Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
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Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger or often called Arthur Sulzberger Jr. (b. February 5, 1926 New York City) is an American publisher and businessman. He was the publisher and president of the New York Times from 1963 to 1992.
Sulzberger served as an enlisted soldier in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, from 1944 to 1946, in the Pacific theatre. He earned a B.A. degree in English and History in 1951 at Columbia University. Upon graduation, he was recalled to active duty (he was in the Marine Corps Reserve) because of the Korean War. Following completion of officer training, he saw duty in Korea and then in Washington, D.C., before being inactivated.
He became publisher of The Times in 1963, after the death of his uncle, Orville Dryfoos. 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 is the son of Arthur Hays Sulzberger, a previous publisher of The New York Times. His son Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. succeeded him as the newspaper's publisher in 1992. Sulzberger remained chairman of The New York Times Company until October 1997.
In 2005, the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) honored Sulzberger with the Katharine Graham Lifetime Achievement Award.
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- Behind the Times: Inside the New New York Times, by Edwin Diamond. Villard Books.
- The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times, by Alex S. Jones, Susan E. Tifft. Back Bay Books (2000), ISBN 0316836311.de:Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
