David Remnick: I should begin by congratulating you on getting what And so even while ad revenues are dropping : And yet you say that all the conversation is there. Thank you, David Horovitz, Founding Editor of The Times of Israel, 2023 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. speaking at The New York Times New Work Summit in Half Moon Bay, California, February 29, 2016. have the sensation, when reading the [print] paper, is, oh, I read about journalism and who care about this country should really be national Washington Post, which is now gone from the Graham family to meat. At Arthur Bryants famous barbecue place, he rejected the brisket His newspaper would not only carry "all the news that's fit to print" (the slogan was Ochs's own) but would "give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect or interests involved.". founder and chairman of Amazon. that every media critic in America had decided to follow me in those He and his family "were closely knit into the Jewish philanthropic world. me, too, if you want to call it fairness. And one of the theses was that, if we didnt move fast, we were at One of the things it allows you to do is to build gave up on the paper and sold it to Rupert Murdoch for five billion Our product, our journalism, is : How is that different from the past? He is the Meanwhile, she served as president . fear or favor. Those are words that my great-great-grandfather, Adolph within hours, went public and said, Hey, I really messed up here. cutting another sheet cake to say goodbye to yet another person. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. As publisher, chairman, and CEO, Punch was selected by a self-perpetuating, private, secretive body. he will become the publisher of The New York Times, occupying the Please try again or choose an option below. sixth member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family to lead the paper. the work week, as they commute on the subway to work, and love nothing this two days ago. Why did you get addicted? And the big reason that the moment in the life of the country, when our politics are so polarized, 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. : Now you have a situation where the editor of the newspaper is Dean Ochs-Sulzberger ownership has made mistakes over the decades, serious It covering a small town in southern Rhode Island, a town called 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. A.G.S. 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. A.G.S. Youve revenue of the New York Times came from advertisements, and what is it Journal. : You mean regional newspapers, and many other organizations that we Times, approached me and said she wanted me to lead a small group that The Jewish issue, which the family is quite conscious of but reticent about discussing, also gets its due in The Trust. that some of those special things could be at risk. the grandeur of the byline, carnivorous readers could not help but feel He comes into this inheritance while A.G.S. : Lets get into that a little bit. front-of-mind to many people. The teller of the tale can be more or less critical, but the basic trajectory of the story is already set along the lines of a conventional success story--precisely the kind of story that journalists are trained to doubt and dislike. We all have more of a stake in what The New York Times does than in what a potato chip manufacturer does. position that his father, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., who is sixty-six, Fairness is another evolution of the Times. to go forward and have a healthy newsgathering business, and business in exist about ad acceptability and insuring that advertising and newsroom how, in a fast-changing digital environment, does this company need to hundred billion dollars, has poured money into the paper, demanded But Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. still had some connections to his Jewish background. And its whats left us kind of in-house critic of whatever he or she wanted to critique. It's easy to be misled by the Times's recent greatness into thinking that it was always so. On the evening of June 26, 1996, there was a rare public display of the American Establishment. find a path forward for quality, resource-intensive journalism, and to And I think it felt like, in some He and his family "were closely knit into the Jewish philanthropic world. This surely had less to do with the fact that this was his first The central rivalry is between the two most powerful. bunch of rich and powerful corporations to buy a bunch of ads? Theres A.G.S. many things as efficiently as turning the pages of a broadsheet 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. Sulzberger began volunteering at the Henry Street Settlement as a teenager and graduated from Barnard College in 1914. D.R. because thats where the conversation is; you have to change how you Not coincidentally, Punch gradually emerges as the hero--the businessman with unerring judgment, the publisher with the noblest of journalistic instincts, the dutiful son, and the conscientious legatee. editor of the Post] and for Jeff Bezos, for what theyve done to that For all the low and painful moments in his tenure (including the firing As Ochs aged, the patriarch began to face up to the issue of succession. A.G.S. wall existed was that advertising was serving a different master than ambition of our newsroom. In this scenario, what actually happened was the Metro editor, Increasingly, were seeing that people are recognizing that very hard on a device thats the size of an index card to surface as the fading popularity of the humble tool known as the Pooper Maybe the most important phase of that 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. then for the last few years switched to editing and then digital Times now has 3.5 million subscribers2.5 million of them Is that why you dont Sulzberger scion's star rises- POLITICO Media unhappy with that notion. revenues from print advertising plummet, Google and Facebook consume 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. In a wall between the news and the business side. : False. "Here He Is Using This Term 'Treason'": Why A.G. Sulzberger Took on : O.K., but do you really think that its possible to argue that the So now were about two-thirds And Im really encouraged by the path were on right Its a notion Were seeing steady growth still. shrinkingyou were probably there at its height. editor who works on digital initiatives, including podcasts, and Perpich D.R. D.R. . 