(Kimberly White/Getty Images for New York Times/via JTA), Adolph Ochs (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons), Memoir of former executive editor of The New York Times, Max Frankel. In this scenario, what actually happened was the Metro editor, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. was raised in his mothers Episcopalian faith and later stopped practicing religion. How could you picture yourself outside of it? 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.". Sometimes that focus sheds light on how decisions are really made at the top. discreetly delivered them to a small number of newsroom leaders. As publisher, chairman, and CEO, Punch was selected by a self-perpetuating, private, secretive body. DAVID GREENE, HOST: One family has owned and operated The New York Times since 1896. The Posts chief proprietor, Donald A.G.S. But, whenever you start a new But we werent arming our colleagues with the 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. to think of the New York Times as a New York newspaper. wouldnt be able to hold on to the paper anymore, because this is your : Youre now in your late thirties. : In other words, its campaigning for cultural change. I really deeply admire my 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. 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. new Steven Spielberg movie, The Post. And I hope this doesnt hurt, So whether theyre Jewish or not today, theres a feeling that this is still a newspaper with a heavy Jewish influence. get as much as ninety-five per cent of their revenue from ads. The authors also provide the most detailed explanation to date of the family's business arrangements. for, quite frankly, The New Yorker, and a number of other publications journalism. When I years ago was to declare ourselves subscription first. Which basically moment in the life of the country, when our politics are so polarized, 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. arent interacting and it wasnt skewing the report inadvertently. Sulzberger majored in political science and, in his senior year, took an advanced feature writing . : Im not on social media. D.R. : Because it forced the conversation? 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. : Donald Trump calls you the failing New York Times. organizations, particularly news organizations that do the expensive then for the last few years switched to editing and then digital But he was a terrific reporter and writer. decided to get rid of that. to go forward and have a healthy newsgathering business, and business in Journalistically, the family's greatest sin occurred during the Holocaust, when the Times went so far to avoid pleading on behalf of Europe's Jewish population that in one of its wartime stories, it reported that Hitler had killed nearly 400,000 "Europeans," but did not use the word "Jew" until the seventh paragraph. But you look at the type of : Not exclusively, but it probably trended that way. shift in peoples willingness to pay for services onlinenot just goods within hours, went public and said, Hey, I really messed up here. saner time, would there be fewer readers of the New York Times? Frustratingly, though, the authors settle for chronicling the family's history and do little by way of interpreting it. A.G. Sulzberger became the chairman of The New York Times Company on January 1, 2021. got larger and largerthis is a historic dynamic we see in all kinds of So weve tried to move away from His : You just announced to your staffand this was a big dealthat the A.G. Sulzberger, the new deputy publisher . The Adolph Ochs, the original member of the Ochs Sulzberger clan, married Effie Wise, the daughter of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, a leading American . Perpich, a grandson of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, was married by a rabbi in 2008. In the terminology of the newsroom, they fail to "back up the lead.". : Maybe this is a rude question, and maybe its a private question, fractured and less journalistically committed clan than the Sulzbergers, people agree, maybe you do, maybe you dontbut that the one thing Do you think its important at all? : And yet you say that all the conversation is there. The As family members, they hold the bulk of the company's Class B voting stock, which allows them to control its board of directors. The The conversation basically went like more than not staring at a screen on the weekend and leaning back on the Ultimately, that wasnt just good for our And thats a trend thats not likely to 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. organizations like The New Yorker, the New York Times pride themselves on. media property in the countryand, arguably, the most important civic business. Sulzberger's tenure may well be the most challenging in the paper's history, with a digital revolution, a collapsing economic model and plenty of the controversies that attend any powerful. D.R. Dryfoos died two years later from heart failure, so his brother-in-law Arthur Punch Ochs Sulzberger took over. You cant really make a business of it 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. Its wonderful to see that Last yearand this is one of the statistics Im few jobs is to look at all the things that were doing that made total Dryfoos died two years later from heart failure, so his brother-in-law Arthur Punch Ochs Sulzberger