Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

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Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger , often also called Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Sr. (born February 5, 1926 in New York City , † September 29, 2012 in Southampton , Long Island ), was an American publisher . He was editor of The New York Times from 1963 to 1992 .

family

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger was the son of Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1891–1968) and his wife Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger (1892–1990). His father was the editor of the New York Times from 1935 to 1957. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger's maternal grandfather was Adolph Ochs (1858–1935), who bought the newspaper in 1896 and built it up in the following decades.

Sulzberger was married to Barbara Winslow Grant from 1948 to 1956, and the marriage had two children, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. (* 1951) and Karen A. Sulzberger (* 1952). Another son comes from a brief relationship with a journalist. In 1956 Sulzberger married Carol Fox Fuhrman, whose daughter Cathy (* 1949) he adopted and with whom he had another daughter, Cynthia (* 1964). After Carol Sulzberger's death in 1995, he married Allison S. Cowles, the widow of publisher William H. Cowles III , in 1996 .

Life

As a member of the United States Marine Corps , Sulzberger took part in the Pacific War from 1944 , and in 1946 he was released as a corporal . He studied at Columbia University until 1951 , where he earned a bachelor's degree in history and English. From 1951 to 1952 he took part in the Korean War as a public information officer . From 1954 to 1955 he trained in the editorial office of the Milwaukee Journal . This was followed by positions at the New York Times, including in the foreign offices in London, Paris and Rome.

After the death of his brother-in-law Orvil Dryfoos , Sulzberger became the publisher of the New York Times in 1963. Under his leadership, the newspaper was economically restructured through drastic austerity measures and financially secured through the IPO in 1969. Against the resistance of skeptics, he pushed through the introduction of new categories such as local, sport and lifestyle as well as the change from black and white to color.

In 1964, with the newspaper's victory in the New York Times Co. v. Sullivan before the Supreme Court of the United States is a fundamental ruling on press freedom achieved in the United States. In 1971 Sulzberger decided to publish the Pentagon Papers , secret documents of the US Department of Defense, which informed the public of false statements by the government about the Vietnam War and for which the newspaper was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 . The paper received a total of 31 Pulitzer Prizes during Sulzberger's tenure.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger's son Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. succeeded him as editor of the New York Times in 1992 and as president of the Times Company in 1997.

Sulzberger died on September 29, 2012 after a long illness at the age of 86.

Honors

Sulzberger was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1988. The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) honored him with the Katharine Graham Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 for his life's work .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marc Pitzke: "New York Times" legend Sulzberger: The man who taught presidents fear . Mirror online. September 30, 2012. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
  2. ↑ American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 1780–2011 - S (PDF file; 2.1 MB), accessed September 29, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Sulzberger, Arthur Ochs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Punch; Sulzberger, Arthur Ochs Sr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American publisher and editor of the "New York Times"
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 29th September 2012
Place of death Southampton (New York)