‘He doesn’t like bullies’: The 37-year-old who took over the New York Times and is taking on Trump
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Former New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger jnr in 1997.
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Sulzberger, who uses “A.G.” on the Times masthead but is widely known as “Arthur,” was born to journalists in Washington, D.C., in August 1980. His father, future Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger jnr, was a reporter in the paper’s Washington bureau, and his mother, Gail Gregg, was a reporter at the Congressional Quarterly.
Sulzberger, who declined through a Times spokesperson to comment for this article, went to high school in Central Park West, at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, whose founder Felix Adler wanted graduates to change the world by focusing on “moral ideals”. At Brown University, Sulzberger majored in political science and, in his senior year, took an advanced feature writing class taught by journalist Tracy Breton, who worked at the Providence Journal. Sulzberger excelled in the course but was ambivalent about devoting his life to journalism.
After working for the Journal and the Oregonian, he was hesitant to move to the family newspaper.
“I think it was a very hard decision for him,” says Breton. “I think he also felt like he was needed back in New York, and he had paid his dues, but I don’t think he ever assumed the [publisher] job was going to be his.”
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