Arthur O. Sulzberger, Publisher Who Transformed The Times, Dies at 86
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who shaped the destiny of The New York Times for 34
years as its publisher and as chairman and chief executive of its parent
company, died Saturday at his home in Southampton, N.Y. He was 86.
His death, after a long illness, was announced by his family.
Mr. Sulzberger guided The Times through a long, sometimes turbulent period of
expansion and change on a scale not seen since the newspaper’s founding in 1851.
The paper he took over as publisher in 1963 was the paper it had been for
decades: respected and influential, often setting the national agenda. But it
was also in precarious financial condition and somewhat insular, having been a
tightly held family operation since 1896, when it was bought by his grandfather,
Adolph S. Ochs.
By the 1990s, when Mr. Sulzberger passed the reins to his son, Arthur Sulzberger
Jr., first as publisher in 1992 and then as chairman of The New York Times
Company in 1997, the enterprise had been transformed. The Times was now national
in scope, distributed from coast to coast, and it had become the heart of a
diversified, multibillion-dollar media operation, which over the years came to
encompass newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations, and online
ventures.
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