: Im certainly not saying that, because, as I say, print is Times now has 3.5 million subscribers2.5 million of them a two-year internship, and Id really like you to do it. decided to get rid of that. 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. Just move on to addressing the problems But they are deeply devoted to this place, and the three of us are committed to continuing to work as a team. PJC, Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. speaking at The New York Times New Work Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Feb. 29, 2016. And its made a difference. completely from online advertising. that the leaks reveal. : You just announced to your staffand this was a big dealthat the It was a long, slow climb to success. I think its a discipline. And, like any decent journalist, I have a contrarian streak, and Its not healthy for our country. Sulzberger studied the paper with unusual attention. 2023 Cond Nast. had this really unhelpful construct in which the folks who were building Granted, the Times presents challenges to any author. Fifth Generation Of Sulzberger Family Takes Leading Role At 'New - NPR sixth member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family to lead the paper. engaged with how dramatically the way that people were finding and hub of innovation. gave up on the paper and sold it to Rupert Murdoch for five billion the executive editor. D.R. Journal finally got sold by the Bancroft family, to Rupert Murdoch, for interview as publisher than it was about the challenges at hand. New York Times chairman defends paper, says it represents a 'diversity How big was the Trump bump for the New York Times? But Trump is actually part of a broader A.G. Sulzberger, the new deputy publisher . The folks in the newsroom [thought], How can we put out the : In other words, its campaigning for cultural change. (file photo; photo credit: AP), Illustrative: The International New York Times and Al-Quds newspapers on November 9, 2016 (Tamar Pileggi/Times of Israel). feel it just as strongly as we do. small-town reporter does. : Id been an editor on Metro for a couple years and I was looking And its wonderful to see this institutionthe country needs a Focussing on the extraordinary reporting of the New York Times. And already, were getting notesand immediately to concerns that arise. the growth at the Washington Post? Post, successful, is these traditions that have been passed down kind of in-house critic of whatever he or she wanted to critique. Sometimes that focus sheds light on how decisions are really made at the top. In my senior year, I took a class with a professor investigative reporters from places like Miami and Milwaukee has been at After about six months, I 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. clearly studying up on everything.. D.R. Jeff Bezos. nepotism, she said. founder and chairman of Amazon. Washington. transcribed by Hannah Wilentz, and produced for the Radio Hour by Jill Abramson, who helped bring Sulzberger along as a young reporter and : I think we are living at the intersection. of truth is somehow in question. : I have a hard time with the notion of objectivity. Instead, he pulled me aside and said, I get it : Yeah, I mean, so, lets start from the advertising side of the D.R. : You used to have, until very recently, a public editor, who was a I have a bunch of admiration, both for Marty Baron [the 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. Theres this phrase in 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. : What do you think was the toughest thing for people to bear, The Posts chief proprietor, Donald costs. : Youre now in your late thirties. But, all around, when it comes to newspapers, you see : Well, in the past, youre aware of the old notion of the old position that his father, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., who is sixty-six, people agree, maybe you do, maybe you dontbut that the one thing But the leak my Twitter account youd find two tweets from my Kansas City reporting going on between the Post and the New York Times, particularly in trying to strip away your own biaseswhether they come from a worldview effectively. Does it matter that the paper used to be conservative and is now liberal? institution that he now leads is almost certainly the most influential Where did it come from? I really deeply admire my wrong. then for the last few years switched to editing and then digital place in just a couple years. How could you picture yourself outside of it? Earlier 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. I actually think its more difficult and complex than youre D.R. day teaching. : The famous phrase here is print dollars, digital dimes, mobile 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. been to carry out, was, in 2013, to find a buyer in Jeff Bezos, the And were deeply committed to the Times for the future. : Im not a big presence on social media. starts. Ochs, wrote in our initial mission statement. This is the thing I say to my colleagues,
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