Just as Sulzberger’s marriage was unraveling earlier this year (a matter of family discussion for at least six months before it became public), Michael Golden, the only other cousin in a position to run the company, returned to New York from Paris. Sulzberger became the publisher of The New York Times in 1992, and chairman of The New York Times Company in 1997, succeeding his father, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger. [6][30], On December 14, 2017, it was announced that Sulzberger would take over as publisher on January 1, 2018. Significantly, the board of trustees also includes for the first time a member of the fifth generation, Carolyn Greenspon, a 40-year-old social worker who lives in Massachusetts. Today the family’s Jewish ties are less apparent than they were in the past. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who died in 2012, identified as ânominally Jewish, although not at all religious.â He was âmuch more comfortable with his Judaismâ than his father, wrote former Times religion reporter Ari Goldman.
The four siblings had between them thirteen children, a handful of whom—Arthur Sulzberger, Stephen Golden, Michael Golden, and Dan Cohen—became directly involved in the business. His sister is Karen Alden Sulzberger, who is married to author Eric Lax. Today, of course, nothing escapes the pressures of Wall Street, and the tension between the Times’ public trust and the Times’ business is sharper than it’s ever been.
Sulzberger's mother was of mostly English and Scottish origin and his father was of German Jewish origin (both Ashkenazic and Sephardic). While no one accuses the Sulzbergers of ostentation—“We’re not a family into yachts,” one family member told the trust lawyer, Theodore Wagner—they do live off the family money, residing in Upper East Side townhouses or maintaining country homes that wouldn’t normally be afforded by their day jobs. âThere would be no special attention, no special sensitivity, no special pleading,â Leff wrote. People familiar with the family’s trust say it is surprisingly undiversified, with a high proportion in Times stock. It is possible the name you are searching has less than five occurrences per year.
Fantasies about a white-knight businessman who might “save” the Times with a cash infusion abound in the newsroom and in media circles across the city.
“She tried to distance herself from it,” he says. Indeed, the Sulzberger family’s dedication to the Times has been the gold standard among newspaper dynasties over the last 30 years. Mrs. Victoria Dryfoos, daughter of Katie, lives in Martha’s Vineyard and has sought to “promote awareness of … and provide income for Huichol families,” a Native American group in Mexico.
Dolnick’s mother, Lynn Golden, is the great-great-granddaughter of Julius and Bertha Ochs, the parents of Adolph S. Ochs, and was married in a Chattanooga, Tennessee, synagogue named in their memory. It used to be a great paper, and they totally killed it, and he was the guy who took a stand and refused to make those firings and cut and destroy the paper further,” she says of Baquet. He is a fifth-generation descendant of Adolph S. Ochs, who bought the newspaper in 1896 as it was facing bankruptcy. In August, an analyst for Moody’s suggested the company could quickly improve its rating by lowering the high-yield dividend—a report that sent the stock down 6 percent. People who have been involved in those sessions say they’ve never seen family members express criticism or dissent. *Sorry, there was a problem signing you up. The main difference between the two families is that the Bancrofts became disengaged from running the Journal much earlier in the paper’s history; the last family member to hold a senior management role at the company was Hugh Bancroft, who committed suicide in 1933.
“Oh, absolutely,” the 2000–‘07 show’s creator Amy Sherman-Palladino told Vulture during an interview this morning.
I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence. His paternal grandfather was Jewish, and the rest of his family is of Christian background (Episcopalian and Congregationalist). Sulzberger, a Reform Jew, was an outspoken anti-Zionist at a time when the Reform movement still was debating the issue. Free Sign Up.
“All of us—my family and you, our shareholders—have felt the pain of this disruption,” he said in 2007, referring to the Times’ flagging financial fortunes.
âBut they are deeply devoted to this place, and the three of us are committed to continuing to work as a team.â, © 2020 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. speaking at The New York Timesâ New Work Summit in Half Moon Bay, California, February 29, 2016.
But he was conflicted over whether to join the Times or pursue a career in consulting. A college friend from Brown, Dennis Kwan, says Annie was always circumspect about her identity as a Times heiress.
And that family history lives on.