Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr.HONOREE

Arthur Sulzberger Jr. became publisher of The New York Times in 1992 and continues to run the company’s flagship enterprise on a day-to-day basis. Over the past decade, he has shaped and implemented innovative print and online initiatives that are enabling the company to compete successfully in the 21st century global media marketplace.

During Sulzberger’s tenure as publisher, the Times has earned 50 Pulitzer Prizes and provided its readers with innumerable examples of momentous journalism, such as its breakthrough series “How Race Is Lived in America,” and its acclaimed coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in a “A Nation Challenged” and “Portraits of Grief.”

Before coming to the Times, Sulzberger was a reporter with The Raleigh (N.C.) Times from 1974 to 1976, and a London correspondent for The Associated Press from 1976 to 1978. He joined the Times in 1978 as a correspondent in its Washington bureau. He moved to New York as a metro reporter in 1981 and became assistant metro editor that year.

From 1983 to 1987, he worked in a variety of business departments, including production and corporate planning. In January 1987, he was named assistant publisher and, a year later, deputy publisher, overseeing the news and business departments. In both capacities, he was involved in planning the Times’ automated color printing and distribution facilities in New Jersey and Queens, as well as the creation of the six-section color newspaper.

Sulzberger played a central role in the development of the Times Square Business

helped found and is chairman emeritus of the board of New York City Outward Bound.

Sulzberger earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Tufts University. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Program for Management Development.

Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr.President and Chairman

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