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September 30, 2012, Sunday
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FORMER New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who led the newspaper to new levels of influence and profit amid some of the most significant moments in 20th-century journalism, died yesterday. He was 86.
Sulzberger, father of current Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr, died at his home in Southampton, New York, after a long illness, his family announced to the newspaper.
During his three-decade tenure, the newspaper won 31 Pulitzer prizes, published the Pentagon Papers and won a libel case in New York Times vs Sullivan that established important First Amendment protections for the press. The First Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees freedom of the press.
In an era of declining newspaper readership, the Times' weekday circulation climbed from 714,000 when Sulzberger became publisher in 1963 to 1.1 million upon his retirement as publisher in 1992.
Over the same period, the annual revenues of the Times' corporate parent rose from US$100 million to US$1.7 billion.
"Above all, he took the quality of the product up to an entirely new level," the late Katharine Graham, chairwoman of The Washington Post Co, said at the time Sulzberger relinquished the publisher's title.
"Punch" Sulzberger was the only grandson of Adolph S Ochs, the son of Bavarian immigrants who took over the Times in 1896 and built it into the most influential US newspaper. The family retains a controlling interest to this day. Power was thrust on Sulzberger at the age of 37 after the sudden death of his brother-in-law in 1963. But Sulzberger directed the Times' evolution from an encyclopedic paper of record to a more reader-friendly product.
Sulzberger married Barbara Grant in 1948, and the couple had two children, Arthur Jr and Karen. After a divorce in 1956, Sulzberger married Carol Fox.
The couple had a daughter, Cynthia, and Sulzberger adopted Fox's daughter from a previous marriage, Cathy.
Carol Sulzberger died in 1995. The following year, Sulzberger married Allison Cowles.
Sulzberger, father of current Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr, died at his home in Southampton, New York, after a long illness, his family announced to the newspaper.
During his three-decade tenure, the newspaper won 31 Pulitzer prizes, published the Pentagon Papers and won a libel case in New York Times vs Sullivan that established important First Amendment protections for the press. The First Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees freedom of the press.
In an era of declining newspaper readership, the Times' weekday circulation climbed from 714,000 when Sulzberger became publisher in 1963 to 1.1 million upon his retirement as publisher in 1992.
Over the same period, the annual revenues of the Times' corporate parent rose from US$100 million to US$1.7 billion.
"Above all, he took the quality of the product up to an entirely new level," the late Katharine Graham, chairwoman of The Washington Post Co, said at the time Sulzberger relinquished the publisher's title.
"Punch" Sulzberger was the only grandson of Adolph S Ochs, the son of Bavarian immigrants who took over the Times in 1896 and built it into the most influential US newspaper. The family retains a controlling interest to this day. Power was thrust on Sulzberger at the age of 37 after the sudden death of his brother-in-law in 1963. But Sulzberger directed the Times' evolution from an encyclopedic paper of record to a more reader-friendly product.
Sulzberger married Barbara Grant in 1948, and the couple had two children, Arthur Jr and Karen. After a divorce in 1956, Sulzberger married Carol Fox.
The couple had a daughter, Cynthia, and Sulzberger adopted Fox's daughter from a previous marriage, Cathy.
Carol Sulzberger died in 1995. The following year, Sulzberger married Allison Cowles.
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