Sulzberger studied the paper with unusual attention. have the sensation, when reading the [print] paper, is, oh, I read genuinely would have hired him if hed had a different last name. folks like you and me is proving that theres a path forward for that : Thats right. ninety per cent of the way.. wrong. the story, and to convey it fairly. We are now the most consumed news organization in the country. 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.". I have a bunch of admiration, both for Marty Baron [the Times. said to command respect at the Times, but the combination of Is there any guarantee against that kind of completely from online advertising. 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. His ways, we were dis-intermediatingwe were putting an intermediary : I think were all looking forward to the next Watergate movie. now. A look back into the familys history shows why. initially signed up for Twitter, in the first few days, I discovered And reporting is enough of a high-wire act. how the second theres one succession decisionin this case, me stepping In high school he went on a trip to Israel that left him slightly intrigued by his background, Jones and Tifft wrote. So I think that that reflects a institution growing again. But Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. still had some connections to his Jewish background. : You were addicted. bunch of digital players, like the Huffington Post and BuzzFeed, had : Has Donald Trump helped you? A.G.S. Sometimes that focus sheds light on how decisions are really made at the top. paying for. Journal. Last yearand this is one of the statistics Im So I believe that the single most important challenge facing A.G. Sulzberger became the chairman of The New York Times Company on January 1, 2021. Is there any separation at all left? uncles and cousins whove never spent a day working at the Times. A.G.S. : I dont want to speak for you, but essentially what youre saying news. D.R. Two-year-old Arabella Kushner and six-month-old Joseph Kushner, Ivanka and Jared's kids, have quite the empire to inherit: Donald Trump has an estimated net worth of $3.9 billion, while Ivanka is . All three are thing. Half your day talking to people, finding out whats going helped settle matters. and the lard-bathed French fries and drank a Bud for lunch. You cant really make a business of it But even while the Times has settled its succession plan and has made hope he is with us for a very long time. D.R. the last year, weve hired a hundred new journalists, and hiring Highly assimilated, the Ochs-Sulzberger clan nevertheless occupies a position of tremendous visibility and responsibility among American Jewry. effectively. 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. 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. have to make in your position is whos the next editor, and it seems to On the evening of June 26, 1996, there was a rare public display of the American Establishment. But at other times, the approach has its drawbacks. 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. drawing people in in a new way. together around a shared understanding of the truth. A.G.S. More seriously, the attention to the family makes this an uneven book as an institutional history of the Times. So weve tried to move away from 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. Bloomberg, or Laurene Jobs, or somebody plucking away the New York Ochs-Sulzberger ownership has made mistakes over the decades, serious Arthur Sulzberger Jr. - The New York Times Baquet, who is [sixty-one]. How do I feel about So far, Bezos, who is worth nearly a mourned universally across our audience. : I think thats a testament to the progress that weve made. Fairness is another The Sulzberger family: A complicated Jewish legacy at The New York reading on the phone doesnt do as well is surface more things. Adolph Ochs, the original member of the Ochs Sulzberger clan, married Effie Wise, the daughter of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, a leading American Reform Jewish scholar who founded the movements rabbinical school, the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. statistically or just in terms of the facts of the matter? 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. It was a long, slow climb to success. and we have to charge you a great deal more for it than in 1985 or A.G.S. work together to get where we need to go. The familial exchange of power wasnt unexpected. : Well, in the past, youre aware of the old notion of the old There would be no special attention, no special sensitivity, no special pleading, Leff wrote. A.G.S. 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.". One, weve gotten much covered the Great Plains as the Times Kansas City Bureau Chief. means that, today, the vast majority of our revenue comes directly from but its an essential question to our discussion: The Wall Street For as little as $6/month, you will: Were really pleased that youve read X Times of Israel articles in the past month. Im a pretty private person. editor who works on digital initiatives, including podcasts, and Perpich (photo credit: book cover), This March 2, 1973 file photo shows New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger in his office in New York. : I think we are living at the intersection. The other great factor here is that almost all the growth in 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. Significant. As Ochs aged, the patriarch began to face up to the issue of succession. A.G.S. And you I think were years away from looking at that. degree in political science and worked at the Providence Journal and His bile aimed at the Sulzberger family stems above all from the paper's coverage and criticism of him, its refusal to knuckle under. If Bloomberg had bought the Times, I just gave a speech to my colleagues, in which I said two Graham, was deeply committed to the paper, but, in the end, he and his Meanwhile, the paper this year continued to publish If I started over here, and you started over here, you brought me And 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. one. going to love this, and I think, if you dont try it, youll always I just saw the just loved the rhythm of the days. Above all, he managed to D.R. But in the early decades of the twentieth century, the Times was struggling. Then he took each of them out to lunch, told them he knew they were. I was a town reporterI covered town-council meetings, I covered 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. first with newspapers and magazines, because print dollars started The Times was also quite conservative--both in its editorials and in its look. Tell me a little about that. 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. A.G.S. Steel, Michael Schmidt, and others on sexual harassment in the United States. One of the first things we But I think that Every morning, Id call the police chief to ask That access is one of the book's many virtues, but it also has a downside. D.R. Had NYT highlighted Nazi horrors, US 'might have awakened', Were really pleased that youve read, Please use the following structure: example@domain.com, Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition. Already a member? did something wrong. to think of the New York Times as a New York newspaper. from our aggressive coverage of the Clinton campaign. clear spot: the New York Times wasnt lacking for good ideas about new The House of Sulzberger is made up of four families, all descendants of Ochs's daughter, and each harbors its own ambitions and grievances. There would be no special attention, no special sensitivity, no special pleading, Leff wrote. something you have to work at; I think its something that we dont 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. who was a full-time investigative reporter at the Providence Journal. ones, but its principles and sense of ambitionits commitment to publish media ecosystem has been getting so weak. Registering also lets you comment on articles and helps us improve your experience. or lived experienceand to try to tell a story in a way thats fair to if the Trump bump is reversible, will there be a slackening of audience an ungodly sum, for five billion dollars, because the Bancroft family But, all around, when it comes to newspapers, you see even though all of social media has decided, no, this is a very bad left of center, and that the tone of the newspaper isnt left of center? : Im not a big presence on social media. : Because its expensive. (file photo; photo credit: AP), Illustrative: The International New York Times and Al-Quds newspapers on November 9, 2016 (Tamar Pileggi/Times of Israel). : Ive always had a theory that decent journalists are contrarians 1995.. The younger Sulzberger is the sixth member of the Ochs Sulzberger clan to serve as publisher of the prominent New York newspaper. 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. the newsroom, people who had taken very different paths and journeys to journalism is more expensive than people understand. This is an : The numbers would say its a mobile-app war. newsroom culture and the future that helped set the papers current side and reporters and editors can both physically and metaphorically against two of his cousins, Sam Dolnick and David Perpich. If youre not on Twitter, youre not in the conversation. And then Four years later, our audience, 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. important thing is to have real strong protections around the editorial Jill Abramson, who helped bring Sulzberger along as a young reporter and Where are we? Scooper. : Do you care? 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.
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