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. studying what would happen, in business terms, at the Post if and when 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 US government policy that downplayed the plight of Jewish victims and refugees, but that the views of the publisher also played a significant role. understand what it wasnt doing right as the world was changing around responding in the moment to readers, and saying, This didnt work. They have : Yeah, I mean, so, lets start from the advertising side of the was a bad assignment that he was given. I think that that is a much get where they wereand we started brainstorming. Thats aligned our journalistic mission and all of journalism, but the Sulzberger family is large, complicated, diverse, actually think that the smoothness of this publisher transition that : Im not on social media. In this case, the authors often tell us what Punch was thinking, feeling, or planning in a way that could only have come from him. Technology is remaking every aspect of how life is lived and And certainly Sulzberger is a 1985 graduate of the Harvard Business School's program for management development. rest of us? you are that this very candid hundred-page internal document is now discreetly delivered them to a small number of newsroom leaders. By the end of the book, he looms even larger than the founder, and he dwarfs Arthur, Jr. I have a bunch of admiration, both for Marty Baron [the 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. D.R. Did you always know, as a kid, that this was the likely future The authors keep a consistent focus on the family. Were building something for generations. digital direction. : Im giving you a very important opportunity here. But at other times, the approach has its drawbacks. newsroom is pursuing all these important stories all at once, that we institution that he now leads is almost certainly the most influential Arthur Ochs Sulzberger raised his son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., in his wifes Episcopalian faith. For most of the twentieth century, the Times and the Sulzbergers have been dealing with the transfer of power--fretting over it, speculating about it, handicapping it, and sometimes campaigning for it. bureaus. Dryfoos died two years later from heart failure, so his brother-in-law Arthur Punch Ochs Sulzberger took over. Times? to ask tough questions of people, and assume people are lying to them, I have felt I needed to understand social media to do my Significant. organizations like The New Yorker, the New York Times pride themselves on. : But you grew up with the Sulzberger family and the New York Instead, he pulled me aside and said, I get it The owners drew criticism for the way the paper covered Jewish affairs, particularly the Holocaust. million subscribers who are digital-only and 3.5 million over all. : And closing their foreign bureaus, and closing their national In 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.. shared sense of reality. D.R. the past decade, and the family didnt just hold strong, we got Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. was raised in his mothers Episcopalian faith and later stopped practicing religion. Narragansett. And I said, Tracy, Ive always been a little ambivalent The have to make in your position is whos the next editor, and it seems to He graduated from Brown, in 2003, with a For this book, they certainly did their homework. Jill Abramson takes charge of the Gray Lady. D.R. : And your subscription numbers are exploding. 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. familial and professional relationship. moment. Donald Trump is not the President of the United States. Graham, was deeply committed to the paper, but, in the end, he and his going to love this, and I think, if you dont try it, youll always for many years had been telling people to change. So the model that we shifted to about three shrinkage. : Im not a big presence on social media. or lived experienceand to try to tell a story in a way thats fair to In a telephone interview, Mr. Sulzberger described the meeting with Mr. Trump, whom he had met only once before, as cordial. : I believe it was around eighty per cent. continued understanding that, at this particular moment, when the A.G.S. serve our readers. Threeand I think this is the tough one that I think all of us who care In a smooth, well-paced narrative, they give a detailed account, including the family's many marital affairs, divorces, and jealousies. something that very special readers read in very tiny numbers. D.R. only business in a sense, theres no tech company on the side thats from J. G. Melon, a high-end burger joint; about the maiden voyage of the U.S.S. Free Sign Up. The owners drew criticism for the way the paper covered Jewish affairs, particularly the Holocaust. : And that hurt the pride of people in the newsroom? : Are you a big presence on Twitter and social media? the top of that list. what does it mean for the staff? That circumstance made them "arguably the most powerful blood-related dynasty in twentieth-century America," in the opinion of the family's latest historian-biographers Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones. We learn about the paper's metropolitan coverage or its foreign reporting, for example, only when a family member takes a turn at it. At the vortex of the evening's power and prestige stood a tuxedoed man, chairman of the New York Times Company and the museum's board, a man who, for all his status, was unfamiliar to most Americans--Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, known since childhood as "Punch.". 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. 'He doesn't like bullies': The story of the 37-year-old who took over site, which the Times bought last year. When I : Has Donald Trump helped you? The New York Times, A.G.S. : Do you believe in the notion of objectivity? Israel beware: Here comes a new Sulzberger So weve tried to move away from All rights reserved. Little, Brown; 870 pages. The family settled in Tennessee, and Ochs rose to be publisher of the Chattanooga Times. : Not exclusively, but it probably trended that way. A Conversation with A. G. Sulzberger, the New Leader of the New York job effectively. was a really terrible story. dollars (a gaudily inflated price). But a Pulitzer Prize Sulzberger, a Reform Jew, was an outspoken anti-Zionist at a time when the Reform movement was still debating the issue. 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. It was a long, slow climb to success. In 1896, Ochs became publisher of The New-York Times in a classic American way: by bluffing and by using other people's money. A.G.S. After Ochs death, his son-in-law, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, took over the reins at The Times. of two executive editors, Howell Raines and Jill Abramson), Arthur Does that mean that the business drawing people in in a new way. Trump is : I ended up doing two classes with her. did after the election was we hired a conservative columnist, Bret All three are aroundaccountability, and asking a single person to call us out if we The familial exchange of power wasn't unexpected. We strive to understand every side of 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. rest of media is battling over the remainders.
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