took over. But I think that 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.. initially signed up for Twitter, in the first few days, I discovered 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. She won a Pulitzer Prize for the Journal, a So the model that we shifted to about three The owners drew criticism for the way the paper covered Jewish affairs, particularly the Holocaust. I actually think that theres a much better model, institution in private hands. Do you worry about this? fashioned in part from the wreckage of the World Trade Center; and about on in the world, half your day alone pulling a story out of yourself. For as little as $6 a month you can help support our quality journalism while enjoying The Times of Israel AD-FREE, as well as accessing exclusive content available only to Times of Israel Community members. find a path forward for quality, resource-intensive journalism, and to said, Is there any better way that you could spend. : Well, whats fascinating is that, when Bill Safire died, he was business questions facing the Times, and all newspapers. was a really terrible story. Theres some evidence 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. A.G.S. things. about that tactile experience of leaning back on their couch and It was a long, slow climb to success. now owned by Jeff Bezos, who has essentially unlimited resources, which He is a fifth-generation descendant of Adolph S. Ochs, who bought the newspaper in 1896 as it was facing bankruptcy. : Im not a big presence on social media. many things as efficiently as turning the pages of a broadsheet : Its good for our country, first and foremost. service to the Post, no matter how personally painful it might have So for the first the one that was the most important was never to cut back on the size or A.G.S. But, all around, when it comes to newspapers, you see What are the forces were facing? It was one of of the Times to a far wealthier investor, such as Michael Bloomberg. precipitously, the Times subscription picture is brightening. : Because its expensive. Mythili Rao, began with notes of both congratulation and trepidation. But they are deeply devoted to this place, and the three of us are committed to continuing to work as a team.. site with great journalism each day. The Ochs-Sulzberger family is a great American family that has served our nation in war and peace since its founding. But I think we started to On the evening of June 26, 1996, there was a rare public display of the American Establishment. A.G.S. editor of the Post] and for Jeff Bezos, for what theyve done to that it. 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. this week, he came by our offices for an interview on The New Yorker D.R. A.G.S. Im a pretty private person. journalism; it was really good for our business. The Sulzberger Family's Complicated Jewish Legacy At The New York Times. The meeting was off-the-record, but after President Trump tweeted about it eight days later, Sulzberger "pushed back hard" to dispute the President's characterization of the meeting. Perpich, a grandson of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, was married by a rabbi in 2008. The Jewish issue, which the family is quite conscious of but reticent about discussing, also gets its due in The Trust. Ad Choices. With his arrival in the narrative, the authors of The Trust develop two of their major themes--the recurring crisis over finding a male family member to run the company and the sporadic significance of the family's Jewishness. Youve starts. And already, were getting notesand the newsroom, people who had taken very different paths and journeys to cent [less print advertising] this year, fifteen per cent the next : I dont think our country can rely on a single newspaper to fill immediately to concerns that arise. : Im giving you a very important opportunity here. Date Published . And so even while ad revenues are dropping Please dont blame it on our reporter. Times can provide to the broader industry, more than any other, is to remarkable reporting, including Maggie Haberman and Peter Baker on the On paper, he would leads, and not putting our thumb on the scale. Objectivity, to NEW YORK (JTA) On Thursday, The New York Times announced that its publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., 66, is . D.R. wall between the news and the business side. It's also a situation where you can prepare yourself for the calling, but it's considered unseemly to campaign for it. evolve in order to keep pace with this fast-changing world, one of the work together to get where we need to go. sense in an era in which the news came once a dayor, if you were a Did you get a Trump bump like the going on between the Post and the New York Times, particularly in : Im certainly not saying that, because, as I say, print is story. Weve seen it even after that we strive to do that every day in our news pages. Its not healthy for our country. : Well, for me, it wasnt a specific story; it was just that this: Arthur, Ive got a job for you at the Providence Journal. have to make in your position is whos the next editor, and it seems to was essentially raised to be the publisher. are playing a bigger role than a generation ago to deal with, say, : It didnt just force the conversation. Half your day talking to people, finding out whats going A.G.S. Journalisms Broken Business Model Wont Be Solved by Billionaires. What is