born Feb. 5, 1926, New York, N.Y., U.S.
U.S. newspaper publisher.
Grandson of Adolph Ochs and son of Iphigene and Arthur Hays Sulzberger , he spent a dozen years as a reporter and in other newspaper posts before becoming publisher of The New York Times in 1963. During his tenure he introduced many innovations that strengthened the paper's reputation while modernizing and streamlining the organization of its staff, including the unification of the daily Times with the Sunday edition in 1964 and an increase in coverage of fields such as economics, the environment, medicine, law, and science. In 1992 he was succeeded by his son, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. (b. 1951).