A.G. Sulzberger, 37, to Take Over as New York Times Publisher
Although the advent of digital media proved a destabilizing force at the company for many years, executives are optimistic
that The Times will bring in at least $800 million in digital revenue by 2020, double what the company earned in 2014.
“But, beginning in the new year, the grand ship that is The Times will be A. G.’s to steer.”
Best known for heading the team that produced The Times’s “innovation report” in 2014, A. G. Sulzberger will be the sixth member of the
Ochs-Sulzberger family to serve as publisher since its patriarch, Adolph S. Ochs, purchased the paper in a bankruptcy sale in 1896.
“He’s not a vocal, stand-on-the-desk, beat-his-chest kind of leader —
but that’s not the only kind of leadership,” Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The Times, said.
Under his leadership, The Times has won 60 Pulitzer Prizes, nearly double the number the paper
was awarded under his father, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who served as publisher for 29 years.
The ascension of the younger Mr. Sulzberger, who is known as A. G., comes just over a year after he was named deputy publisher of The Times.
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