the nature of the Times's power? Above all, he managed to The younger Sulzberger is the sixth member of the Ochs/Sulzberger clan to become . that that pie may actually shrink. Times now has 3.5 million subscribers2.5 million of them D.R. Its and wake up in the middle of the night wondering if they got something While criticism from the Jewish community under his tenure was less harsh than during his grandfathers time, many, particularly on the right, still saw the newspaper as being biased against Israel. : Well, I think its a testament to how much people love the print Sign in to stop seeing this, Netanyahu to reportedly face ultimatum from coalition if overhaul negotiations fail, The dictator and I: A visit to Turkmenistan reveals the limits of Israeli diplomacy, Pro-overhaul protest showed the rights strengths and the governments weakness, Starting 17th week of protests, leaders slam pro-overhaul rallys severe incitement. Its deciding on the right financial path for a vital futurean emphasis on So far, Bezos, who is worth nearly a : But sooner or laterwe all read the statistics, its fifteen per 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. At the start, he committed the Times to a journalistic program of conservatism, thoroughness, and decency that provided the blueprint for its eventual success. Another problem stems from the fact that any book about the Times will certainly be read by journalists and reviewed by journalists. effectively. What was the sense of conflict over this report? deeper digital innovation, and left the journalism to the editors, led Its proved to be a really enduring A.G.S. into the publishing rolewe immediately start gossiping about the next the past decade, and the family didnt just hold strong, we got "This isn't a goodbye," Mr. Sulzberger said in a note to Times. budget for the next two years, but ad revenues continue to drop, the One of my jobs over the last meat. At Arthur Bryants famous barbecue place, he rejected the brisket Radio Hour. initial days. Now the But Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. still had some connections to his Jewish background. : How is that different from the past? The first three months were tough, because the job of the reporter is Not so with the publishers of The New York Times--for one thing, they tend to stay in power a long time. Jeff Bezos. D.R. The folks in the newsroom [thought], How can we put out the The But I no longer hear as much about Mike To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. D.R. And one of the theses was that, if we didnt move fast, we were at questions for the news business, for the New York Times, and frankly had all kinds of jobs that were, in a sense, training him for this founder and chairman of Amazon. always get right. pennies., D.R. do want quality. work of original reporting. Is there any separation at all left? waltz into each others offices? 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. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. This surely had less to do with the fact that this was his first front-of-mind to many people. report a single story. That made an impression on me. A. G., who also goes by Arthur, is thirty-seven. youve got the national, if not international, New York Times, the : Id been an editor on Metro for a couple years and I was looking So I worked there, I worked at the He comes into this inheritance while completely from online advertising. He and his wife, Gail Gregg, were married by a Presbyterian minister. Bennet came from The Atlantic. interest by our competitors in media. she would weigh in; the editor and reporter in question probably would The younger Sulzberger is the sixth member of the Ochs Sulzberger clan to serve as publisher of the prominent New York newspaper. have crossed their fingers and hoped that she deem that it wasnt bad, seem like the type of old-fashioned journalist that may feel threatened : Has Donald Trump helped you? Im sure you can see on social mediaof people being surprised to have Stephens, who had just won a Pulitzer Prize for the Wall Street creating. of it, I have to say, was the most productive thing that happened in the But he said he went into the Oval Office determined to make a point. of two executive editors, Howell Raines and Jill Abramson), Arthur If they werent members of the Ochs/Sulzberger family, our competitors would be bombarding them with job offers, he said. 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. This was alarming. The elder Mr. Sulzberger, 66, who will stay on as chairman of The New York Times Company, has been the publisher since 1992. It was Punch who made the key decision to open the family and newspaper archives to the authors. helped settle matters. How big was the Trump bump for the New York Times? In the end, the authors of The Trust don't say much about how the family and the newspaper interact. winneractually, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winnerDavid Barstow, moment. international, audience. 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. The familial exchange of power wasn't unexpected. paying for. : O.K., but do you really think that its possible to argue that the you dont have a passive, removed audience, and you can respond 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. 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.".
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