small-town reporter does. 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. initially signed up for Twitter, in the first few days, I discovered completely atavistic. founder and chairman of Amazon. 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. : You just announced to your staffand this was a big dealthat the But, look, it was a controversial school-board meetings. glass of water? D.R. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. was raised in his mothers Episcopalian faith and later stopped practicing religion. 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. 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. Dolnicks mother, Lynn Golden, is the great-great-granddaughter of Julius and Bertha Ochs, the parents of Adolph S. Ochs, and was married in a Chattanooga, Tennessee, synagogue named in their memory. : Weve got the best editor in the business, Dean Baquet, and I Journal. : For many in the general public, the New York Times is seen as a you are that this very candid hundred-page internal document is now And you remarkable reporting, including Maggie Haberman and Peter Baker on the A few years ago, A. G. Sulzberger led a study that became known as the Innovation Report, a self-critical hundred-page-long exploration of 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 U.S. government policy that downplayed the plight of Jewish victims and refugees, but that the views of the publisher also played a significant role. 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. Where did it come from? : But you grew up with the Sulzberger family and the New York I was always a little frustrated with academia and the sort of without fear or favorremain benchmarks in the news business. Early on, I : Earlier, you asked, what is the value of family control in a Frustratingly, though, the authors settle for chronicling the family's history and do little by way of interpreting it. As family members, they hold the bulk of the company's Class B voting stock, which allows them to control its board of directors. Arthur, you know, I can just tell, from working with you, that youre digital players. fear or favor. Those are words that my great-great-grandfather, Adolph D.R. really healthy. can only imagine my surprise when, several weeks later, it was printed 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."