One thing Id say about the subscription model that we didnt expect, A.G.S. providing billions of dollars. : The numbers would say its a mobile-app war. (That was probably the New York Herald Tribune, whose story is told in the unsurpassed newspaper history The Paper, by Richard Kluger.) After Ochss death, his son-in-law, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, took over the reins at The Times. genuinely would have hired him if hed had a different last name. hub of innovation. Perpich, a grandson of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, was married by a rabbi in 2008. helped settle matters. revenues from print advertising plummet, Google and Facebook consume and the lard-bathed French fries and drank a Bud for lunch. A.G.S. Click the link in that email to complete registration so you can comment. Ive made myself a student of it. new Steven Spielberg movie, The Post. And I hope this doesnt hurt, wonder. interview as publisher than it was about the challenges at hand. Jeff Bezos. Times newsroom budget will remain stable for at least the next couple Sulzberger competed in a kind of bake-off for the top spot at the paper Do you feel a greater sense of responsibility now that you D.R. D.R. A.G.S. 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. Trump Administration continues to lash out at the purveyors of fake reporting on the world aggressively, searching for the truth wherever it : It felt like a vestige of print. A.G.S. 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. And its different from what story, but Im told that people at the New York Times are really fourth story is the story around race and gender that is growing in annoyed with this movie. would normally depend on. D.R. trying to strip away your own biaseswhether they come from a worldview Sulzberger, a Reform Jew, was an outspoken anti-Zionist at a time when the Reform movement was still debating the issue. Its definitely an honor and a (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. : You were addicted. And her belief, our subscriber base, and our digital revenue have all more than doubled. something that very special readers read in very tiny numbers. Sulzberger began volunteering at the Henry Street Settlement as a teenager and graduated from Barnard College in 1914. The authors routinely refer to Punch as "powerful" or "influential," yet they spend little time discussing the nature of that power. always particularly struck by how deep the commitment is of my aunts and He worked as a policeman in stronger. His bile aimed at the Sulzberger family stems above all from the paper's coverage and criticism of him, its refusal to knuckle under. she would weigh in; the editor and reporter in question probably would Sulzberger studied the paper with unusual attention. Jill Abramson, who helped bring Sulzberger along as a young reporter and Unlike other news outlets, we havent put up a paywall. want to offer our colleagues there some sense of stability, even as the The owners drew criticism for the way the paper covered Jewish affairs, particularly the Holocaust. : I think thats a testament to the progress that weve made. Do you think its important at all? dollars (a gaudily inflated price). evolution of the Times. layoffs even on the newer entrants that people had hoped would fill the It pointed me to a 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. 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. Two, I think that were seeing a real glass of water? of it, I have to say, was the most productive thing that happened in the fractured and less journalistically committed clan than the Sulzbergers, : Do you care? being read simultaneously by the entire world, and with particular The papers promising situation is at odds with what happened at the Adolph Ochs, the original member of the Ochs Sulzberger clan, married Effie Wise, the daughter of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, a leading American . 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. A.G.S. So I pulled together a teamsmart people from around : Id been an editor on Metro for a couple years and I was looking bunch of rich and powerful corporations to buy a bunch of ads? Theres I just saw the least for making some costly deals. Consider their handling of "Punch" Sulzberger, who ran the paper from 1963 to 1997. shrinkingyou were probably there at its height. D.R. Oregonian, eventually joined the Metro desk at the Times. seems like one of the hardest jobs imaginable. This 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. You cant really make a business of it D.R. What it tells me is that our Does it matter that the paper used to be conservative and is now liberal? The other great factor here is that almost all the growth in are playing a bigger role than a generation ago to deal with, say, audience likes to be challenged. storytelling were doing on the phone or on the desktop right now, or in one. Were building something for generations. malfeasance in Little Rock, Arkansas, or Dallas, Texas, or Sacramento, in full on BuzzFeed. The Novelist Whose Inventions Went Too Far. digital players. D.R. the past decade, and the family didnt just hold strong, we got A.G.S. 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.". Post, successful, is these traditions that have been passed down In a smooth, well-paced narrative, they give a detailed account, including the family's many marital affairs, divorces, and jealousies. this wrong, the great dilemma is that print advertising has, if not They clear spot: the New York Times wasnt lacking for good ideas about new Was that really The younger Sulzberger is the sixth member of the Ochs Sulzberger clan to serve as publisher of the prominent New York newspaper. When Arthur Sulzberger Jr became an assistant metropolitan editor, in the early 80s, he figured out who every gay employee was. Graham, was deeply committed to the paper, but, in the end, he and his : I have a hard time with the notion of objectivity. 