A.G. Sulzberger: Leading Change at The New York Times as Journalism Evolves (original) (raw)
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A. G. Sulzberger, an associate editor at The New York Times, was named its deputy publisher on Wednesday.Credit...Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
- Oct. 19, 2016
_[Update:_ A.G. Sulzberger will take over as publisher of The New York Times on Jan. 1, The Times announced on Dec. 14, 2017.]
He had more than 160 bylines as a reporter on the Metro desk and more than 170 in 19 months as a national correspondent based in Kansas City, Mo. But perhaps the most important piece of writing that A. G. Sulzberger did for The New York Times before Wednesday — when he was named deputy publisher — was not an article and was not published in The Times, but was all about The Times.
That work came to be known as the “innovation report.” It zeroed in on the importance of a digital future for the newspaper his family has owned since 1896, and said The Times risked losing its pre-eminent place if it did not make sweeping changes. The report was released in May 2014 after nearly a year of analysis and deliberation by a committee led by Mr. Sulzberger.
Systemic change at The Times was not the committee’s original mandate, said Adam Bryant, a longtime reporter and editor who was on the committee. But he said that Mr. Sulzberger “led the way in saying we’ve got to pivot and change our mission.”
“The ambition of the report was really Arthur’s,” said Mr. Bryant, who is now editorial director of NYT Live, which organizes The Times’s conferences and live events, and the writer of the Corner Office column. “The work we needed to do was bigger, broader, deeper. He stepped back at the right moments to let the team work together and brainstorm, but when he needed to step up and say, ‘We need to turn the wheel and go left instead of right,’ he did.”
Mr. Sulzberger, 36, made the transition to digital strategist after five years as a reporter, national correspondent and assistant editor at The Times, starting on the Metro desk. Since August 2015, he has been an associate editor. He will assume his new responsibilities on Nov. 1.
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