New York Times Names A.G. Sulzberger Deputy Publisher (original) (raw)
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Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, 36, was named the deputy publisher of The Times.Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times
- Oct. 19, 2016
Since 1896, when Adolph S. Ochs bought The New York Times, the Ochs-Sulzberger family has controlled the newspaper. It led the company through two world wars, the publication of the Pentagon Papers, labor strife and severe financial challenges, striving to maintain the paper’s importance even as new forms of media threatened to overtake it.
“The Times,” Arthur Hays Sulzberger said in 1963 when he named his son publisher, “is a family enterprise.”
On Wednesday, The Times continued that tradition, naming Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, a member of the fifth generation of the family, the deputy publisher. The appointment positions him to succeed his father as publisher and chairman of The New York Times Company.
The selection of Mr. Sulzberger, 36, comes at a crucial moment for The Times, converging with a shake-up in the newsroom leadership and the impending release of the so-called 2020 Report, a blueprint for reconfiguring the company for a digital and mobile future. Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The Times, is reviewing a draft of the report and is expected to release it in some form in a matter of weeks.
At the same time, a downsizing of the newsroom looms early next year, stirring anxiety among employees, who are already being instructed to embrace changes in the pace, tone and form of The Times’s journalism.
The competition for the deputy publisher position was closely watched in the newsroom, and the fact that the selection came earlier than expected — the company had said it would happen by next May — will most likely be interpreted as further evidence that the pace of change is quickening.
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