Journalism’s ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Quotes
The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.
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| Birth: | 5th February, 1926 |
| Death: | 29th September, 2012 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Businessman, Publisher |
About
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger was born in New York City. He was an American publisher and businessman. Born into a prominent media and publishing family, he became publisher of The New York Times and chairman of the board of The New York Times Company in 1963. He earned a B.A. degree in English and History in 1951 at Columbia University. In the 1960s Sulzberger built a large news-gathering staff at The Times, and was publisher when the newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for publishing The Pentagon Papers. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1988. In 2005, the Newspaper Association of America honored Sulzberger with the Katharine Graham Lifetime Achievement Award.
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