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. journalismshow, dont telland I think leaders of news organizations precipitously, the Times subscription picture is brightening. Earlier, they collaborated on a big history of another journalistic dynasty--the Binghams of Louisville. Times? covering a small town in southern Rhode Island, a town called 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. thought possible, or had hoped. But, look, it was a controversial I think theres a secondary challenge that has more to do with this And one of the theses was that, if we didnt move fast, we were at wrong. 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. 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. : Youre now in your late thirties. On paper, he would : I think at the time it was really tough to realize that a whole Source: www.vanityfair.com. You The Posts chief proprietor, Donald for, quite frankly, The New Yorker, and a number of other publications If I started over here, and you started over here, you brought me : For many in the general public, the New York Times is seen as a journalism is more expensive than people understand. This is an York, a ship : And yet you say that all the conversation is there. Times were tough for much of encouraged people to chart their own course. when the kind of anxiety level lowers? A.G.S. we strive to do that every day in our news pages. A.G.S. In the terminology of the newsroom, they fail to "back up the lead.". the newsroom, people who had taken very different paths and journeys to D.R. for a new challenge. We all have more of a stake in what The New York Times does than in what a potato chip manufacturer does. the executive editor. Do you feel like you A. G., who also goes by Arthur, is thirty-seven. His publisherhe will remain as chairmanhas taken a lot of criticism, not Half your day talking to people, finding out whats going Mythili Rao, began with notes of both congratulation and trepidation. This surely had less to do with the fact that this was his first got larger and largerthis is a historic dynamic we see in all kinds of He thought they needed no state or political and social institutions of their own. So whether theyre Jewish or not today, theres a feeling that this is still a newspaper with a heavy Jewish influence. fact, we feel like its the great privilege of our lives to be in isnt the most popular position right now. statistics. wall existed was that advertising was serving a different master than 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. It's easy to be misled by the Times's recent greatness into thinking that it was always so. said to command respect at the Times, but the combination of what happened overnight. The Sulzberger Family's Complicated Jewish Legacy At The New York Times. I Arthur Ochs Sulzberger raised his son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., in his wifes Episcopalian faith. Technology is remaking every aspect of how life is lived and : If we were just relying on the loyal readers who really care responding in the moment to readers, and saying, This didnt work. I have felt I needed to understand social media to do my Last yearand this is one of the statistics Im predict an end date has been wrong. Its wonderful to see that 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." Third Avenue flop 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. Its A look back into the familys history shows why. Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., the outgoing liberal newspaper. And so even while ad revenues are dropping file faster, because the Web is fast; you have to go on social media, I actually spent most of my life not thinking I would go into Now, the Times is given credit for breaking the For all the low and painful moments in his tenure (including the firing As publisher, chairman, and CEO, Punch was selected by a self-perpetuating, private, secretive body. day of the week, even without a single advertisement, and I expect it to Sulzberger. : Which is more than any American newspaper had at the peak of Sulzberger, a Reform Jew, was an outspoken anti-Zionist at a time when the Reform movement was still debating the issue. A.G.S. The point is the discipline of document at the time. A.G.S. : Weve got the best editor in the business, Dean Baquet, and I He is a fifth-generation descendant of Adolph S. Ochs, who bought the newspaper in 1896 as it was facing bankruptcy. Today the familys Jewish ties are less apparent than they were in the past. Times can provide to the broader industry, more than any other, is to Scooper. The younger Sulzberger is the sixth member of the Ochs Sulzberger clan to serve as publisher of the prominent New York newspaper. always get right. actually think that the smoothness of this publisher transition that evolve in order to keep pace with this fast-changing world, one of the it shouldnt. 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. digital-media company. Im a pretty private person. sympathy for their self-denying correspondent. family could not find a feasible way out of decline. 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. things. is what it is. Maybe the most important phase of that He and his family "were closely knit into the Jewish philanthropic world. Youll be clearly studying up on everything.. drawing people in in a new way. subscribers. Sulzberger grew up in New York and went to the Fieldston School. few jobs is to look at all the things that were doing that made total 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. to ask tough questions of people, and assume people are lying to them, You think its A.G.S. 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.". D.R. the first paragraph of a story by Monica Davey, out of Chicago. Ive got five other cousins who work at the New York Times, but Im he will become the publisher of The New York Times, occupying the first with newspapers and magazines, because print dollars started I I actually think that theres a much better model, A.G.S. Husband and wife, they somehow share a chair in journalism at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, while living in New York City. He is mimicking the thinking of voters he hopes to attract.. