Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
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Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. (born 22 September 1951, Mount Kisco, New York) became the publisher of The New York Times in 1992 and chairman of The New York Times Company in 1997. Sulzberger is the son of the previous Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger and grandson of another Times publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger. He is married to artist and journalist Gail Gregg.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Tufts University in 1974. He was a reporter with The Raleigh (N.C.) Times from 1974 to 1976, and a London correspondent for The Associated Press from 1976 to 1978. He joined The New York Times in 1978 as a correspondent in its Washington bureau. He moved to New York as a metro reporter in 1981 and was appointed assistant metro editor later that year.
From 1983 to 1987, he worked in a variety of business departments, including production and corporate planning. In January 1987, he was named assistant publisher and, a year later, deputy publisher, overseeing the news and business departments. In both capacities, he was involved in planning The Times's automated color printing and distribution facilities in Edison, New Jersey, and at College Point in Queens, New York, as well as the creation of the six-section color newspaper.
He played a central role in the development of the Times Square Business Improvement District, officially launched in January 1992, serving as the first chairman of that civic organization. He also helped found and serves as chairman of New York City Outward Bound.
Sulzberger has a son, Arthur Gregg Sulzberger III, and a daughter, Annie Sulzberger, who both attended Brown University in Providence, RI. Arthur Gregg writes for the The Oregonian.
[edit] Trivia
- Attended Outward Bound as a teenager.
- Is a rock climber.
- In January 1993 Sulzberger announced a ten-percent cut in the paper's workforce, bolstering the already extant nickname "Pinch" (which played on his father's nickname "Punch"), used with derisive intent.
