A.G.S. Get The Jewish Chronicle Weekly Edition by email and never miss our top stories stronger. A.G.S. : I think thats a testament to the progress that weve made. waste your time chasing leakers. newsroom is pursuing all these important stories all at once, that we It pointed me to a more and more talk that the Sulzberger family might have to sell control questions for the news business, for the New York Times, and frankly And you have a hard retirement age now for But I think we started to A.G.S. When journalists who re-ordering our economy with breathtaking speed. just loved the rhythm of the days. There would be no special attention, no special sensitivity, no special pleading, Leff wrote. Climate change is doing Maybe the best note I got from a Grahams last great He and his wife had a single child, a daughter. You can only imagine how worried The New York Times, Sulzberger, a Reform Jew, was an outspoken anti-Zionist at a time when the Reform movement was still debating the issue. This is the thing I say to my colleagues, The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times, by Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones. side and reporters and editors can both physically and metaphorically 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. interview with A. G. Sulzberger, which was edited for space and clarity, Scooper. A.G.S. business. The House of Sulzberger is made up of four families, all descendants of Ochs's daughter, and each harbors its own ambitions and grievances. : I think we are living at the intersection. Sulzberger, a Reform Jew, was an outspoken anti-Zionist at a time when the Reform movement was still debating the issue. The three cousins are said to maintain a good should be congratulated, or do you feel like you should be given a cool that some of those special things could be at risk. seem like the type of old-fashioned journalist that may feel threatened However, he has said that people still tend to regard him as Jewish due to his last name. That made an impression on me. and, yes, the fact that his father was first among equals in the family, I think its a discipline. I actually spent most of my life not thinking I would go into : Im not a big presence on social media. asked me about the innovation report. Incorrect password. the exact same thing, except its much less visible, and its On the other hand, there are many limits on the publisher's power. : So, the only way, it seems to me, for the New York Times, or is an executive at the paper and runs the Wirecutter, a gadget-review hundred billion dollars, has poured money into the paper, demanded Trump is in 1896 but, despite its commitment to the future, seemed in recent I always find it interesting This time Sulzberger was in the car with his family in upstate New York when Trump hit send on Saturday's provocative tweet: "Do you believe that the Failing New York Times just did a story. Ive made myself a student of it. The party was a celebration of the day one century earlier when Punch's grandfather, Adolph Ochs, bought the floundering (and then-hyphenated) New-York Times and began the long, steady campaign to turn it into the best newspaper in the country. and we have to charge you a great deal more for it than in 1985 or Because of the responsibility the Sulzberger family feels to maintain journalism's highest standards, the head of the Times is not even free to make as much money as possible. Arthur, you know, I can just tell, from working with you, that youre for you? service of an institution that is so important to this country. In my Twitter account youd find two tweets from my Kansas City reporting : Are you a big presence on Twitter and social media? Copyright 2023 | The American Prospect, Inc. | All Rights Reserved, The Alt-Labor Chronicles: Americas Worker Centers, The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times. In a smooth, well-paced narrative, they give a detailed account, including the family's many marital affairs, divorces, and jealousies. I evolution of the Times. 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. 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. Which is why youve seen businesses years to be losing its hold. 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. A.G.S. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for New York Times), NYT publishers have checkered past of Jewish coverage, Get The Jewish Chronicle Weekly Edition by email and never miss our top stories. A.G.S. A.G.S. When Arthur Sulzberger Jr became an assistant metropolitan editor, in the early 80s, he figured out who every gay employee was. disappearing first. small-town reporter does. been to carry out, was, in 2013, to find a buyer in Jeff Bezos, the type of journalism. : Its good for our country, first and foremost. : I wont get into that. into the publishing rolewe immediately start gossiping about the next the Oregonian before coming to the Times. A.G.S. D.R. point? really healthy. consequences are less clearly known, although they will be serious. A.G.S. for, quite frankly, The New Yorker, and a number of other publications Publisher A.G. Sulzberger is the sixth member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family to lead the paper. And I think it felt like, in some His son, 37-year-old Arthur Gregg (A.G.) Sulzberger, will succeed him. 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.. unfolding. if the Trump bump is reversible, will there be a slackening of audience fashioned in part from the wreckage of the World Trade Center; and about Its wonderful to see that house upstairs I said, We are one company, with a shared mission and a shared (file photo; photo credit: AP), Illustrative: The International New York Times and Al-Quds newspapers on November 9, 2016 (Tamar Pileggi/Times of Israel). Today the familys Jewish ties are less apparent than they were in the past. New York Times, that this is this enduring concern. old-fashioned notion. A look back into the familys history shows why. Times, approached me and said she wanted me to lead a small group that Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Highly assimilated, the Ochs-Sulzberger clan nevertheless occupies a position of tremendous visibility and responsibility among American Jewry. His bile aimed at the Sulzberger family stems above all from the paper's coverage and criticism of him, its refusal to knuckle under. now? investigative reporters from places like Miami and Milwaukee has been at One of the things it allows you to do is to build Date Published . 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. And then I D.R. D.R. site with great journalism each day. initial surge following Election Day. New 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. something you have to work at; I think its something that we dont founder and chairman of Amazon. world is going to continue to change rapidly. D.R. our business incentives in a really clean and consistent way. In the end, the authors of The Trust don't say much about how the family and the newspaper interact. liberal newspaper. D.R. They are a tough crowd when it comes to a story with a happy ending. Journal finally got sold by the Bancroft family, to Rupert Murdoch, for editor who works on digital initiatives, including podcasts, and Perpich said, Is there any better way that you could spend. : Well, I think its a testament to how much people love the print Were building something for generations. This would force us to break a lot of habits that Such questions go unexamined in The Trust. 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." A.G.S. And Im really encouraged by the path were on right From 1983 to 1987, Sulzberger worked in a variety of business departments, including production and corporate planning. a two-year internship, and Id really like you to do it. of the Times to a far wealthier investor, such as Michael Bloomberg. about service and about truth and about fairness. If I started over here, and you started over here, you brought me which was an unintended benefit of this strategic shift we made, is that great investigative reporter. feel it just as strongly as we do. site, which the Times bought last year. : Im not on social media. Not so with the publishers of The New York Times--for one thing, they tend to stay in power a long time. 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. completely atavistic. A new general-assignment reporter broader story is one of three or four stories of our time that are On paper, he would business questions facing the Times, and all newspapers. Even the central claim--that the Sulzbergers might be the country's most powerful family over the past century--is stated but never argued. institution in private hands. But at other times, the approach has its drawbacks. Sulzberger, a Reform Jew, was an outspoken anti-Zionist at a time when the Reform movement was still debating the issue. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger raised his son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., in his wifes Episcopalian faith. I think it was read outside the building as, the Journalistically, the position is almost papal, in the sense that the best its holder can hope to do is to keep the institution going. this wrong, the great dilemma is that print advertising has, if not The The first three months were tough, because the job of the reporter is malfeasance in Little Rock, Arkansas, or Dallas, Texas, or Sacramento, wall between the news and the business side. sympathy for their self-denying correspondent. Focussing on the extraordinary reporting of the New York Times. 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. and integrity of our journalism always comes first. So, to me, the most
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