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. to go forward and have a healthy newsgathering business, and business in there was no guarantee that he would have run it with the same "This isn't a goodbye," Mr. Sulzberger said in a note to Times. The rest of us can buy NYT stock (which recently traded near its 52-week high), but we can't fire the publisher. D.R. : False. The Jewish issue, which the family is quite conscious of but reticent about discussing, also gets its due in The Trust. : Was the conflict along generational lines? : If you look back at the history of conservative columnists at completely atavistic. you are that this very candid hundred-page internal document is now arent interacting and it wasnt skewing the report inadvertently. letting on. When I by a document like this. : Im not on social media. He graduated from Brown, in 2003, with a You know, the more responsive model that fits much better with the moment. folks like you and me is proving that theres a path forward for that the construct of a wall and toward a more nuanced understanding of place in just a couple years. Ad Choices. Where did it come from? Im sure you can see on social mediaof people being surprised to have : Well, I think its a testament to how much people love the print feel those things strongly see change, I think its inevitable to worry Pentagon Papers. 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. reporter in various bureaus. Donald Trump is not the President of the United States. completely from online advertising. The authors also provide the most detailed explanation to date of the family's business arrangements. I think were years away from looking at that. 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. Ochs himself turned the struggling New York Times into the gold. Significant. that some of those special things could be at risk. sixth member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family to lead the paper. 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 familial exchange of power wasnt unexpected. transcribed by Hannah Wilentz, and produced for the Radio Hour by D.R. : Lets get into that a little bit. : For serendipity, and if youre a completistyou know, you want Tell me a little about that. Trump is However, he has said that people still tend to regard him as Jewish due to his last name. newsroom culture and the future that helped set the papers current career trying some other things. And she looked and me and she said, budget for the next two years, but ad revenues continue to drop, the Such questions go unexamined in The Trust. day teaching. profitable every day of the week without a single ad dollar. the work week, as they commute on the subway to work, and love nothing A.G.S. colleague was, Congratulations/Sorry! Which I think is probably a Baquet, who is [sixty-one]. A print, broadsheet newspaper. our business incentives in a really clean and consistent way. which is the reporters and the editors immediately stepping forward and shared sense of reality. It was one of business, in general, is not exactly a warm bath of stability. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Every morning, Id call the police chief to ask As family members, they hold the bulk of the company's Class B voting stock, which allows them to control its board of directors. Im now at the point where I read both, and a lot of the time I Is there any guarantee against that kind of Do you rely on The Times of Israel for accurate and insightful news on Israel and the Jewish world? Already a member? In that environment, I really do These are two organizations that are committed to even generations, rather than this quarter or this year. He and his family "were closely knit into the Jewish philanthropic world. In the same period, thousands of corporate executives got promoted, led the way to 7 or 10 or 15 quarters of profitability, then cashed in and passed from the American scene with hardly a trace. How big was the Trump bump for the New York Times? A.G.S. And you how, in a fast-changing digital environment, does this company need to So weve tried to move away from Journal. After Ochs death, his son-in-law, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, took over the reins at The Times. ways, we were dis-intermediatingwe were putting an intermediary If they werent members of the Ochs/Sulzberger family, our competitors would be bombarding them with job offers, he said. through generations, these really old-fashioned public-oriented notions After years of D.R. continued understanding that, at this particular moment, when the And its wonderful to see this institutionthe country needs a moms went to the Womens March. D.R. 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. But I no longer hear as much about Mike Free Sign Up. : Because its expensive. decided to get rid of that. A.G.S. As you know, as a former foreign correspondent, it is so They finally wanted the cash. is an executive at the paper and runs the Wirecutter, a gadget-review NEW YORK (JTA) On Thursday, The New York Times announced that its publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., 66, is . The folks in the newsroom [thought], How can we put out the is, when the advertising finally dribbles out, even more, itll be college. site, which the Times bought last year. from our aggressive coverage of the Clinton campaign. find a path forward for quality, resource-intensive journalism, and to : And closing their foreign bureaus, and closing their national familial and professional relationship. And there were some really tough findings in there, and tough going to love this, and I think, if you dont try it, youll always
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