From the most recent interview with NEW YORK TIMES’ Arthur Sulzberger Jr.:
ON COMPETING WITH MURDOCH’S JOURNAL:
“I saw when the Times of London was taken over by Rupert Murdoch.Those newspapers reacted to it and said, ‘We are going to compete against them.’
And the result is: It didn’t help them, because they stopped remembering who they were. We’re not going to.”
ON NEWSPAPERS’ DECLINE:
“At a time when many of our great competitors are cutting back … and don’t have the fine staffs they used to have and don’t have the national staffs that they used to have — and I could continue on — the Times becomes more critical.”ON HOW HE WANTS THE TIMES TO CONSIDER HIM:
“As someone who cares desperately about the mission of The New York Times and its core promise to society.”
The “young Sulzberger” is having a rough time.
Not only as the top manager of the New York Times Company, but also in his personal life.
Last May, after 33 years of marriage, Arthur Sulzberger separated from his wife, Gail Gregg.